Thursday, July 24, 2014

ScienceDaily: Stars News

ScienceDaily: Stars News


New approach in search for extraterrestrial intelligence: Target alien polluters

Posted: 23 Jul 2014 08:12 AM PDT

Humanity is on the threshold of being able to detect signs of alien life on other worlds. By studying exoplanet atmospheres, we can look for gases like oxygen and methane that only coexist if replenished by life. But those gases come from simple life forms like microbes. What about advanced civilizations? Would they leave any detectable signs? They might, if they spew industrial pollution into the atmosphere.

Lives and deaths of sibling stars

Posted: 23 Jul 2014 08:09 AM PDT

In a new image from ESO, young stars huddle together against clouds of glowing gas and lanes of dust. The star cluster, NGC 3293, would have been just a cloud of gas and dust itself about ten million years ago, but as stars began to form it became the bright group of stars we see here. Clusters like this are laboratories that allow astronomers to learn about how stars evolve.

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