Exploring extraterrestrial life has always been a dream of scientists, and the American Physical Society (APS) has announced that with the opening of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the largest primary mirror ever built, in October this year, the scientific community is expected to find traces of extraterrestrial life within the next five to ten years.
JWST is jointly operated by NASA, the European Space Agency and other organizations, the main mirror is about 6.4 meters long, and can detect more light from space objects than other space telescopes.
Caprice Phillips, a master at Ohio State University, recently created a model to simulate the reaction of JWST to the clouds and atmospheres of different distant stars and found that it only needs a few orbits to detect the presence of gases that make up complex life molecules, such as ammonia, on gas dwarf planets.
Phillips pointed out that the simulation reflects JWST can quickly filter out absolutely no life stars, so that scientists may be as little as 60 hours to detect other signs of life on planets beyond our solar system. jWST will be in French Guiana this October, by the French Ariane 5 rocket to carry liftoff.
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