Forget “Earth-Like”—We’ll First Find Aliens on Eyeball Planets
by Sean Raymond
May 22, 2018
4 minutes
Imagine a habitable planet orbiting a distant star. You’re probably picturing a variation of Earth. Maybe it’s a little cloudier, or covered in oceans. Maybe the mountains are a little higher. Maybe the trees are red instead of green. Maybe there are scantily clad natives…OK, let’s stop there.
That image may very well be completely off-base. There is good reason to think that the first potentially life-bearing worlds that are now being detected around other stars (see for example) probably look very different than Earth. Rather, these planets are more likely to look like giant
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