Thursday January 21, 2010
Avatar's Moon Pandora Could Be Real
Ehud Rattner
The Future Of Things
NASA’s Kepler mission has excited the imagination of many astronomers, when it showed recently the potential to detect Earth-sized objects and habitable moons. In a new paper, researcher from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics suggests that stellar objects could have stable atmospheres, allowing life to exist – just as seen in the new motion picture ‘Avatar’.
In the new film Avatar, humans visit an alien moon called Pandora; now, scientist Lisa Kaltenegger is showing that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) can study the atmosphere of alien moons and planets, as well as detect key gases like carbon dioxide, oxygen, and water vapor.
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