What Alien Astronomers Would See if They Observed Earth

“A handful of researchers have tried to simulate Earth’s transit spectrum, but this is the first empirical infrared transit spectrum of Earth,” says McGill University astronomer Nicolas Cowan with the Institute for Research on Exoplanets. “This is what alien astronomers would see if they observed a transit of Earth.”

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