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Presence of gas on exoplanet 'only produced by life'

by teucris on 5/1/24, 5:05 PM with 6 comments

  • by jepler on 5/2/24, 12:23 AM

    Exciting: the possibility of alien life

    Also exciting: Our ability to observe exoplanets, and our scientists efforts to create models that glean useful information from those observations.

    From what I can glean in some short searching, the "signal" for the presence of dimethyl sulfide is relatively weak (2.2σ per the paper's abstract), and depends on assumptions about the planet's overall atmosphere that might or might not turn out to be unwarranted.

  • by aaronblohowiak on 5/2/24, 12:07 AM

    Are there new findings or is this like we discussed several months ago?
  • by riffic on 5/1/24, 11:51 PM

    we are not alone

    I want to believe