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Presence of gas on exoplanet 'only produced by life'
- riffic 2y agowe are not alone I want to believe
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- aaronblohowiak 2y agoAre there new findings or is this like we discussed several months ago?
- jepler 2y agoThis is a newly published paper (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad3828/pdf https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ad3828/...) but it concerns observations made in 2021. i.e., it's new analysis of old data.
- jepler 2y agoExciting: 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.