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Which icy moon of Jupiter is considered a prime target for finding extraterrestrial life?
Answer: Europa
Why: Europa's global subsurface ocean is estimated to hold twice as much liquid water as all of Earth's oceans combined.
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What term describes a planet found outside our solar system?
Answer: Exoplanet
Why: The first confirmed ones turned up in 1992 around a pulsar, betrayed by tiny shifts in the timing of its radio pulses.
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Which science fiction novel inspired the Dyson sphere?
Answer: Star Maker
Why: Dyson thought it should be called a Stapledon sphere, and warned that a solid shell is impossible: he meant a swarm of orbiting collectors.
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Which NASA rover searches for ancient life in Jezero Crater?
Answer: Perseverance
Why: Perseverance drills and seals rock cores in titanium tubes so future missions can bring them to Earth.
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In the Zoo Hypothesis, why do advanced aliens avoid contact?
Answer: Observing without interference
Why: John Ball proposed it in 1973, and noted that finding any alien civilization would disprove it, while no observation could ever confirm it.
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Which exoplanet orbits the star closest to our sun?
Answer: Proxima Centauri b
Why: Announced in 2016, it laps its star every 11 days from about a twentieth of the Earth to sun distance, 4.2 light years away.
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