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Omri Vandel

An illustration of the appearance of Comet Omoamua based on observations by the European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Opinion/ Omri Vandel: UFOs and the Galileo project What are the chances that extraterrestrials will visit us?

According to the principle of "Occam's Razor", it is much more likely that UFOs can be explained as natural phenomena that we do not yet understand, or artificial objects of terrestrial origin, just as Umama's seemingly mysterious properties have been offered far more prosaic explanations than the alien probe speculation.
Kepler-1649c orbits the red dwarf at the center of the system. At the moment the second known planet Kepler-1649b. Image: NASA/Ames Research Center/Daniel Rutter

Prof. Omri Vandel will participate in two projects to find planets suitable for life

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The research focuses on a relatively new topic - the programming of biological life in planets orbiting red dwarfs * To verify the hypothesis, the James Webb Space Telescope, and the Israeli Ultrasat Space Telescope when they are launched, will be directed to the planets discovered by Vandel and his colleagues
life in the universe Illustration: shutterstock

It would be strange if no sign of biological life was found given the fact that there are so many planets

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Planets of all kinds. Illustration: shutterstock

Detecting water vapor in the atmosphere of an Earth-like planet is a big step toward discovering life in space

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Iconography showing the habitable zone around the planet Teegarden in two conservative and optimistic scenarios, compared to our solar system and other planets discovered in their star's habitable zone. The scale is normalized to the size of our solar system. In practice the planets Teegarden b and Teegarden c are much closer to their sun. Illustration: C. Harman

"The two planets discovered this week orbiting a red dwarf near the Sun are good candidates for the search for life"

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Asteroids pass by the Earth. Image: NASA

Considerable amounts of water were discovered in the Bennu asteroid, did the asteroids bring the water to Earth?

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Artist's rendering of a planet with an atmosphere orbiting a red dwarf.

Is there life on the nearest planet, Proxima Centauri b?

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red dwarf From Wikipedia

Extraterrestrial life: similar to us and closer than we thought

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A view of a planet outside the solar system. Illustration: shutterstock

The Kepler data increase the likelihood of a widespread distribution of life in the universe

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Richard Branson is practicing flying Spaceship-2. From the Virgin Galactic website

"The damage to the space tourism industry will only be in the short term, it is clear to everyone that there is a risk in technological developments"

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