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Aliens On Pluto Rumours Gain Momentum As NASA Scientist Says 'Amazing' Announcement Ahead

Here's Why People Think NASA Has Found Aliens On Pluto
Nitya Rajan
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"This world is alive," a lead NASA researcher told a packed university hall on Monday.

According to The Guardian, Dr. Alan Stern a principal investigator for the New Horizons Mission was describing Pluto.

Prepping his audience -- and the world -- for more Pluto images and data, he said the New Horizons team were making an "amazing" announcement today.

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“Every week I am floored," he told the University of Alberta in Canada.

“Nasa won’t let me tell you what we’re going to tell you on Thursday. It’s amazing.”

However, NASA is yet to confirm the announcement. The agency usually trailers big news reveals and live streams press conferences detailing major findings.

In August Professor Brian Cox suggested the pictures of Pluto could reveal a subsurface ocean which in turn, could be a key indicator of life on the planet'

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His comments followed NASA's stunning gallery of images showing Pluto's icy mountain ranges as high as the Rockies.

In an interview with The Times, Cox explained how recent pictures captured by the New Horizons probe could act as evidence for life on the dwarf planet.

"The probe 'showed you that there may well be a subsurface ocean on Pluto," he told The Times.

"[This] means - if our understanding of life on Earth is even slightly correct - that you could have living things there."

PLUTO AND CHARON
Pluto Moon(01 of11)
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This image released by NASA on Thursday, Oct. 1, 2015, shows Charon, in enhanced color captured by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft just before closest approach on July 14, 2015. Massive canyons and fractures are clearly visible on Charon, which is more than half of Plutoâs size. (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI via AP) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Space Pluto(02 of11)
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This July 14, 2015 photo released by NASA on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015 shows the atmosphere and surface features of Pluto, lit from behind by the sun. It was made 15 minutes after the New Horizons' spacecraft's closest approach. (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI via AP) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Space Pluto(03 of11)
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This July 14, 2015 photo released by NASA on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015 shows the atmosphere and surface features of Pluto, lit from behind by the sun. It was made 15 minutes after the New Horizons' spacecraft's closest approach. (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI via AP) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Pluto(04 of11)
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This July 14, 2015, photo provided by NASA shows a synthetic perspective view of Pluto, based on the latest high-resolution images to be downlinked from NASAâs New Horizons spacecraft. The new close-up images of Pluto reveal an even more diverse landscape than scientists imagined before New Horizons swept past Pluto in July. (NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute via AP) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Pluto(05 of11)
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This July 14, 2015, photo provided by NASA shows a 220-mile (350-kilometer) wide view of Pluto taken from NASAâs New Horizons spacecraft. The new close-up images of Pluto reveal an even more diverse landscape than scientists imagined before New Horizons swept past Pluto in July. (NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute via AP) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Space Pluto(06 of11)
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This image made available by NASA on Friday, July 24, 2015 shows a combination of images captured by the New Horizons spacecraft with enhanced colors to show differences in the composition and texture of Pluto's surface. The images were taken when the spacecraft was 280,000 miles (450,000 kilometers) away. (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI via AP) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Space Pluto(07 of11)
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This July 15, 2015 image made available by NASA on Friday, July 24, 2015 shows the atmosphere of Pluto backlit by the sun when the New Horizons spacecraft was about 1.25 million miles (2 million kilometers) away. The image, delivered to Earth on July 23, is displayed with north at the top of the frame. (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI via AP) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Space Pluto(08 of11)
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This image made available by NASA on Friday, July 24, 2015 shows Pluto made by combining several images from two cameras on the New Horizons spacecraft. The images were taken when the spacecraft was 280,000 miles (450,000 kilometers) away from Pluto. (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI via AP) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Pluto(09 of11)
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This image was taken on July 14, 2015, by New Horizonsâ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) from a distance of 48,000 miles (77,000 kilometers) shows a newly discovered mountain range near the southwestern margin of Plutoâs Tombaugh Regio (Tombaugh Region), situated between bright, icy plains and dark, heavily-cratered terrain. The image was received on Earth on July 20. (NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI via AP) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Pluto(10 of11)
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This July 14, 2015 photo provided by NASA shows an image taken from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft showing a new close-up image from the heart-shaped feature on the surface of Pluto that reveals a vast, craterless plain. (NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI via AP) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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This photo taken Tuesday, July 14, 2015, at approximately 6:30 a.m. EDT, shows Pluto's largest moon Charon, left, with a captivating feature, a depression with a peak in the middle, shown in the upper left corner of the inset image at right. (NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI via AP) (credit:ASSOCIATED PRESS)
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