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What is ThousandWorlds? Opportunities for the ML community Come see our worlds! Dataset · Code · Paper
There's a good chance we find alien life in the next 20 years, possibly much sooner...
An entire subfield of astronomy, exoplanetary science, has arisen with this goal as its north star. And it is one of the fastest-growing.
We (and many exoplaneteers!) think our best hope for achieving it runs roughly like so: 1) scan the galaxy for as many potentially habitable planets as possible 2) detect the gases in their atmospheres with powerful telescopes like JWST and 3) infer from these gases whether life is present or not.
