scientists have developed an insane technology that will blow your mind and probably the minds
of aliens settled on exoplanets or their moons just kidding what scientists have developed
is a laser technology that could detect life on other planets shoot for the moon no we will shoot
for the stars welcome to lab 360. it's time to explore this amazing new technology could detect
extraterrestrial life in outer space speeding up decades long quest to find life on Far Away moons
and planets the nasa-backed research conducted at the University of Maryland shows that the Laser
Technology could potentially identify signs of life and analyze materials from other planets
geologists have hailed this technology saying that the good thing about the Laser Source is
that anything that can be ionized can be analyzed meaning if we shoot the laser beam at a nice
sample scientists would be able to characterize the composition of the ice and see bio signatures
in it and not just that this tool has such a high mass resolution and accuracy that any molecular
or chemical structures in a sample become much more identifiable but for the technology to work
successfully on board of spacecraft it had to be shrunken down from 400 pounds to just 17 pounds
because the orbit trap was originally built for commercial use they were quite large and hence
not feasible for use in space after spending eight years on building the Prototype which is
significantly smaller and less resource intensive but still capable of cutting-edge science the hope
is that this system will detect and confirm alien life as indicated by complex compounds
previously scientists have used different methods to identify life elsewhere in our
galaxy such as looking for traces of methane or detecting radio energy as far as radio signals
go the strongest candidate ever discovered for an extraterrestrial radio signal is the wow signal
detected in 1977. since then scientists have discovered several fast radio bursts or frbs
but none come close to be as significant as the wow signal however with the discovery of several
exoplanets that lie in the habitable zone of its star physicists now know where to look for signs
of life and the new year has started with a bang for the search of Earth-like habitable exoplanets
yes scientists have discovered a world which is 95 the size of Earth and it is a rocky planet and
to make the discovery sweeter NASA says that the planet may also contain liquid water as it lies in
the habitable's own of its star but how far is the planet that is the more important question
here and as it turns out the planet is not that far at all in Cosmic terms it is just a block away
from us the planet called toi 700de is the fourth planet discovered in the toi system which is only
100 light years away the other planets in this system have been named toi b c and d which were
found in the first year of Tessa's observation the composition of planets B and D is more likely
Rocky and the composition of Planet C is more likely similar to that of Neptune scientists
believe that apart from the newly discovered planity the planet B also might be habitable
this makes it one of the few star systems with more than one planet in its habitable zone
interestingly toie takes 28 days to orbit its star and further studies might reveal its chemical
composition and who knows this might be the planet with life but if we do not find life there don't
worry there are several candidates that could host life take for example koi 57 15.01 this
planet could perhaps not just replace Earth should we mess this one up but be utterly better than our
blue planet yes this one is a super habitable planet but here's the catch the planet is 3 000
light years away and traveling to it is impossible in the next 100 or even 1 000 years unless there
is a sudden vertical spike in our technology Cora 57 15.01 exists in the goldilock stone of its star
and is 5.5 billion years old giving life more of a chance to develop so there's something to eat but
not so old that it still can't generate geothermal heat and lack protective geomagnetic fields
if you could land on the planet you just might be a bit chilly and you'd weigh about 80 percent of
your weight and guess what you'd be able to fly on the planet superhumans of a super habitable planet
yep koi 57 15.0 once stands out in the list of all the potential habitable planets
if we could turn web towards its direction and read its chemical composition it could
turn out to be a game changer Kepler 1126b next in the list is another Super Earth named Kepler
1126p orbiting the star Kepler 1126 this exoplanet orbits its star every 108.6 days
but don't get too excited because this planet too is very far away 2072.6 light years away
speculus 2C this is one of the most habitable exoplanets ever discovered as per our studies
the planet orbits a red dwarf star that's around 100 light years from Earth in the constellation
of ridiness only a few details are known about speculus 2C Beyond its size and the eight days it
takes to orbit its star it is also tidally locked which means it has a permanent day on one side and
it is always night on the other despite these differences the team estimates that it appears
to be the second most habitable planet discovered so far after trappist-1i outside our solar system
and could still potentially have liquid water on its surface talking about trappist-1e the
James Webb Space Telescope has started to peer at the tantalizing planets in the star system to
find life or the right conditions for it we also have the first confirmed images of the trappist-1
system from the Superstar telescope the image of trappist-1 is pixelated and to the entrained eye
doesn't reveal much detail but if you look carefully we have a photo bomber here webs
near infrared imager and slitless spectrograph instrument observed trappist-1 on July 18 2022
ultimately this image has been compiled with observations done during a quick setup shot with
the instrument to ensure the telescope was pointed and calibrated properly at the time it is believed
one of Trapper's seven earth-sized planets was passing in front of the star the purported photo
bomber trappist-1b which orbits much too close to the red Wharf might not be able to sustain
life but a glimpse at the makeup of its atmosphere would still be a huge step forward for exoplanet
science maybe we could Point orbit trapped towards it and find out if it can detect bio signatures
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