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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!

Kat Benjamin

@katskib.bsky.social

17 Apr 2025

Citation or it's bullshit.

MaTT FLaMMaBLe

@mattflammable.com

It’s literally a story in every single major news outlet today. Literally. Again, this is a potential bio signature. Not confirmation.

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Kat Benjamin

@katskib.bsky.social

18 Apr 2025

Of course I'd read the story. Just seemed to me that you kind of overstated the info in the report. I'll be thrilled the day we find any life form elsewhere (as we know it: there could theoretically be some we can't currently perceive). I'm sure there is, was, or will be other life in the universe.