It’s Probably Not Aliens on Venus… But It Could Be | SciShow News

Is there life on Venus? If there is, it would have to be unlike anything we’ve ever seen! New evidence means the possibility of life there is in question, but it could also mean a few other things. Thanks to Fasthosts for sponsoring this episode. Win your Ultimate Tech Bundle by entering Fasthosts’ Techie Test here: https://www.fasthosts.co.uk/scishowspace Hosted by: Caitlin Hofmeister SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Main Paper (free to read) - https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1174-4 Microbe life cycle (free to read) - https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ast.2020.2244 https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.05224 https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/venus/in-depth/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X1500504X http://astrobiology.com/2020/09/phosphine-detected-in-the-atmosphere-of-venus---an-indicator-of-possible-life.html Images: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30357 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Magellan_orbit.jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12729 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JCMT_on_Mauna_Kea.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Atacama_Compact_Array.jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20190 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13339 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20308 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13640 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3728 http://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2020/04/Bepi_before_space