Yay waiting for the James Webb telescope to launch this year, the first exoplanet was discovered back in 1995 after that through advances in theoretical understanding and technology we've been able to find thousands of exoplanets in our Stars neighborhood and we now can study them more better with better techniques helping to understand what the composition of the planets are and if it can be habitable zone for life.
I don't like when people questions if we are alone we've looked everywhere but we can't find anyone, it's like saying like really taking a glass sample from the ocean and saying well there's no whale lol
Still now we can only inspect a very tiny part of the sky of course bcz how vast space is.
There are around 400 million stars in our milky way and there are more than 200 million planets in some of the star systems.
And there are like 2 trillion galaxies in observable universe!
Aha we just found out that Mars the planet after earth had life and bcz of it's size it couldn't hold it's athmosphere from solar flares, on earth that gives us auroras. And think of the moons like europa etc.
If anyone wants to continue with the discussion we can get lit here real quick! Got the space knowledge ;)
Yeah. This telescope will also be able to check for surface liquid water by measuring the exoplanet's atmospheric composition, depending on the amount of starlight passing through it.
Well, JWST FTW!