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Two Alien Planets With ‘Endless Oceans’ –”Unlike anything in our Solar System”

Monday, July 22, 2013 1:44
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“These planets are unlike anything in our solar system. They have endless oceans,” said lead author Lisa Kaltenegger of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and the CfA.
 
 “There may be life there, but could it be technology-based like ours? Life on these worlds would be under water with no easy access to metals, to electricity, or fire for metallurgy.
 
 Nonetheless, these worlds will still be beautiful, blue planets circling an orange star — and maybe life’s inventiveness to get to a technology stage will surprise us.”
 
Image Credit: http://www.123rf.com/photo_2492232_nebula-reflecting-on-the-ocean-of-an-alien-water-world.html
 
Kaltenegger and Sasselov’s research has been accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal.
 
The Daily Galaxy 
 
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