‘We will find life outside the solar system within 25 years,’ said researcher GIGAZINE.

in 2020The possibility of water under the surface of Mars has been shownHowever, since then, no traces of life have been found on Mars.However, it is considered a suitable environment for the birth of life.habitable areaThere are many planets inexplorea job. ‘We will find life outside the solar system in 25 years,’ said Sacha Kwantz, an astrophysicist at the Zurich Institute of Technology in Switzerland, at a press conference about a space-related project promoted by the university. .

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ETH Zurich hasThe center of the origin and spread of life(Center for the Origin and Spread of Life) To address basic questions about the spread of life in the universe and the processes that led to its emergence. The opening ceremony for this center was held on September 2, 2022, and at a press conference on the same day, Mr. Quantz posed the question, “Is there a planet on which there is life other than Earth in outer space?” “The answer to the question may be found soon,” he said.

In 1995, my fellow Nobel laureateDidier QuelozHe was the first man to discover a planet outside the solar system. Now, the number of exoplanets discovered by mankind has doubled to more than 5,000, and our experts are discovering exoplanets every day.” It is claimed that it is increasing day by day.

There are more than 100 billion planets in the Milky Way, each with at least one planetCompanionIn other words, there are still many extrasolar planets that have not been discovered at the time of writing. And many of these undiscovered exoplanets fulfill the conditions that make life possible, ‘being at an appropriate distance from the main star and having liquid water, etc.’

Of these undiscovered exoplanets, Quantz said: “We don’t know if these terrestrial planets have atmospheres, and what those atmospheres are made of, so we don’t know.” We need to study the atmosphere of these planets. To study the atmosphere, we need observational methods that allow us to image planets.”

This approach helps observing exoplanets on the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, which was launched in December 2021.James Webb Space TelescopeHo. The main mission of the James Webb Space Telescope is to observe for the first time the first star, which is said to have begun to brighten about 200 million years after the Big Bang. To discover carbon dioxide and water inSuccessa job. But it’s not a space telescope powerful enough to detect the presence of liquid water on a planet as small as Earth.

Quantz also said, “HIP 65426, a gas giant planet, orbits so far from its star, the James Webb Space Telescope can take pictures of exoplanets like this. But it’s not powerful enough to image small planets.”

With the goal of filling in the weaknesses of the James Webb Space Telescope, the team of Mr. Quants et al. METIS is a next-generation 39-meter Very Large Telescope under construction on Mount Armazones in Chile.E-ELTIt will be part of when completed, E-ELT will be the largest optical telescope in the world.

Quantz said of METIS, “The main purpose of METIS is to image terrestrial planets that may have Earth-like environments near the nearest star. However, the long-range view is not just for imaging some stars, but dozens of exoplanets and studying the composition of their atmospheres.”

A mission called “LIFE (Large Interferometer for Exoplanets)” aims to examine the molecular components in the atmospheres of exoplanets.European Space Agency(European Space Agency), ‘LIFE is being seen as a candidate for a large-scale mission that will be promoted in the future in the ESA Science Program,’ said Kwantz.

‘Although it is an ambitious goal, the ’25 years’ set as the deadline for discovering life outside the solar system is not unrealistic, Quantz said.