Of all the jobs that telescopes do — learning about distant galaxies, taking pictures of beautiful nebulae, or learning about far-off stars — one of the most exciting for the public is looking for habitable worlds. It’s not easy to find a world that could harbor life as the conditions have to be just right: not too hot or too cold, not too much radiation, made of rock rather than gas, having an atmosphere that is thick enough but
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