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“How such a massive star can form in complete isolation is still a mystery,” said Sebastian Gomez, at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics . “When we first realized how thoroughly unusual SN 2016iet is, my reaction was ‘Whoa—did something go horribly wrong with our data?'”
“This is a completely novel way to search for life in the universe. Just imagine an alien world glowing softly in a powerful telescope,” said lead author Jack O’Malley-James, a researcher at Cornell’s Carl Sagan Institute about ultraviolet radiation flares from red suns that might trigger a protective glow from life called biofluorescence.
On February 5, 2019, The Galaxy reported that if advanced, space-faring alien life exist anywhere in the Milky Way, odds are they will live in the Galactic Habitable Zone (GHZ). And if they want to explore the Milky Way searching for other life-bearing planets, similar to Earth, they would only have to explore the GHZ, not the whole of the Galaxy.
In August of 2016, The Galaxy reported that our “Milky Way’s ‘Lurking, Dormant Monster’ –“Our Central Black Hole Currently Fails to Outshine a Single Star.” Up until this May, 2019, Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), appeared like a massive, dormant volcano, a sleeping monster, a slumbering region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that “what goes into them does not come out.”
“We know that giant planet migration must have taken place in order to explain the current orbital structure of the outer solar system,” said geologist Stephen Mojzsis at the University of Colorado about the “Giant Planet Migration” that could provide scientists with valuable clues around when life might have first emerged on Earth. “But until this study, nobody knew when it happened.”
