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| We Can Find Alien Life Within 25 Years, Astrophysicist Claims
"This time-frame, he argues, is ambitious but not "unrealistic"." via unexplained-mysteries image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech The James Webb Space Telescope may not find evidence of alien life, but the next telescope probably will. Sasha Quanz - an astrophysicist at Switzerland's federal technology institute ETH Zurich - recently suggsted that we could find evidence of life on other worlds within as little as 25 years. This time-frame, he argues, is ambitious but not "unrealistic". Speaking during a press briefing earlier this month, Quanz maintains that the James Webb Space Telescope - which is the most powerful telescope ever launched into space - probably won't be able to directly image the types of small, Earth-like worlds on which life is most likely to be found. That said, however, new instruments are currently being developed that will be able to fulfill this role. The mid-infrared ELT imager and spectrograph (METIS), for example, will eventually become a part of the Extremely