The existence of purple bacteria may have shown the possibility that life on other planets does not need to have shades of green like Earth. The idea would be to look for shades of purple across the planets.
Roberta Duarte
Astrophysist - 18 articlesPhysicist and Master in Astrophysics from USP, Roberta is currently a PhD student in Astrophysics at the same university. She specialises in Computational Physics and Artificial Intelligence. She is currently working at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Astrophysics publishing the First AI Simulation of a Black Hole. Her work was recognised internationally and nationally, being disclosed by the federal government itself. She works mainly on prediction of magnetised fluids using AI, with astrophysics applications.
In 2021, she won a Best Artificial Intelligence Application award at M2L for this work. Recently, the work was one of those chosen to be presented at the Google event, Women in ML. She promotes science on social networks under the username @import_robs, with more than 100,000 people following her. She is also a screenwriter for the channel Ciência Todo Dia, where she writes about various subjects involving Physics and Artificial Intelligence. She has participated in several well-known podcasts and programs promoting Astronomy and AI.
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Light is the fastest thing in the Universe and has the same speed regardless of the reference frame. So why do we say it slows down when it's not in a vacuum?
A group of English researchers argue that molecules found on Earth and important for life originate in phenomena involving gravitational waves.
A study analysing stars that were born from the same molecular cloud shows that 1 in 12 stars may have swallowed a planet during its lifetime.
The EHT collaboration recently published a new image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way. In the image, it is possible to map the magnetic fields.
A study shows that stars that approached the Solar System in the past may have caused changes in the Earth's orbit as well as the climate.
Three moons have been discovered around the planets Uranus and Neptune. Two of them will be named after mythological sea creatures and the other will be named after a Shakespeare character.
Using artificial intelligence techniques, a Brazilian group participated in a team that managed to translate a charred papyrus from 2000 years ago. Project is part of the Vesuvius challenge that focuses on reading papyri from Herculaneum.
Results of The Dark Energy Survey were released and brought yet another mystery about dark energy. Dark energy appears to be much more complicated than we thought.
A galaxy is a collection of stars with gas, dust, dark matter, and a supermassive black hole at the center. What happens when a galaxy has no stars?
A group of astronomers have found evidence that Mars may still be volcanically active today. This would be a new discovery in Astronomy since, for decades, Mars was believed to be inactive.
After decades, humans will finally return to the Moon. The first manned mission is scheduled to take place in 2024, which will be a year considered a milestone in Astronomy.
Super-Earths are exoplanets that are more massive and larger than our planet but are smaller than giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn. The question that remains is: could a Super-Earth be the long-awaited Earth 2.0?
A new study conducted by Japanese universities indicates the possibility of an unknown planet in the Kuiper Belt. Here, we provide further information on this theory.
Using data from NEOWISE, a group of astronomers from Leiden in the Netherlands observed two planets colliding for the first time. The collision resulted in a new structure that had not been observed before. Furthermore, understanding this collision can give us an answer to how the Moon formed when the Earth was still young.