Life on Earth depends on the steady nature of our star, and an international team of scientists searched thousands of other stars to try to find out if the sun has always been as consistent as it is now. And According to a study published Monday in Nature Astronomy, scientists searching for habitable exoplanets should maybe be looking in some more exotic places.
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Sources:
Sun paper: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6490/518
Microbes paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1069-4
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hH9u5ql0MGw
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S_cerevisiae_under_DIC_microscopy.jpg
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Esa-hubble-k2-18a_impression.jpg
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