I was at my 50th college reunion last week, and my favorite part — after the nightly ice cream socials and the wine tastings — was attending the lectures like the one given by Lisa Kaltenegger, director of Cornell’s Carl Sagan Institute.
More from Dave Ross:“With every new better instrument, we find something that we didn’t even know existed before, and we find new questions, and that, to me, is what makes science so interesting,” Kaltenegger said.
Her team recently published a paper arguing that the Webb Space Telescope should be able to conclusively determine within a month whether or not the planet has an atmosphere. And if it does, by collecting data for another five and a half months, they could determine if that planet was actually habitable.“If we have biosignatures in the atmosphere, the next thing I’d want is that additional data to see if I can get surface features,” Kaltenegger said.
And what really perked me up about her presentation was that she assumes that just as we are examining LP809-9C, the potential inhabitants of LP809-9C could be focusing“If there’s life out there in the universe and if there are other curious astronomers, whichever alien kind you would want to invoke, I don’t see why they wouldn’t do the same,” Kaltenegger said.
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