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This is K2-18b. It’s a planet outside of our solar system, about 2 1/2 times the size of earth, orbiting a small red dwarf star. The James Webb space telescope spent time studying this planet via spectroscopy and determined it has gases in its atmosphere that are only created through biology!

I did not intend to say that it was. The gas seen on this exoplanet can be reproduced in laboratory environments. But we don’t see it naturally occurring in nature, which is the reason for the excitement. Much more testing and analysis and observation is needed.

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