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has just discovered a planet like Earth known as Kepler-186f, named after the telescope that found it, the Kepler. This discovery raises the possibility that a large number of planets like earth are waiting to be found, maybe much closer to Earth. One astronomer says that this is a tip of the iceberg discovery! Another says that it is a historic discovery of an Earth-like planet in a perfect spot around its star. Nasa says that future missions will study whether which planets are life friendly…

universe. Much of the research relates to investigations in the laboratory relating to synthetic biology and how it can lead to better understanding of alien life in other planets outside the solar system. The most interesting idea is Sasselov’s claim that super-earths have better chances of harboring life than earth-sized planets. Personally, I have been interested in studies that relate to investigations about alien life. Sasselov writes that lab tests here on earth could provide important…

Aaminah Azhar Astrobiology Spring 2015 Test 1 1. Name and describe five important steps in the formation of planets based on our current scientific understanding. a) Star and planet formation starts inside a collapsing cloud of gas and dust inside a bigger cloud called a nebula. Because of gravity pulling materials in the collapsing cloud closer together, the center of the cloud gets increasingly more compressed and because of this get hotter. The dense hot core of this collapsing cloud becomes…

is always looking for a new way to expand our great species. Recently, an entire other planet has been an option. The question is… which one? Mars is the best option in our solar system. But there is still a lot to do before Mars is inhabitable to all humans. Solar energy can be gathered for electrical purposes. Traces of water can be found. Plants inside greenhouses help with greenification of the sand planet. All solutions to the issues found on Mars. Slowly, from the first human colonists to…

The eighth planet, Neptune, is surprisingly dynamic. With many thinking Uranus could be its twin, the real facts of Neptune are lost. Neptune has unique amount of moons, rings, temperature, gases, and also unique name. Neptune was discovered in the 1800s due to astronomers observing Uranus. Uranus’s placement wasn't exactly where they thought it was. They determined that there was another planet’s gravity pulling on Uranus. On September 23, 1846, the newly discovered planet was named after the…

save mankind from the swelling of the sun. But without the funding scientists at NASA and SETI cannot search for planets in this zone. So without being able to search for these planets humanity will lose its second home because the sun is already halfway throughout its life time. The habitable zone, which is often called the Goldilocks zone, is the zone around a star “at which a rocky planet can maintain…

Barbara Science Line. In other words, there are so many planets that, theoretically, it would be possible to count them but because to their number this task seems more like impassible. That is a big intrigue; presumably, in the universe can be uncountable number of planets similar to our planet in many ways, such as natural resources, pure water, appropriate temperature, and the others features. Otherwise, humanity has a marvelous blue planet, Earth, so why it is important and trillions of…

governments, including the United States government, spend billions of dollars on space programs to explore the solar system, the planet Mars in particular. As our earth develops into a planetary, polluted waste, Mars could eventually become our new home. Scientists believe Mars sustained or could sustain life, yet, they still can't uncover what lies beyond our planet. Perhaps Earthly humans aren't the only intellectual organisms that inhabit the universe. Most Christians believe that God…

that the entire world lives on the planet Mars. “Mars is only about one-half the diameter on Earth, but both planets have roughly the same amount of dry land surface area, and both planets share some similar elements” according to phoenix.edu (2010). There are many similarities between both planets which are Earth and Mars such as the prospects for generating food, oxygen, and there are places that are appropriate for building. In addition, Mars is the best planet for living because of many…

Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to study all four of the solar system's giant planets up close. It is now exploring the solar wind and the sun's magnetic field dominate space but on September 2007 it crossed the termination shock it's where the speed of the solar wind drops below the speed of sound at 84 au twice the distance to Pluto. The purpose was to study huge planets, but now its to study solar wind. Voyager 2 was designed to take advantage of a rare planetary alignment to explore the…