Move over Milky Way, elliptical galaxies are the most habitable in the cosmos
Wednesday, September 2, 2015 - 07:30
in Astronomy & Space
The search for extraterrestrial life is surely one of the most important tasks we humans can undertake. However, the cosmos is vast and we don't really have any idea which bits of it are actually habitable. But what if we could target the search? We have built the first-ever "cosmobiological" model mapping the galaxies in our local universe to help us understand which ones are habitable. Surprisingly, we found that our own galaxy was not one of the top candidates.