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NASA: Wide Range Of Alien Planets May Support Life
Life may be able to survive on a broader set of alien worlds than astronomers had thought, a new study suggests.
Researchers have created a new online tool called the “Habitable Zone Gallery,” which looks at every known exoplanetary system and determines that just-right range of distances from the host star where liquid water could exist. The upshot is that scientists might not need to pin their hopes for alien life on a planet like Earth, whose circular orbit keeps it in the middle of the habitable zone all the time.
Large numbers of alien planets on eccentric, highlyelliptical orbits likely dip into the habitable zone now and again, bringing them brief periods of benign conditions, scientists said. And research here on Earth shows that life can survive big swings between hot and cold, wet and dry.
“Some organisms can basically drop their metabolism to zero to survive very long-lasting, cold conditions,” lead author Stephen Kane, of NASA’s Exoplanet Science Institute at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, said in a statement. [Extremophiles: World's Weirdest Life]
Read more here at: http://www.etupdates.com/2012/09/18/nasa-wide-range-of-alien-planets-may-support-life/
It is very exciting that the possibility of life on other planets, or moons of those planets, is being explored and looked at with open-minds more than ever before. Science has come a long way in being able to observe these remote worlds and use the information they gather to start evaluating whether or not life really has a chance to sustain itself there. These findings are enlightening and encourging to those just waiting for life to be found outside of this world.
~Ophelia
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