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The earth's surface is covered with green plants and bacteria, which absorb a lot of red light and reflect a lot of visible and infrared light from the sun.
This leads to this really cool feature of life on earth: the red edge.
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Jan Ingenhousz published the research on photosynthesis in 1779.
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It might be blue, or not even visible light.
The researchers' goal was to figure out where future telescopes should look for a red edge, or whatever color it is.
These findings could help scientists find vegetation on other planets in the next few decades.
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Until recently, blue-green algae were thought to be the first organisms to photosynthesize, about 2.7 billion years ago.
In a 2018 study, scientists found out that ancient microbes have been photosynthesizing 1 billion years earlier than thought.
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Would chlorophyll's green pigment still be the best? or would plants be a different color?
New research published uses numerical models of chemistry and physics of photosynthesis to find the optimal wavelengths of light.
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