Carl Sagan Institute: Astronomers seeking life on distant planets may want to go for the glow. Harsh ultraviolet radiation from red suns, once thought to destroy surface life on planets, might help uncover hidden biospheres as they glow. That neon-like glimmer is a star-induced gleam called biofluorescence, which could turn distant exoplanets into the black-light posters of outer-space, according to new Cornell research, published Aug. 13 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society "Bio...
Carl Sagan Institute: Astronomers seeking life on distant planets may want to go for the glow. Harsh ultraviolet radiation from red suns, once thought to destroy surface life on planets, might help uncover hidden biospheres as they glow. That neon-like glimmer is a star-induced gleam called biofluorescence, which could turn distant exoplanets into the black-light posters of outer-space, according to new Cornell research, published Aug. 13 in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society "Bio...
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