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In the constellation Alpha Centauri, the planet Pandora, inhabited by blue natives, may indeed exist. And getting to them in the foreseeable future is not such a hopeless task.
James Cameron wrote the screenplay for his film Avatar 15 years ago. And even then he placed a fictional extraterrestrial world in a real and closest star system to us – Alpha Centauri A, which is little more than 4 light years from us.
In addition, for some reason, the author settled cinematic brothers in mind – blue navi – not on an independent planet like our Earth, but on Pandora – a satellite of the gas giant Polyphemus, similar to our Saturn or Jupiter.
Three years ago, scientists confirmed Cameron’s first fantastic prediction. Computer modeling by Javiera Guedes and Greg Laughlin of the University of California, Santa Cruz showed that terrestrial-type rocky planets must exist in Alpha Centauri.
Moreover, with conditions on the surface suitable for life. And last year researchers from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA) said: extraterrestrial life is most likely to be found just on the satellites of the gas giants – on the so-called exomoons.
Exomoons – of a suitable size with water and an atmosphere – are by no means rare objects in the Universe. An example of this is our solar system. Titan, Saturn’s moon, has a very dense atmosphere and Earth-like relief.
Europa, a satellite of Jupiter, hides many kilometers of ocean under a layer of ice. And if our gas giants were closer to the Sun, in a warmer zone, then life could well exist on their satellites. Up to reasonable. Like on Pandora.
By this year, astrophysicists have already
discovered about 400 very warm exoplanets the size of Jupiter or Saturn.
It’s up to finding their satellites....<<<Read More>>>...