NASA On Alien Hunt: Soon To Build Telescope in Space

We all know that researchers are being conducted constantly to search for aliens, and to add to their research, scientists have confirmed that they are planning to build a telescope, which will help them to trace aliens on far-off planets, and confirm if they exist in space, in undiscovered areas.

The plan is to build a new, more powerful telescope that will be able to penetrate the atmosphere and will help them see the solar system and their planets up to around 30 light years. This satellite has been named as Advanced Technology Large Aperture Space Telescope or Atlast for short.

The ‘At last’ will be the largest ever built telescope, having the largest ever man-made mirror with 52 feet diameter, making the whole structure bigger than the 44 feet Hubble Space Telescope by four times. As the telescope will be enormous, it is not possible for any rocket to carry it into space. Thus, a team of special astronauts will be transported to the space, 1 million miles away, by the Onion rocket of NASA.

Martin Barstow, President, Royal Astronomical Society, will have a National Astronomy Meeting soon in Portsmouth, where he will reveal the details of the project. As per him, there are chances that this telescope will help them discover over 60 new planets in the solar system, and might help with crucial information on various other gases, including oxygen, that might indicate potential life somewhere in space. He said that using this telescope, they could see planets similar to earth, which might be 30 light years away from us. Apart from this, there are thousands of stars within this distance, out of which there is a possibility many might be sun-like. After finding the planet, the telescope will further analyze the gases like oxygen, methane, ozone, etc. in its atmosphere, thus indicating the possibility of life.

If NASA wants At the last telescope to move further from the first stage of planning, then all the nations on the globe will have to contribute with their experts and space agencies, with NASA being the biggest. The discussions are in progress with European Space Agency as target is 2030 for the launch.