The main goal of modern astronomy and planetary science the universe scattered everywhere components of life is to be discovered. Two scientists working on exoplanets and astrobiology, James Webb telescope Thanks to a new generation of telescopes such as chemical structure of the atmosphere thinks they can measure.

The two scientists’ best hopes rest on one or more of these planets. a chemical trail of life to find what you have. As with previous discoveries on Mars or Jupiter in the solar system also to live Two researchers, who believe it is possible, say a telescope should be sent to obtain physical samples because it is difficult to look for signs of life in space or on the sun.

The James Webb Space Telescope is the only telescope to detect changes in light in space.

Astrobiologists will study starlight that interacts with a planet’s surface or atmosphere to detect life on a distant planet. If the atmosphere or surface has been transformed by life, light “biosignature” It may contain a clue called Detecting these subtle changes in the light of a potentially habitable exoplanet would require an incredibly powerful telescope. For now, the only telescope with such success is the new James Webb Space Telescope.

James Webb gas giant exoplanet, which began scientific operations in July 2022 from WASP-96b read the spectrum. The spectrum showed the presence of water and clouds, but a planet as big and hot as WASP-96b isn’t supposed to harbor life either. But these early data show that James Webb was able to detect weak chemical signatures in light from exoplanets.

Webb will explore planets closer to Earth in the coming months

In the coming months, Webb will project his mirrors onto a potentially habitable Earth-sized planet just 39 light-years from Earth. to TRAPPIST-1e ready to translate. The telescope can search for biosignatures by studying planets as they pass in front of their host stars and by capturing starlight filtering through the planet’s atmosphere. But because it wasn’t designed to look for life, the telescope can only survey some of the nearest potentially habitable planets. It can also detect only changes in the levels of carbon dioxide, methane and water vapor in the atmosphere. Only a fraction of what we’ve written points to the existence of life, and Webb can’t detect the presence of oxygen, the strongest sign for life.

Researchers are currently under construction and can search for biosignatures in three massive, soil-bound Giant Magellen Telescope, Thirty meters telescope and European extremely large telescopes He stated that each of them is much more powerful than existing telescopes on Earth. These telescopes can easily examine the atmospheres of the nearest planets for oxygen, although Earth’s atmosphere distorts starlight.

Even if astrobiologists use the most powerful telescopes in the coming decades, they will only be able to detect powerful biosignatures produced by worlds completely transformed by life. To avoid false results, astronomers and astrobiologists will need to study an interesting planet well enough to understand whether the geological or atmospheric processes can mimic a biosignature. Still, studies of next-generation exoplanets have the potential to raise the bar for the extraordinary evidence needed to prove the existence of life in space. Early findings from the James Webb Space Telescope give us a sense of the exciting progress that will soon take place.