Moons orbiting extrasolar planets may very well hold life, astronomers believe. That is why they are currently expanding their search for extraterrestrial intelligence to include exomoons, given that these celestial bodies are located at the right distance from their parent planets and their stars.
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5 January 2012
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The American space agency has a very broad agenda for its astrobiology programs, but recently its scope grew even more, after eight research projects were selected for further development under the Astrobiology Science and Technology for Instrument Development (ASTID) program.
As a general rule, all instruments th... |
21 September 2011
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Rather than trying so hard to discover Earth-analogs among the thousands of proposed extrasolar planets telescopes are bound to discover, astrobiologists should focus their efforts on extrasolar moons, which may be primed candidate locations to allow for the existence of life. Exomoons can be found in orbit around ex... |
21 June 2011
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According to the results of a new supercomputer simulation, it would appear that many extrasolar planets have exomoons in their orbit. In fact, more than a quarter of them might have companions. These results come from one of the most interesting and comprehensive models of exoplanets developed to date. The discovery... |
10 June 2011
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In a new research, experts demonstrated that it is possible to measure the mass of an star, as long as it has at least one exoplanet with at least one exomoon orbiting it, and if the two orbiting bodies are perfectly aligned. The new method promises to allow astrophysicists to reach an objective that has been resea... |
18 October 2010
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Exoplanetary studies are a relatively new area of astronomy, having been set up only some years ago. But they have already produced viable results, and discovered more than 400 planets outside of our solar system. This was all achieved by using existing technologies, so experts say that the field will advance even mo... |
3 March 2010
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In James Cameron's new fantasy movie Avatar, a private corporation conducts an off-world strip mining operation on the exomoon Pandora. The script places this world around a massive gas giant located in the Alpha Centauri system, which is a real star system some 4.4 light-years away from Earth. But space analyst... |
30 January 2010
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Most of the astronomical community today is keeping its eyes focused on the goal of finding Earth-like planets on the desired orbits around their parent stars, in systems thousands of light-years away. But a new group inside the community is arguing that a habitable world may also be identified in a moon circling a J... |
2 December 2009
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