Possible sign of life on Venus Welcome to my blog "Mystery of Galaxy" . Today's topic is" Is phosphine the sign of life on Venus?" Venus Source: Pablo Carlos Budassi / CC BY-SA Finding signs of life on other planets beyond the Earth would be away of answering the biggest questions that we've had as a species so far. Where do we come from? Are we alone? Deep within the acid clouds above Venus, astronomers have detected something new, a gas that could be a sign of life. The gas is phosphine, a toxic molecule with an odor of garlic and dead fish. Astronomers discovered the compound in a cloud layer where temperatures are fairly close to those on earth's surface. Phosphine is exciting because of where it comes from. On earth, it's either manufactured by humans, or it's a natural byproduct of life. It just doesn't show up anywhere else, and there's no human manufacturing on Venus. Phosphine is not sure fireproof there are alien microbes on t...
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