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The Pale Blue Blog
The Pale Blue Blog, now available at Astrobiology Magazine. http://astrobio.net/paleblueblog/
The Astrobiology Magazine is now welcoming the addition of the Pale Blue Blog – a unique collection of individual bloggers who voice their opinions on matters ranging from the evolution of life to extrasolar planets. According to the organizers, the new science blog is “about ‘Pale blue dots,’ in the way that Carl Sagan once referred to the Earth.”From Pale Blue Blog:
This blog aims to be a little different than your “traditional” science blog, in much the same way an interactive classroom is different from a “traditional” powerpoint-based one. We want to foster multi-directional conversations....Source: [astrobio.net]
January 13, 2012 / Posted by: Aaron Gronstal
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Kepler Confirms First Planet in Habitable Zone
This artist's conception illustrates Kepler-22b, a planet known to comfortably circle in the habitable zone of a sun-like star. Image credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech
NASA’s Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the “habitable zone,” the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. Kepler also has discovered more than 1,000 new planet candidates, nearly doubling its previously known count. Ten of these candidates are near-Earth-size and orbit in the habitable zone of their host star. Candidates require follow-up observations to verify they are actual planets.
The newly confirmed planet, Kepler-22b, is the smallest yet found to orbit in the middle of the habitable zone of a star similar to our sun. The planet is about 2.4 times...
Source: [NASA Press Release]
December 5, 2011 / Posted by: Daniella Scalice
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New Mission Concept Studies Include Astrobiology Projects
NASA has selected 11 science proposals for evaluation as potential future science missions. The proposals outline prospective missions relevant to astrobiology and the quest to understand more about extrasolar planets, especially Fast INfrared Exoplanet Spectroscopy Survey Explorer (FINESSE), Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), and Exoplanetary Circumstellar Environments and Disk Explorer (EXCEDE). Click here for more information.
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October 3, 2011 / Posted by: Daniella Scalice
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New Habitable Zone Planet Finder Instrument
The Hobby-Eberly Telescope at night. Credit: Marty Harris/McDonald Obs./UT-AustinThanks to seed funding from NAI, a new, NSF-funded instrument to be built at Penn State will enable the detection of planets in habitable zones around cool, nearby stars. The instrument will reveal planets similar in mass to Earth and in orbits that allow liquid water to exist on their surfaces. Weighing over two tons, the Habitable Zone Planet Finder will be approximately the size of an SUV, and will be installed at the Hobby-Eberly Telescope at McDonald Observatory in west Texas.
Source: [Penn State]
September 29, 2011 / Posted by: Daniella Scalice
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Free-Floating Planets May Be More Common Than Stars
This artist's conception illustrates a Jupiter-like planet alone in the dark of space, floating freely without a parent star. Astronomers recently uncovered evidence for 10 such lone worlds, thought to have been "booted," or ejected, from developing solar systems. Image credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechAstronomers have discovered a new class of Jupiter-sized planets floating alone in the dark of space, away from the light of a star. The team believes these lone worlds probably were ejected from developing planetary systems. But could they host life?
The discovery is based on a joint Japan-New Zealand survey that scanned the center of the Milky Way galaxy during 2006 and 2007, revealing evidence for up to 10 free-floating planets roughly the mass of Jupiter. The isolated orbs, also known as orphan planets, are difficult to spot, and had gone undetected until now. The planets...
Source: [NASA Press Release]
May 18, 2011 / Posted by: Daniella Scalice
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Kepler Discovers Its First Rocky Planet
Artist concept of Kepler 10b. Credit: NASA.NASA’s Kepler mission confirmed the discovery of its first rocky planet, named Kepler-10b. Measuring 1.4 times the size of Earth, it is the smallest planet ever discovered outside our solar system.
The discovery of this so-called exoplanet is based on more than eight months of data collected by the spacecraft from May 2009 to early January 2010.
“All of Kepler’s best capabilities have converged to yield the first solid evidence of a rocky planet orbiting a star other than our sun,” said Natalie Batalha, Kepler’s deputy science team lead at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.,...
Source: [NASA Press Release]
January 10, 2011 / Posted by: Daniella Scalice
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Volcanoes on Alien Worlds
Volcanoes display the awesome power of Nature like few other events. Now that astronomers are finding rocky worlds orbiting distant stars, they’re asking the next logical questions: Do any of those worlds have volcanoes? And if so, could we detect them? To answer these questions, a team of researchers with support from the NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) have shown that large-scale explosive volcanism can be remotely observed on exoplanets around the closest stars using sulfur dioxide as a chemical proxy.Source: [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics]
September 8, 2010 / Posted by: Aaron Gronstal
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Kepler Discovers Multiple Planets Transiting a Single Star
NASA’s Kepler spacecraft has discovered the first confirmed planetary system with more than one planet crossing in front of, or transiting, the same star.
The transit signatures of two distinct Saturn-sized planets were seen in the data for a sun-like star designated “Kepler-9.” The planets were named Kepler-9b and 9c. The discovery incorporates seven months of observations of more than 156,000 stars as part of an ongoing search for Earth-sized planets outside our solar system. The findings will be published in Thursday’s issue of the journal Science.Kepler’s ultra-precise camera measures tiny decreases in the stars’ brightness that...
Source: [Science@NASA]
August 26, 2010 / Posted by: Daniella Scalice
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Earth-Like Planets May Be Shielded From Solar Scorching
Danger zone? The nearby M dwarf star Gliese 581 and some of its planets. A new study indicates that suns like this may not be as detrimental to habitable worlds as thought.
Credit: ESO/L. CalcadaMany of our galaxy’s suns have destroyed the atmospheres of orbiting Earth-like planets—or so astrobiologists have long feared. The Milky Way, they note, is dominated by M dwarf stars: violent, unpredictable suns that frequently hurl high-energy particles and solar flares into space. Because they are much cooler than our sun, any potentially habitable planet would need to orbit them much closer than Earth does, putting it smack in the danger zone. But a new study from NAI’s Virtual Planetary Laboratory indicates that these planets may be unexpectedly shielded from solar activity, keeping life safe.
Source: [Science NOW]
July 16, 2010 / Posted by: Daniella Scalice
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Habitable Moons Outside the Solar System?
PLANETRISE: In an artist's conception, rocky moons orbit a gas giant in a distant planetary system. Image credit: NASA.In the past two decades, the roster of known planets in the galaxy has mushroomed. Astronomers have added to the handful in our own solar system roughly 450 so-called exoplanets orbiting other stars. Most of those planets are more massive than Saturn, which makes them unpromising from a habitability standpoint—such giants tend to be gaseous bodies without a surface to walk on.
But the giant planets in our solar system—Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus—all have moons, some with planetlike features such as atmospheres, magnetic fields or active volcanoes….
Source: [Scientific American]
May 10, 2010 / Posted by: Daniella Scalice
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A Drop in the Bucket
A team of scientists is developing methods to search for signs of water in protoplanetary disks around distant stars. The method could help astronomers identify which extrasolar planets are more likely to contain water on their surfaces. Such information would ultimately aid astrobiologists in the search for habitable worlds beyond our solar system. The team hopes to use instruments such as the Spitzer Space Telescope and the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) to determine the composition of dust in extrasolar protoplanetary disks.Source: [astrobio.net]
February 18, 2010 / Written by: Anuradha K. Herath
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Astrobiology Opens Pandora's Box
Lisa Kaltenegger from NAI’s MIT team discusses exoplanets and science fiction with CNN World, noting that it’s likely many moons such as Avatar’s Pandora exist, and we’re that much closer to finding them with NASA’s Kepler mission.
Source: [CNN World]
January 11, 2010 / Posted by: Daniella Scalice
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Kepler: The First Five
NASA’s Kepler space telescope, designed to find Earth-size planets in the habitable zone of sun-like stars, has discovered its first five new exoplanets, or planets beyond our solar system.
Kepler’s high sensitivity to both small and large planets enabled the discovery of the exoplanets, named Kepler 4b, 5b, 6b, 7b and 8b. The discoveries were announced Monday, Jan. 4, by the members of the Kepler science team during a news briefing at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington.
Source: [Astrobio.net]
January 4, 2010 / Posted by: Daniella Scalice
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First Super-Earths Discovered Around Sun-like Stars
Two nearby stars have been found to harbor “super-Earths”― rocky planets larger than the Earth but smaller than ice giants such as Uranus and Neptune. Unlike previously discovered stars with super-Earths, both of the stars are similar to the Sun, suggesting to scientists that low-mass planets may be common around nearby stars. “Over the last 12 years or so nearly 400 planets have been found, and the vast majority of them have been very large―Jupiter mass or even larger,” says researcher Paul Butler of NAI’s team at the Carnegie Institution’s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism. “These latest planets are...
Source: [Carnegie Press Release]
December 14, 2009 / Posted by: Daniella Scalice
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Professor at University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo makes impact on the Study of Planetary Habitability
Professor Abel Mendez has been a dynamic force in scientific research within the University of Puerto Rico system for over 15 years. Mendez, a biophysicist, currently serves as an Associate Professor of Physics and Chemistry at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo. Professor Mendez’s research focus is the study of planetary habitability and the development of habitability models to understand the interactions between life and terrestrial or planetary environments.The students in Professor Mendez laboratory enjoy being surrounded by a role model that has such a passion for his work and can help them fulfill...November 23, 2009 / Written by: Benita P. Bell
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NOVA ScienceNOW - Hunt for Alien Earths
A web shot for the webpage called NOVA science now.NOVA’s ScienceNOW series, hosted by Neil de Grasse Tyson, has just released a new episode called Hunt for Alien Earths which is devoted to the work of astronomers who search for planets orbiting other stars that might host life. Astrobiologists Lisa Kaltenegger, David Charbonneau, and Geoff Marcy are featured in this beautifully produced, twelve minute video.
July 9, 2009 / Posted by: Daniella Scalice
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The New Astrobiology Magazine
Is there life on other planets? What are the latest findings on Mars? Astrobiology Magazine has been reporting the latest and most exciting developments in science related to astrobiology since 2000. Now, Astrobiology Magazine has designed a completely new website in order to provide the best possible experience for viewers. The site can now be viewed at http://www.astrobio.net.
Source: [Astrobiology Magazine]
June 18, 2009 / Posted by: Aaron Gronstal -
Reflections of Chirality as a Possible Biomarker
Scientists have come up with a novel way to detect life on other planets. Rather than try to measure the composition of atmospheres, they want to look at the chirality of light coming from the planet. “If the [planet’s] surface had just a collection of random chiral molecules, half would go left, half right,” says author T.A. Germer of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. “But life’s self-assembly means they all would go one way. It’s hard to imagine a planet’s surface exhibiting handedness without the presence of self assembly, which is an essential component of...
April 30, 2009 / Posted by: Daniella Scalice
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To See a Clear Day From Far Away
With the launch of NASA’s new Kepler spacecraft, the chances of discovering Earth-sized planets in Earth-like orbits around distant stars have increased. However, the real question for astrobiologists is, are these worlds habitable? Can we find an Earth-like planet with an Earth-like atmosphere? Answering such questions may prove to be very difficult.
Future missions like the James Webb Space Telescope (now scheduled for launch in 2013) may help astronomers characterize the atmospheres of distant planets, helping astrobiologists identify a true Earth twin beyond our solar system.Source: [Astrobiology Magazine]
March 22, 2009 / Posted by: Aaron Gronstal -
Finding Earth’s Twin: No Easy Task
NASA’s new Kepler mission is scheduled to launch in just a couple of days. Once in orbit, the powerful telescope will provide astrobiologists with the ability to search for rocky, Earth-like planets around distant stars. Ultimately, Kepler will help us determine if these potentially life-supporting worlds are common or rare in the Universe.
Source: [Astrobiology Magazine]
March 2, 2009 / Written by: Henry Bortman
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