Astronomers Use New Methods in Search of Life in Our Universe - Missing Word Cloze
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Astronomers are continuing their
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for life in the universe with new methods. Recently, they have started to
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stars that have planets where life may be found. As there are billions of such stars outside our solar system there may be a chance of finding life. Every star has, on average, 1.6 planets
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Up to now astronomers have located about 400 stars that have the building
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of life - primarily the
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of liquid water. Only a handful have already been examined but, up to now, nothing has been found.
One of them, Gliese 581, is currently under
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by astronomers. It is a red dwarf star, one of the most
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in the Milky Way, about 20 light years away from Earth. Gliese 581 is about 10 billion years old and has a
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that is only a third of our sun’s. Of the six planets orbiting around the star, two of them may have Earth-like
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. One of them is about three or four times as big as our Earth and the right
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away from its sun to have life.
Australian astronomers have started to take a closer look at Gliese 581 by combining radio signals of several
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that are far apart from each other. Although the result was negative, the astronomers found out that this method provided an effective way of
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the universe, one small section at a time. It allows them to observe the area with great
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Patience is
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by astronomers because hundreds of thousands of searches of this kind must be done before there may be a positive result.
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