We were treated to the latest life-discovered-on-an-exoplanet story in this morning’s newspaper:

The scare-quote artist’s impression on today’s big astrobiology breakthrough seems to take its design cues from a mash-up of the stoplight-red red dwarf Gliese 581:

and the halcyon golden-hour seas of Kepler 186-f:

The best part of the article, however, is the apparently unironic use of the, “I’m not saying it was aliens … but …”  construction: