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SUMMARY:Searching for Habitable Worlds: Challenges & Opportunities
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DESCRIPTION:Title: Searching for Habitable Worlds: Challenges &amp\; Oppor
 tunitiesSpeaker: Prof. Lisa Kaltenegger\, Director of the Carl Sagan Insti
 tute at Cornell University\, NY\, USAAbstract: More than 5000 detected ext
 rasolar planets have shown us the huge diversity of these new worlds: amon
 g the surprising discoveries are hot planets orbiting their star in only a
  few hours\, lava worlds\, Mini-Neptunes as well as the first potential ro
 cky worlds in the temperate Habitable Zone of their host stars.Observation
  techniques have already reached the sensitivity to explore the chemical c
 omposition of the atmospheres of some hot exoplanets. With the successful 
 launch of the James Webb Space Telescope\, we will be able to glimpse into
  the atmosphere of potentially habitable worlds orbiting other stars.For n
 ow\, our own planet is our only key to spot life in the universe. Its evol
 ution through time and its diverse biota give us clues on what to search f
 or. The spectra of planets are our window to explore potential habitable w
 orlds lightyears away - as well as to understand our own planet better. Th
 is talk will present the newest results in our search\, its challenges and
  opportunities on the way to finding out whether or not we are alone in th
 e cosmos.
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LOCATION:PA1\, Pavilhão de Matemática
URL:http://df.vps.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/pt/eventos/searching-for-habitable-wo
 rlds-challenges-opportunities/
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p data-block-key="ojk6j"><b>Title:</b> Searc
 hing for Habitable Worlds: Challenges &amp\; Opportunities</p><p data-bloc
 k-key="2lv1j"><b>Speaker:</b> <a href="https://astro.cornell.edu/lisa-kalt
 enegger">Prof. Lisa Kaltenegger</a>\, Director of the Carl Sagan Institute
  at Cornell University\, NY\, USA</p><p data-block-key="asrtg"><b>Abstract
 :</b> More than 5000 detected extrasolar planets have shown us the huge di
 versity of these new worlds: among the surprising discoveries are hot plan
 ets orbiting their star in only a few hours\, lava worlds\, Mini-Neptunes 
 as well as the first potential rocky worlds in the temperate Habitable Zon
 e of their host stars.</p><p data-block-key="fs7tb">Observation techniques
  have already reached the sensitivity to explore the chemical composition 
 of the atmospheres of some hot exoplanets. With the successful launch of t
 he James Webb Space Telescope\, we will be able to glimpse into the atmosp
 here of potentially habitable worlds orbiting other stars.</p><p data-bloc
 k-key="bomop">For now\, our own planet is our only key to spot life in the
  universe. Its evolution through time and its diverse biota give us clues 
 on what to search for. The spectra of planets are our window to explore po
 tential habitable worlds lightyears away - as well as to understand our ow
 n planet better. This talk will present the newest results in our search\,
  its challenges and opportunities on the way to finding out whether or not
  we are alone in the cosmos.</p>
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