Dying stars could host life, which we might be able to detect within the next decade. This finding, reported by e! Science, comes from a new theoretical study of Earth-like planets orbiting white dwarf stars.
Researchers found that we could detect oxygen in a white dwarf's planet more easily than for an Earth-like planet orbiting a Sun-like star.
Comparatively close to Earth, supernova remnant W49B offers astronomers the chance to examine an as yet little understood phenomenon. Harbouring the youngest black hole in our galaxy, the supernova exploded just 27,000 years ago.
Have you ever heard of the chemical hydroxylamine? Astronomers are saying that this molecule, which is made up of atoms of
nitrogen, hydrogen, and oxygen, may be the seed bomb to fertilize life on other
planets, and may in fact be the key ingredient to the development of life on
earth.
