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By now you’ve heard about the detection of phosphine on Venus, and how this may indicate there is life in the upper clouds of the Venusian atmosphere.



But what IS phosphine? What kind of life on earth produces this gas–and what kind of life would make it in the extremely acidic clouds of our nearest planetary neighbor?



Sources cited in this ever-growing twitter thread:



Original Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1174-4



RAS press briefing on the discovery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1u-jlf_Olo



NASA Venus Mission concept: https://youtu.be/0az7DEwG68A



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Phosphine has been discovered in the clouds of Venus. What could this mean from a biochemistry perspective?