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DID CHINA DETECT SIGNALS FROM OUTER SPACE INTELLIGENT LIFE?

For my science Wednesday, I return to outer space.  It is more and more appearing that just about every star out there has a surrounding solar system, meaning planets, or, relative to us, extrasolar planets, or exoplanets.  In fact,  Forbes , speculated that for every star, there are from 100 to 100,000 planets.  Most of these are rogue planets in the spaces between stars.  The ones astrobiologists  are interested in for possible life must, of course, have a close-by star to provide energy. Any photos of them?   Actually one was announced  in April of this year, using the Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea, together with the Hubble Telescope.  Well, maybe not quite, as this a globe about 9 times the mass of Jupiter at an early stage of planet formation.  It was located circling star AB Aurigae located 508 light years away. If that counts as one, then now two, as the  James Webb Space Telescope  just reported imaging another. Exoplanet 65426 b has no chance for life, as it is a gas giant nin