Science
Astronomers catalogue 1,000 worlds that can ‘see’ Earth – and are candidates for possible COLONIZATION – RT
Two astronomers have rethought the search for extraterrestrial intelligence by producing a ‘star map’ of exoplanets that have a direct line of sight of our planet…
Monitoring planets as they transit between an observer and their star is one of the main methods by which we Earthlings discover potentially viable exoplanets for colonization, so the thinking behind this new research is that equally advanced civilizations would use the same method to find us.
Transits provide crucial information about a planet’s composition and atmosphere, and thus viability for hosting life.
Lisa Kaltenegger, associate professor of astronomy at Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences,…
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