An exoplanet (artist's illustration) that's home to living organisms might not look green. Credit: Mark Garlick/SPL Green light isn't the only green flag to search for life on other planets. A new guidebook will help astronomers to look for purple, brown, orange and yellow hues reflected from worlds dominated by certain kinds of bacteria1.
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An exoplanet (artist's illustration) that's home to living organisms might not look green. Credit: Mark Garlick/SPL 
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