Are we the only ones in the universe? Is that why it is so eerily quiet in our part of the galaxy? Or do alien creatures, lightyears away, feel the warmth of a star just like we do? Lauded Professor of Astrochemistry Ewine van Dishoeck expects that all speculation about this will come to an end before the end of the century.

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