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Strong LIFE presence at ESA’s PLANET ESLAB workshop
March 27, 2023
he European Space Agency's (ESA) PLANET ESLAB workshop was an exciting conference bridging between planetary and exoplanet science and an ideal occasion to advocate for LIFE and attract more supporters. For many LIFE team members it was the first opportunity to meet in person and discuss synergies between the various fields represented in our diverse team.
Observing Venus-Twins with LIFE: paper IX available on arxiv now
March 9, 2023
In Konrad et al. (https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.04727), the LIFE team studied different quality thermal emission spectra of cloudy Venus-twin exoplanet using Bayesian atmospheric retrievals. The goal of this study was to: test how the…
New LIFE paper accepted about the prospects for detecting and characterising exocomets
February 23, 2023
Comets around other stars than the Sun - exocomets - have so far only been possible to discover indirectly, when they pass in front of their parent stars as seen from Earth. In a new study accepted for publication in Astronomy &…
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A telescope fleet designed to study nearby worlds
[Astronomy] LIFE would use multiple satellites flying in formation to separate the faint thermal glow of rocky planets from the overwhelming light of their host stars.