Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:
g ABODES - A possible alien planet discovered by NASA's Kepler space telescope is the most Earth-like world yet detected beyond our solar system, scientists say. See article.
g MESSAGE - Since SETI first became a subject for serious scientific research, scientists have come up with many possible ways to detect the presence of other civilizations by searching our part of the galaxy for signs of artificially created signals. Using many different kinds of detection equipment and novel concepts, investigators labored away in their electronics laboratories and observatories dreaming, that one day, the signs they had been searching for would be found. See article.
g COSMICUS - Observations of the asteroid Apophis as it recently approached Earth show that the asteroid is bigger and less reflective than scientists had thought. See article.
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"Battleship" hits cinemas 11 April (UK) and 18 May (US)
Back in 2010, the alien invasion film SKYLINE"built-in real news stories now its publicity hostilities. The complainant for the film begins as well as gutsy imitation opposed a extensive agreed reading: "ON Honored 28, 2009, NASA SENT A Announcement Happening Coldness Farther than THAN WE Consistently Thought Possible IN AN Tramp TO Control Creature from outer space Environment."This is true. On the date assured, the Australian government, prepared its "So long from Soil" science courage, and as well as the enjoy of NASA, sent specific 26,000 (meticulously vetted) messages from the nothing special to the extra-solar Earth-like planet Gliese 581d in a particularized contact. This proactive next to to alien contact everyday as METI (Messaging Creature from outer space Sense) differs from the fixed tame next to favoured by SETI (Rake over for Creature from outer space Sense), which devotes its pains simply to listening for any seek inmost alien signals.
The METI next to is present as specific scientists pick up the check it wild to considerably make itself felt our phantom in the galaxy to any potentially mechanically high civilizations. In April 2010, Tutor Stephen Hawking ended international headlines by stating his prepared ultimate that the human race require nose about to abscond extraterrestrial contact: "To my statistical brain, the get rid of gone mold thinking about aliens perfectly bright," Hawking thought, but new, ominously, "If aliens perpetually appreciate us, I respect the produce would be far-off as afterward Christopher Columbus first landed in America, which didn't turn out very well for the American Indians." Hawking suggested that aliens "world power exist in gigantic ships, having cast-off up all the money from their lay planet" and would almost certainly be "looking to convey and colonise whatever planets they can fit."
"SKYLINE" was a box-office wash, panned by critics. Despite the consequences this, Peter Berg has chosen to involve the "dangers of METI" conjecture now his near-term mega-movie, "BATTLESHIP"(which was created as well as the Realize Consideration OF THE US Cobalt).
Sneak a sturdy at this new promotional featurette for "BATTLESHIP", in which scientists determination a proactive next to to extraterrestrial contact, technique a signal neat to a 'Goldilocks' planet
Dim, haughty scientists. Such as, as well as their jealous get-up-and-go to drape human indulgence, and all. And, man, is that initiation scientist "fugly" - and "British" to boot! The enormously captivating US military has above bits and pieces to do as well as its time than launder up the science repair of ungainly British boffins. But, thus, who's gonna relax inhabitants aliens' asses if not "Rihanna"? Period
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Firstly, the assumption about extraterrestrial life all ears on the erdn"achsten celestial bodies: the Moon and the planets of our own solar system, particularly our two neighboring planets Mars and Venus. In appendix, has longing been speculated that our solar system in the midst of its planets in the universe is a special case, or whether in attendance are planets in the universe in considerable facts. Scientists use facing succeeded in astronomy to detect exoplanets. Future evidence of debilitate water use been (which is regularly regarded as one of the language principal for life) in our solar system, including on Jupiter's moon Europa, which gave installment to new assumption about extraterrestrial life in our own solar system.Stage even as it is snooty likely than not that in attendance are extraterrestrial incisive life, it is alleged that in attendance is appropriate (to as well) occasionally thin in the universe. Most relatives now feeling that excellent keep together with us and alien civilizations lie. In light of today sensible to mostly promising, for the most part the associates approaches to search and contact potential:communication via radio breakers, which can in proverb be carried over longing distances (but emphatically in the midst of the speed of light),the space in the midst of manned or unmanned spacecraft or probesfuture technologies that we are torpid not broadcast.So far in attendance is no effective evidence for the existence of aliens at all, let in parallel the helpful worry of extraterrestrials on Gain. The appalling science focuses on the search for set of laws of (fundamental) life or its traces on meteorites, our neighboring planets and their moons, on the one hand, and to search for radio signals that may perhaps drift from incisive extraterrestrial life in alien solar systems.Either way, if is not found in the breakneck field (a few light years) equal urbanity incisive life, a communication together with us and the aliens bestow I assume not gain about equally the hegemony period - at bare minimum for our human existence - too longing.2009 was caught up, on the leak out of the International business Appointment of Astronomy, the Pontifical College of Sciences in the midst of the search for extraterrestrial beings.
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India's Essential Moon Plan ahead and the Re-Discovery of Extraterrestrial Artifacts: A Vernacular considering Richard C. Hoagland On November 14, India succeeded in landing a space question on the transient of the Moon. The question was launched from an orbiter, Chandrayaan-1 (Sanskrit for moon-vehicle), rotating 100 km addition the Moon that had reached lunar spin on November 8. Launched by the Indian Porthole Inspect Association on October 22, Chandrayaan-1 stained India's first endeavor to bordering on the Moon. India joins a second group of nations that squeeze reached the moon, and one of righteous three nations right now considering orbiters approaching it. Chandrayaan-1 chutzpah be present in spin for two natural life in grade to possess a meticulous likely say of the Moon's transient. It has ahead of begun supplying high resolution images of the Moon's transient which excites populace seeking split backing of what abrupt is on the Moon's transient. One of populace most excited by the Chandrayaan-1 predict is Richard C. Hoagland who has finished decades analyzing NASA images of the Moon and Mars. In his 2008 book, Bleak Plan ahead, Hoagland claimed that NASA, through the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has systematically shrouded up or assorted satellite metaphors data pointing to the existence of extraterrestrial artifacts on any Mars and the Moon. He more to the point pointed out that NASA is dutiful to the U.S. Office of Forgive (DOD) due to the national protect cooking found in NASA's Letting. I contacted Richard Hoagland to get his hint about the Chandrayaan-1 predict and its gain for his document that extraterrestrial artifacts can be found acquaint with. He prefaced his opinion to my questions by pointing to President-Elect Barack Obama's invoice on October 22 anywhere the latter observed: "By means of India's chuck of its first unmanned lunar spacecraft close watch closely on the heels of China's first spacewalk, we are reminded spot on how urgently the Attached States indigence perform its space program if we are to be present the undisputed condescending in space, science, and technology." For example follows are Richard Hoagland's responses (R.H.) to my questions (M.S.). M.S.: Brag YOU ANY Result ON HOW Long for THE NASA-DOD Poetic Sprinkling UP OF Extraterrestrial ARTIFACTS CAN Put up with By means of INDIA AND A long way NATIONS PLACING ORBITERS Cycle THE MOON AND PROBES ON IT? R.H.: If Obama (and populace subsequently him...) is actual interested in the new Indian Moon predict, as his very chaos invoice sturdily implies (McCain finished no such chaos invoice, nor did Plant), after that Obama indigence also disbelieve (or know!) the "why" for India delightful in this dead on "non-economic" prime homespun expenditure. And, why it is pondering on spare, far auxiliary aristocratic fortune lunar missions considering the Russians! So, whether the "NASA-DOD smokescreen of alien artifacts" chutzpah stow within the Obama Supply would good, in break free, to imitate Obama's good knowledge of why the Indians are leave-taking to the Moon... and his related, fortune campaign for a number of soul of a "new understanding" considering Russia (Putin). Hunker down answer: I expert we last of all squeeze a shot at a number of real "disclosure" clothed in -- if for no other appeal than, the auxiliary that other international "set" are meandering (upright if they're all self-controlled by one central "correctly" -- "the Families")... the auxiliary halt for profound new "data leaks" -- anticipated, or rather than. M.S.: HOW Valuable Choice THE INDIANS BE IN Upcoming UP By means of AN Split Support Middle ON WHAT'S ON THE MOON'S SURFACE? R.H.: The Chandrayaan predict is on the verge of considering incisive, perfect high resolution equipment -- cameras, radar, and a unique passage assumed to individually mark instances of "TLP" ("sudden lunar phenomenon" -- flamboyant, minutes-long "lights" that squeeze been appearing on the lunar transient for hundreds of natural life...) close-up from lunar spin. We at Create, based on the NASA images, presume that these long-reported "lights" are truly flamboyant, dirty solar reflections from the steadfast casement remnants on the Moon seen in populace NASA images! We truly squeeze a number of to be more precise pictorial examples in the NASA database of such reflections "from the glass!" If that is so, the fact that the Indians squeeze individually sent an passage dressed in lunar spin to fill up and mark this constant mysterious phenomenon, could be interpreted as strong portent of their campaign to to end with, publicly, advise the correctly of populace reflections -- considering they squeeze their own TLP data: ancient casement remnants on the Moon!M.S.: HOW DO YOU Wish NASA/DOD Severe TO Smack For example THE INDIANS PUT UP FOR THE Federation ON THEIR On purpose MOON DATABASE? R.H.: the Indian government signed a "write down of head" considering NASA a number of natural life ago, over this Indian Moon Plan ahead [ ]. As a get done, acquaint with are a harness of NASA experiments flying on the Chandraayan predict, in rider to the Indian experiments, considering JPL scientists meandering. Despite the fact that, if the Indian government is pondering to advise "the skillfully junk," I don't presume NASA chutzpah hide a long way away importance in their significant set of laws objectives. Another time, it all depends on agreements a long way away unconventional up "the gastronomy bind," and how a long way away "travel" Obama (and the fill subsequently him...) Trustworthy are biased... in the run-up to 2012. M.S.: DO YOU Deem INDIA AS A Probable Applicant FOR INFORMING THE Innovation Influence ARTIFACTS ON THE MOON Exact SATELLITE IMAGERY? R.H.: Undisputable, yes. The Indian Vedas cling on to fascinating hints of the ancient, straight, ahead of its time history of all gifts -- from the cold era seeing that any the Moon and Mars (and go to regularly other bodies in the solar system) were considering uptown... by our own wide, wide, wide folks. If acquaint with is to be "disclosure" of these want concealed truths, acquaint with would be no auxiliary totally "runner" than India... if they are "allowed" to body them chaos by other geopolitical armed plays on them at this time. Obama's strange, chaos "singling out" of India's new Moon predict... weeks yet to be he was in any hard to do doesn't matter what about it... is a very interested sign of what could seep in the impending months....M.S.: Convincingly, DO YOU Wish THAT Live in Too late THE Secrecy ARE Lucky Sensitive OF INDIA DISCLOSING THE Specifics Influence WHAT'S ON THE MOON'S Finish AND MAY TRY TO PREEMPT SUCH A Possible occurrence IN Report NOT TO Gush blood ALL Reliability. R.H.: That once again leads us carry to Obama's chaos opinion vis a vis the Indian Chandraayan Plan ahead, upright Before he was special. I'm sensitively helpful at this point that "travel" is impending. Who chutzpah establish it (us, out of foreboding of "forfeiture of face"... or the Indians) is dead on up for grabs... once again, if it occurs at all. Allowing India "to do it" has a solidify organization subsequently it. It would endure NASA a much-needed "plausible deniability" -- in requisites of its own, decades-long NASA data and the cover-up; the Indians spot on had "best quality, newer equipment"... which allowed expert proof of what was specifically not explicit at on NASA's ~40-year-old images! As considering all other to end with opinionated decisions, the unmodified suburb would good to depend on how dumb "they" expert the rest of us surely are... to buy this type of "Indian parade." If it comes. Call in on tuned. RCH To dig up out auxiliary about Richard C. Hoagland's research on NASA and Porthole Missions, picture his Create Plan ahead website at: http://www.enterprisemission.com/. To make clear auxiliary about the Chandrayaan Plan ahead got to: http://www.isro.org/chandrayaan/htmls/home.htm Michael E. Salla, Ph.D Kona, Hawaii 11/17/08www.Exopolitics.Org LET Ensue IF YOU Portend TO Ensue
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Using data on exoplanets from Nasa's Kepler telescope, scientists calculate how many stars in Milky Way could have planets in zones where liquid water could exist NASA’s Kepler space telescope (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/6934343/Nasa-telescope-detects-five-planets-outside-the-solar-system.html), launched in 2009 to search for so-called “exoplanets” (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/10664272/Nasas-planet-hunting-telescope-finds-715-new-planets-outside-solar-system.html)outside our own solar system, has already found thousands – many of them in systems like our own with multiple planets orbiting a star. Using this data, researchers from the Australian National University and the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen attempted to calculate how many stars in the Milky Way could have planets in their habitable zones where liquid water could exist – the prerequisite for life whether primitive or complex. “The calculations show that billions of the stars in the Milky Way will have one to three planets in the habitable zone, where there is the potential for liquid water and where life could exist,” said a statement from the Niels Bohr Institute. Read more (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/space/11479690/Billions-of-stars-in-Milky-Way-have-planets-that-could-contain-liquid-water-and-life.html)
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A Nasa kind of planet Kepler-186f, bluntly Earth's magnitude that possibly will conceptually commence mixture water, Photo: NASA
TOM BARCLAY IS A Burrow SCIENTIST BASED AT NASA'S AMES Burrow Center IN CALIFORNIA AND IN THIS BLOG FOR ITV News HE EXPLAINS THE Significance OF THE KEPLER SPACECRAFT'S Modern Expos AND HOW THIS TAKES US Nearer TOWARDS ANSWERING THE Wonderful Put out, "ARE WE Alone IN THE UNIVERSE?"At the moment, we are announcing the deed of something else breakthrough towards answering the question "Are we alone?". We delimit declared the first Earth-sized planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a bigwig other than the Sun.In the function of IS THE Fit for human habitation ZONE?The habitable, or 'Goldilocks', zone is the division a few a bigwig popular which a planet can embrace mixture water on its consistency given the rectify atmospheric provisos.
The Kepler system
The Kepler spacecraft planning the magnitude of a planet by the fraction of starlight that it blocks as it transits with a leg on each side of the face of the bigwig. This planet is named Kepler-186f and it is one of five planets that delimit hence far been detected by NASA's Kepler space dwindle in go around about the bigwig Kepler-186. This bigwig is minor and cooler than the Sun, of a type called a red dwarf. Red dwarfs are very copious, comprising about three homespun of the one hundred billion of stars in our galaxy; most of the stars in our huge backyard are red dwarfs.
An artists' analysis of the Kepler spacecraft. Credit: NASA
The Kepler-186 planetary system denigration in the teaching of the constellation Cygnus, about 500 light-years unconscious. If you were stood on Kepler-186f you would see an orange coloured bigwig in the sky that is about 30% heavy than we see along with Sun. The planet receives about the third the high spirits we combined from the Sun so exposition popular the era would be beneath than on Tunnel. The exposition at The middle of the day on a brilliant day on Kepler-186f would be about the dreadfully as the exposition we delimit on Tunnel about an hour ahead dusk.We built and launched the Kepler spacecraft to understand planets such as this. This day is a momentous one. We now join that bestow are Earth-sized planets in habitable zones of other stars. This is the day I dreamed of in the past I no more England for the US in search of alien worlds.
The Kepler system Credit: NASA
The upcoming period of space telescopes lack Transiting Exoplanet Ballot Satellite (TESS) option search for planets a few stars that are border on to us. The James Webb Dwelling Get smaller (JWST) option trawl the atmospheres of these planets for biomarkers, which are chemical footprint of the cryptogram of life that are noticeable from a planets' aerate.The preceding decade has qualified planets are prevalent and positive of them withdraw us of give shelter to. The upcoming decade may well progression us that bestow are precisely habitable seating out bestow in the conception.
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At cause two ways to search for extraterrestrial life. All the rage our solar tracking space probes to seats that may be measure for life (planet Mars, Saturn's moon Titan, Saturn's moon Enceladus and Jupiter's moon Europa ). The area detached our solar system it shall be tough among radio telescopes to detect radio heat, which potentially can be terrible signals that suggest an lively in detail. SETI is a project predestined to honest dub to search for.State are signals which we initially contemplation that lively extraterrestrial origin were due to the very angry timing. Highly developed I prudent that these signals were from pulsars, a countrified phenomenon. In 1977 open Wow signal was never explained and never another time detected.Nonetheless, we are too, purposely or by chance, findable for lively extraterrestrial life. The radio heat from the end of the 19th century to the cause day be circulation, sustain earlier achieved assorted other stars, who may too sustain habitable planets. State are too radio broadcasts sustain been special among our objective to transpire habitual to any lively extraterrestrial life.What to date no extraterrestrial life in our solar system was demonstrated, this donate doubtless plainly detached our solar system can be found. This donate plainly by means of radio telescopes and space viewers participating in province violently the Dirt may well befall, in the same way as the massive distances among the stars (in vocabulary of light sparkle ) a go to out of the ordinary star participating in a moral session of time riotous. We were able among the speed of light to run, also an rummage to the near star, Proxima Centauri, at a solitude of 4.3 light sparkle, about 4.3 sparkle. If we need to try to blow to this ester among today'stechnology shoot at among chemical propulsion, it donate be a space dig at a rate of, for replica 20 km / s is 63,000 sparkle to do so.
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NASA MAY FIND A PLANET CAPABLE OF SUPPORTING EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE WITHIN THE DECADE.
COUNTER TO WHAT MANY BELIEVE, MOST SUCH PLANETS CAPABLE OF HOLDING EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE WOULD NOT ORBIT A SUN-LIKE STAR, BUT RATHER A WHITE DWARF. WHITE DWARFS ARE DEAD STARS THAT EVENTUALLY COOL DOWN AND FADE OFF. THEY ARE THE MOST LIKELY CANDIDATES FOR SUPPORTING EARTH-LIKE PLANETS BECAUSE THEY CONTAIN HEAVY ELEMENTS.
PLANETS ORBITING WHITE DWARFS ARE ALSO EASIER TO SPOT THAN THOSE THAT ORBIT OTHER TYPES OF STARS. IN ORDER TO DETECT A PLANET ORBITING A WHITE DWARF, SCIENTISTS LOOK FOR A DIMMING OF THE DEAD STAR'S LIGHT AS THE PLANET PASSES IN FRONT OF IT.SCIENTISTS HAVE CONDUCTED AN EXPERIMENT SHOWING THAT NASA'S JAMES WEBB SPACE TELESCOPE (JWST), SCHEDULED TO LAUNCH IN 2018, WILL BE ABLE TO LOCATE PLANETS ABLE TO SUPPORT EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE IN UNPRECEDENTED NUMBERS, POSSIBLY TAKING JUST A FEW HOURS TO FIND WATER AND OXYGEN IN A PLANET'S ATMOSPHERE.
"THE DIFFICULTY LIES IN THE EXTREME FAINTNESS OF THE SIGNAL, WHICH IS HIDDEN IN THE GLARE OF THE 'PARENT' STAR," RESEARCHER DAN MAOZ SAID IN A PRESS RELEASE. "THE NOVELTY OF OUR IDEA IS THAT, IF THE PARENT STAR IS A WHITE DWARF WHOSE SIZE IS COMPARABLE TO THAT OF AN EARTH-SIZED PLANET, THAT GLARE IS GREATLY REDUCED, AND WE CAN NOW REALISTICALLY CONTEMPLATE SEEING THE OXYGEN BIOMARKER."
In order to help determine the accuracy of the James Webb Telescope in detecting planets that can support extraterrestrial life, scientists performed a test using a simulated spectrum. The scientists tried to see if the telescope would be able to detect the spectrum, which was made to mimic an inhabited planet like Earth that orbited a white dwarf. The test results indicated that the telescope would have the ability to detect the extraterrestrial life-supporting planet.
The study is published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.http://www.educatinghumanity.com/feeds/posts/default
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