it’s a lot like life
From “yesterday’s New Scientist”:http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn8507:
bq. The first evidence that some of the basic organic building blocks of life can exist in an Earth-like orbit around a young Sun-like star has been provided by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope.
Nicely done. I can’t wait to go visit some of these places…
Posted by Chris in Space on December 23rd, 2005
Ooo. Wonderful! Wouldn’t it be keen to be able to watch the evolution of life on a planet like this? Visit such a place? Feel the heat of an alien, yet not-so-different sun on your face? Oh, but we couldn’t, could we? What is the chance we’d contaminate a virgin planet with bacteria from our own world? Ah, the questions…