Researchers have made incredible advancements in the detection and study of exoplanets in recent years, spotting literally thousands of new planets and learning tantalizing details about them. Scientists can often tell how warm a planet’s surface is, what its atmosphere is made of, and whether or not it could hold liquid water on its surface.
All of this information helps in the never-ending search for extraterrestrial life, but what if an intelligent race of aliens were looking at us? Would they be able to see that Earth is habitable, or perhaps even detect the presence of life here from a distance? A new study published in Science attempts to answer that question, and the answer is just as complicated as you’d expect.
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When aliens spot Earth, what will they see? originally appeared on BGR.com on Sun, 25 Aug 2019 at 09:46:58 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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