Artistic representation of Kepler-186f. Image: NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-Caltech
The moon journeys proved that living beings are able to leave their world and to reach other heavenly bodies
It is difficult to decide which is more astonishing: the sensational results of the space research or the restrained echo in the public. So far astronomers have discovered over 1800 alien worlds. They are called exoplanets or extrasolar stellar companions. These are planetary stars like the Earth, but orbiting other suns. Almost weekly there are more. The consequence of the results is obviously misjudged. Otherwise the milestones of the research had to cause quite a stir.