Speculative Fiction Mind Map Assignment

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NASA scientists think distant worlds could be even stranger than fiction

NASA Scientists Are Looking For Life

"the next few years will see the launch of a new generation of spacecraft to search for planets around other stars. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the James Webb Space Telescope will attempt to determine what’s in the atmospheres of other planets. Then, in the next decade, the Wide Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) will bring us images of exoplanets around sun-like stars."

"In the "Star Wars" universe, Lucas and company envision scores of worlds bustling with intelligent beings. In our galaxy, we know of only one such world so far and it is planet Earth. But NASA exoplanet scientists think we have a fighting chance of finding life beyond our solar system."

a new generation to search for life and an introduction of new spacecraft to search for planets around the stars.

the possibility of desert worlds the availability of desert worlds that are unknown or have been found out but arent known among the majority of people

Desert worlds are not only a very real possibility, but they are probably very common, he said. They could be hot, like Tatooine and Jakku, or cold, like Mars and Jedha in “Rogue One."

this describes speculative fiction as a category as it touches all aspects surrounding it the uncertainty that its real the speculation etc

an example to a different planet in reference to star wars in which the planet is called tatooine

the comparisons of planets is a representation of a certain type of fiction

Quote from Article

"A real planet in our galaxy reminded scientists so much of Luke Skywalker’s home planet, they named it “Tatooine.” Officially called Kepler-16b, the Saturn-sized planet is about 200 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus. The reality of its two suns was so startling, George Lucas himself agreed to the astronomers’ nickname for the planet"