The telescope can detect life beyond Earth

A space telescope with 25 times sharper vision than the current Hubble glass can help find aliens.

The larger telescope can detect life beyond Earth

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) is a research product in the joint project of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA), placed in orbit about 600 meters from Earth. kilometer.Scientists put the Hubble telescope into space in 1990. Its main mirrors, also called WFIRST / AFTA and JWST, are 2.4 meters and 6.5 meters wide, respectively.

Hubble Space Telescope (HST).(Photo: NASA)

Mario Livio, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, says that a telescope with a 12 m-wide main mirror will produce 25 times sharper view than Hubble . Thus, scientists can observe a planet next to its host star, detecting the existence of oxygen and other signs in the atmosphere.

Livio believes that the larger Hubble telescope will identify signs of life by detecting oxygen and chlorophyll, helping experts to search for and solve alien mysteries. Scientists have found more than 1,800 distinct planets with the planet in the solar system.

According to IB Times, HST was the first tool to detect the chemical composition of the atmosphere and some extrasolar planets, revealing the spectral signal of water, methane.