Alien Life Could Thrive in the Clouds of Failed Stars
Feb 05, 2016
There’s an abundant new swath of cosmic real estate that life could call home—and the views would be spectacular. Floating out by themselves in the Milky Way galaxy are perhaps a billion cold brown dwarfs, objects many times as massive as Jupiter but not big enough to ignite as a star. According to a new study, layers of their upper atmospheres sit at temperatures and pressures resembling those on Earth, and could host microbes that surf on thermal updrafts.
Article: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/12/alien-life-could-thrive-clouds-failed-stars
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