This artistic impression depicts our Solar System neighbour Venus, where scientists have confirmed the detection of phosphine molecules, a representation of which is shown in the inset. The molecules were detected in the Venusian high clouds in data from the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array, in which ESO is a partner.  Astronomers have speculated for decades that life could exist in Venus’s high clouds. The detection of phosphine could point to such extra-terrestrial “aerial” life.

Molécula rara em Vênus pode sinalizar presença de vida extraterrestre, dizem astrônomos

Um grupo internacional de astrônomos anunciou nesta segunda-feira (14) a presença da fosfina na atmosfera venusiana. O estudo foi publicado

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