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Grant for MKID development
October 20, 2024
The SRON team working on MKID detectors, led by Pieter de Visser, secured a grant from the Dutch national funding agency NWO to work on efficient MKID detectors for the LIFE wavelength range. The grant is for a 3 year postdoc and materials…
First Dutch-Belgian LIFE Meeting
September 21, 2024
The first Dutch-Belgian LIFE Meeting in September 2024 saw lively discussions surrounding instrumentation and science talks. The goal of the meeting was to bring together the growing Belgian and Dutch LIFE communities. During the day the…
Grant for “Compact Delay Line for Space Interferometry”
September 1, 2024
PI Leonid Pogorelyuk (RPI), and Co-I's Kerri Cahoy (MIT), John Monnier (UMichigan), and Michael Shao (JPL) won a NASA-funded grant for a LIFE related technology project starting in September 2024. The "Compact Delay Line for Space…
LIFE in the media
Auch das Fehlen von Ausserirdischen bringt uns weiter
[SRF] Derzeit werden erstmals Teleskope entwickelt, die darauf ausgelegt sind, systematisch nach Leben auf anderen Planeten zu suchen. Dazu gehört das Teleskop LIFE, das Forschende an der ETH Zürich planen.
How rare are inhabited worlds in the universe? The LIFE space telescope fleet could find out
[space.com] Still, Angerhausen and colleagues at ETH Zurich wanted to find out how much LIFE could tell us, even if it failed to find biosignatures. The team employed a Bayesian statistical model to find the smallest number of exoplanets LIFE would need to observe.
In the search for life on exoplanets, finding nothing is something too
[phys.org] It is not just about how many planets we observe; it is about asking the right questions and how confident we can be in seeing or not seeing what we are searching for.
Scientists want new mission to seek out alien life
[BBC] Astronomers from ETH Zurich want to send space telescopes to explore exoplanets even further away than Neptune, the planet furthest from the Sun.
Nearby Habitable-Zone Exoplanet May Be a World of Fire and Ice
[Scientific American] Upcoming or proposed missions like NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory and ESA’s Large Interferometer For Exoplanets are meant to directly image potentially habitable worlds.
Die knifflige Suche nach außerirdischem Leben
[Deutschlandfunk] Hoffnungen ruhen bereits auf der nächsten Teleskop-Generation. Das internationale Projekt Large Interferometer for Exoplanets will eine Art Kamera für ferne Exoplaneten bauen.