Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO): Living Worlds Community Working Group: The Search for Life on Potentially Habitable Exoplanets
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| author | Arney, Giada Parenteau, Niki Hinkel, Natalie Mamajek, Eric Krissansen-Totton, Joshua Olson, Stephanie Schwieterman, Edward Walker, Sara Fogarty, Kevin Kopparapu, Ravi Lustig-Yaeger, Jacob Moussa, Mark Ranjan, Sukrit Singh, Garima Sousa-Silva, Clara Belikov, Ruslan Frissell, Maxwell Gilbert-Janziek, Samantha Kofman, Vincent Latouf, Natasha Limbach, Mary Anne Morgan, Rhonda Stark, Christopher Tokadjian, Armen Ulses, Anna Grace Wogan, Nicholas Wong, Mike Young, Amber |
| author_facet | Arney, Giada Parenteau, Niki Hinkel, Natalie Mamajek, Eric Krissansen-Totton, Joshua Olson, Stephanie Schwieterman, Edward Walker, Sara Fogarty, Kevin Kopparapu, Ravi Lustig-Yaeger, Jacob Moussa, Mark Ranjan, Sukrit Singh, Garima Sousa-Silva, Clara Belikov, Ruslan Frissell, Maxwell Gilbert-Janziek, Samantha Kofman, Vincent Latouf, Natasha Limbach, Mary Anne Morgan, Rhonda Stark, Christopher Tokadjian, Armen Ulses, Anna Grace Wogan, Nicholas Wong, Mike Young, Amber |
| contents | The discovery of a biosphere on another planet would transform how we view ourselves, and our planet Earth, in relation to the rest of the cosmos. We now know Earth is one planet among eight circling our sun; our sun is part of a swirling galaxy of over one hundred billion other suns; and our galaxy is one of untold billions in the universe. While we do not yet know how many, if any, other biospheres exist on the countless worlds orbiting countless other suns, we stand at the precipice of a new era of discovery, enabled by powerful new facilities able to peer across the light years into the atmospheres of planets similar to our own. This article is an adaptation of a science case document (SCDD) developed for the NASA Astrophysics Flagship mission the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) Science, Technology, and Architecture Review Team (START) Living Worlds Community Working Group. |
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| spellingShingle | Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO): Living Worlds Community Working Group: The Search for Life on Potentially Habitable Exoplanets Arney, Giada Parenteau, Niki Hinkel, Natalie Mamajek, Eric Krissansen-Totton, Joshua Olson, Stephanie Schwieterman, Edward Walker, Sara Fogarty, Kevin Kopparapu, Ravi Lustig-Yaeger, Jacob Moussa, Mark Ranjan, Sukrit Singh, Garima Sousa-Silva, Clara Belikov, Ruslan Frissell, Maxwell Gilbert-Janziek, Samantha Kofman, Vincent Latouf, Natasha Limbach, Mary Anne Morgan, Rhonda Stark, Christopher Tokadjian, Armen Ulses, Anna Grace Wogan, Nicholas Wong, Mike Young, Amber Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics The discovery of a biosphere on another planet would transform how we view ourselves, and our planet Earth, in relation to the rest of the cosmos. We now know Earth is one planet among eight circling our sun; our sun is part of a swirling galaxy of over one hundred billion other suns; and our galaxy is one of untold billions in the universe. While we do not yet know how many, if any, other biospheres exist on the countless worlds orbiting countless other suns, we stand at the precipice of a new era of discovery, enabled by powerful new facilities able to peer across the light years into the atmospheres of planets similar to our own. This article is an adaptation of a science case document (SCDD) developed for the NASA Astrophysics Flagship mission the Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) Science, Technology, and Architecture Review Team (START) Living Worlds Community Working Group. |
| title | Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO): Living Worlds Community Working Group: The Search for Life on Potentially Habitable Exoplanets |
| topic | Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics Earth and Planetary Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09766 |