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Discovering Alien Life in the Universe. Talking with Professor Nikku Madhusudhan
Season 23
Episode 15
Published 2 years, 4 months ago
Description
Deploying the James Webb Space Telescope, Madhu and his team at Cambridge University have discovered the first hints of DMS on an exoplanet 120 light years distant from Earth. On Earth, only living organisms produce DMS. More research is necessary to confirm the presence of DMS on exoplanet K2-18b, but the first hints of such are a breakthrough in itself.