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  • Other galaxies my contain extra-terrestrial life, but that life might be hiding. (NASA, Wikimedia Commons)
    Is ET Hiding?
    Paul Patton
    We are closer than ever to finding inhabited worlds. When an alien planet passes in front of its star, an event that's called a transit, there is a small dip in the intensity of starlight that astronomers use to detect the planet.