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.

Two powerful instruments are about to change the human view of space forever. "These new telescopes will allow us to focus on the exoplanets that have been discovered in recent years," says van Dishoeck. 

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