How to find an Exoplanet?

Since 1995, astronomers have detected nearly 2000 exoplanets - planets around stars other than the Sun. These days, we are taking the first steps towards finding out what these planet are made of. When it comes to life on other planets, chemistry is key: Which exoplanets are likely to have life-friendly conditions? Plenty of oxygen and carbon is a possible indicator of the presence of earth-like life. The film will explain how researchers can detect simple life on a planet just by looking at the chemical fingerprint of their atmospheres.

Production by:
Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy
Sonderforschungsbereich 881 ‘Milky Way’
Haus der Astronomie
Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge

Expert scientists: Ben Davies, Florian Rodler, Ralph Schoenrich, Greg Stinson, Karin Lind

(c) Maria Bergemann

[natacha]

Florian. its something like new life over there you saying? or....new creature?really? I am so impressed and...enormously happy that science is still closer and closer to this incredible life on another planets:).honestly. Hope you will reach it one day!what about life on the earth...?