Written by: Simone Shree Pathak - 22023, Grade VII
Posted on: 02 April, 2019
Are aliens real? I don't know, no one has even seen them. But I believe in aliens. Discovering alien life is imaginable, like how it would be known that someone lives in the universe. NASA’s chief scientist Ellen Stofan says that such a finding is not so far off. She expects that we will find an indication of life within the next decade. She also says that we will find evidence that there is a life in the universe. NASA says that if there is water there is life and it turns out that the universe outer part beyond the galaxy is way bigger and there might be life.
NASA also said that ”If there are aliens we will find out but don’t expect little green men." In my opinion, I feel aliens exist. Space is so enormous that the chance of these being intelligent life somewhere in outer space is pretty good. That's because there are billions and billions of planets in our galaxy alone and some of those are considered Earth-like by NASA because they have a lot of the same conditions as Earth. Scientists have been searching for planets like Earth.
Through there searching they have found the really good stuff. In 2015, a NASA mission found the first planet that might be a candidate for supporting life. That planet name was Kepler 452b, which they’re calling as Earth 2.0. It is about the same size as Earth and it is at the right distance from its sun to support intelligent life. It also has a rocky surface that could support water in plants and Earth 2.0. isn’t the only candidate as recently as on February 2017, NASA discovered seven more Earth-like planets while searching through space. NASA even discovered an interstellar object which they say is from another solar system. When they thought for observation it was an asteroid with a weird shape. The asteroid is 400m long and 40m wide and NASA even said none of the asteroids in our solar system looks like that.
So, I don’t know if it's true that there is an existence of alien or not but I do believe in them. And about the interstellar object, there is so much to learn and there is limited time as it is way out of the solar system. It was named 2017 U1 and NASA says it's fading fast, relatively the object is very small and it's very dim but I’m sure NASA can grab the information before it fades away
