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Born in India in 1980, Nikku Madhusudhan-A professor in Cambridge now led the team of scientists who used the James Webb space telescope to find convincing evidence of biological activity in an exoplanet, K2-18B
Nikku Madhusudhan (L) is a professor of astrophysics and exoplanetary science at the University of Cambridge; (R) The impression of a brochure artist shows the super-earth K2-18B, the only super-ground exoplanet known to house water and temperatures that could support life. (Image: M Kornmesser/Este/Hubble/AFP)
The Nikku Madhusudhan astrophysicist, the main scientist, a historical potential discovery of alien life on a planet 120 years of light, begins his journey in science at the Institute of Indian Technology of Bu, Varanasi.
Born in India in 1980, he studied for a master’s degree and a doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the United States. Cambridge professor, addressed the team of scientists who used the James Webb space telescope to find convincing evidence of biological activity in an exoplanet, K2-18B. An exoplanet is a planet that is not part of our solar system, but orbits another distant star.
“The best explanation for our observations is that (Exoplanet) K2-18B is covered with a warm ocean, full of life,” Madhusudan said at a press conference. He looked for moderate expectations, he thought: “No one is interested prematurely that we have detected life.” The discovery is not yet of real living organisms, but a possible presence of biological processes is stressed.
However, as the main author of the study published in the Astrophysical Diary LettersHe stressed: “This is a moment of transformation in the search for life beyond the Solar System, where we have shown that it is possible to detect biosignuras on enhanceable potentiatals with current facilities.”
Using the James Webb space telescope, the equipment found the dimethyl gas (DMS) gas, which is only produced by living organisms, such as sea algae in our oceans. In the most basic terms, if this gas is present in another world, that means a high possibility of life.
Around 5,800 planets have been discovered beyond our solar system (exoplanets) since the 1990s, said a CNN Report, adding that scientists believe that some of these exoplanets could be ‘Hycean Worlds’, covered by an ocean and an atmosphere rich in hydrogen, therefore, a possible home for living organisms.
Nikku Madhusudhan was better known for the concept of ‘planets Hycean’. Those specialized in the phenomena of exoplanets, their atmospheres, room possibilities, et al.
He is currently a professor of Astrophysics and Exoplanetary Science at the Institute of Astronomy of the University of Cambridge. He has also worked in other upper universities, including his mit of Alma Mater, Yale and Princeton. He has also won prizes of European astronomical society and the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics. His research is based on two main telescopes: the Hubble space telescope and the James Webb space telescope.
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