Astronomers Use New Methods in Search of Life in Our Universe - Missing Word Cloze

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Astronomers are continuing their for life in the universe with new methods. Recently, they have started to 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 them.

Up to now astronomers have located about 400 stars that have the building of life - primarily the 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 by astronomers. It is a red dwarf star, one of the most in the Milky Way, about 20 light years away from Earth. Gliese 581 is about 10 billion years old and has a that is only a third of our sun’s. Of the six planets orbiting around the star, two of them may have Earth-like . One of them is about three or four times as big as our Earth and the right 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 that are far apart from each other. Although the result was negative, the astronomers found out that this method provided an effective way of the universe, one small section at a time. It allows them to observe the area with great .

Patience is by astronomers because hundreds of thousands of searches of this kind must be done before there may be a positive result.