People thousands of years from now will watch this video as a relic of one of the first people to communicate about a world where humanity first detected alien life.
Just wanted to say, I'm extremely grateful that all your videos have subtitles. Even as someone who's very comfortable with English as their second language, I find a multitude of advantages to having subtitles on. It lets me listen to your videos more quietly when people are sleeping nearby, shows the spelling of difficult surnames that are common when dealing with internationally conducted science, and lets me easily come back to what you were talking about in case I doze off for a few seconds, just to name a few upsides. As someone who has made subtitles himself, I know that it can be annoying and sometimes leaves you wondering if people even use them, so I just want to say that I (alongside many other people) appreciate it a lot.
The veritable tip of an unimaginably large cosmic iceberg; so much to discover. Your channel is one of only a handful i trust for its balanced content on RUclips. Great stuff sir, long may you continue.
It's great that this is such a nearby system. That should theoretically make it easy to do further studies and pick up some more solid data on this planet. Whether there's life or not, this is JWST making back its budget yet again. The thing was worth every penny.
Given just one new semiconductor factory cost the same $10 billion it is certainly money well spent. Hopefully costs & funding go well for ESA’s LISA. That has potential to have an even larger impact on our understanding. It’s a bargain at only $2-2.5 billion.
Amazing turnaround time on this one! Your delivery of the relevant facts and trending idiologies regarding a topic that can easily be misconstrued is the thing I value the most about your videos. Good work 😊
Agreed, great point. The ideas advanced in these videos are so forward thinking and ground breaking that when I try to share the videos with friends/family who consider themselges intelligent and understanding science oftentimes accuse me of sharing science fiction rather than sharing actual scientific research and modern theory. Kind of funny, but also sad.
The only problem with telescopes in general is the competition for time use and for any observations on G type or K type exoplanets within their respective habitable zones requires a long time of observations like on the order of 225-260 days for K type star exoplanets and 320-390 days for G type days and unfortunately nobody is getting that dedicated time. Looking at red dwarf exoplanets is a breeze compared.
In addition to the deserved props given to JWST, I'd also like to recognize the contribution of Kepler. Without Kepler, particularly the fact that Kepler is tough as nails and came back for a 2nd life after being nearly abandoned due to a mechanical issue, K2-18b, and indeed any target beginning in K2 (Kepler's 2nd life) wouldn't even be on our radar to study. So amazing to see the legacy of Kepler and the power of JWST working in sync. Science rocks :)
I have to work so can only play at weekends, just left Kreet with 650,000 credits and a fleet of 4 ships... Lookout Mars, im coming to explore you next, only 998 planets to go after that
John I have been listening to at least 4 to 5 of your videos every night. You're absolutely fantastic. Going to check out your books once I get through all your videos. Thanks for all of your work. Looking forward to spooky October
This is an incredible find and extends the Kepler legacy. These Hycean planets were mere theory until not long ago and are quite fascinating with a mostly hydrogen atmosphere and potentially water laden. This one is in the habitable zone which makes it even more interesting. Now it has Di-methyl Sulfide, something only produced by life here on Earth. However this discovery needs confirmation and these Hycean worlds are so radically new that their possible range of chemical reactions have not been worked out yet, so this still could be a natural product of the planet's chemical reactions. This planet is should be a top 10 candidate worthy of extensive further study.
Just thought I’d let you know that I mentioned you in one of my tiktok videos ranking my favourite youtubers. You are at the number 2 spot tied with ‘Scott the woz’ Thanks for your content bro. Its incredible.
Aloha. They think they detected DMS (Dimethylsulfid). Thats produced only by Bacteria here on earth. It just needs a stronger , more reliable detection. So they will do serveral deep followups. I wish for detection of life. 😊
It's so interesting to see not only this discovery but also what else can be revealed from it. Are we witnessing a planet in it's Hadeon period, or potentially an ultra-industrialized civilization nearing it's collapse? Neat stuff, John!
@@LudwigVaanArthansBut if there’s plankton there could be life feeding on those plankton. It’s fascinating to think about what life could be in those oceans.
Omg!! Yes! One of my favorite notifications to get! And I forgot I had heard some buzz from others ... so excited to hear about it! Thank you for all you do! Great as always!! 🍻🌎❤️🎶🕺
Great work, very serious as it should be. It's hard to find videos with this amount of information. you also say things as they are known/not known/ or speculated, and you are very clear on which is which. No click bait. Your channel is great, I'm happy to have found it.
I bet these types of discussions and findings are going to be come common place. We are starting to find potential signs, as predicted. Thank you for the video.
I think you mean the timbre of his voice and his soothing intonation? I’m sorry, but his speech is not “mellifluous.” Speaking in a predicable, idiosyncratic cadence that barely spans one octave is as mellifluous as a cricket
Another great video that sums up a topic without all the ridiculous hype. It'd be a shame if no one can actually meet each other, but as they are only 124 light years from us, they should be receiving our radio signals soon. In about half a century there'll be an outbreak Beatlemania on K2-18b!
unfortunately its not "only" 124 light years is actually quite far and we are not able to reach it with our current technology during any reasonable timeframe :/
One must realise that light-speed travel is only *theoretically* possible within current understanding of physics if the traveller has zero mass. This indicates that humans will never travel at light-speed even in the best case scenario. When people spend 6 months in space they’re usually useless, with very few exceptions. Some astronauts train on earth for years only to return from space within the first few days due to profuse vomiting linked with the inherent lack of “up” which we evolved with on earth and take for granted. Also, why do you assume any advanced foreign life exists anywhere in the universe?
@@Amatsuichiperhaps we ought to be less magnanimous and accept that “silicon-based” life with “AI” is the natural evolution of humans and is much more clearly suited to long-distance space expeditions. People also forget that when travelling faster, any matter in the path of the spaceship is a far more significant threat. Perhaps a slower form of transport is simultaneously more pragmatic and scientifically viable. The fact is, much of the universe will always be inaccessible with any level of detail, by “design”. Why are we so attached to the notion that our biology must persist for life as we know it to have been significant?
I have a feeling its some kind of natural chemical reaction we don't know much about yet (not life related) and this is just the first planet like this found.
@@tetsuoakira8294 if it is life in the form of an algae that would be interesting on how it works with a red dwarf star (not enough light?) and having potentially a very thick atmosphere and pressures. It could also be some sort of fungi maybe.
Just wanna say I was here, future people. Super exited for a non empty universe, while also being troubled by the negative possibilities. Interesting to see how future filters might be extrapolated from potential guesses of life frequency if we now have our first 'range' of habitability between our (known) extremes. Really hope this can be verified either way in the future.
future filter? Like being able to 3d print nuclear weapons at home with a $99 printer from walmart? What could go wrong with the progression of technology? Nobody would ever create new diseases with it and blame it on an animal.
The density of Mars is 3.something g/cm^3 in contrast to Earth’s 5.something This planet has a density estimate of roughly 2.6 +\- 0.5 The intriguing thing for me is the metallicity of the star and the young age estimate for that system.
The planet is a 120 light years away, meaning what we’re seeing today happened over a hundred years ago. Just makes you think about the incredible vastness off space
All the exoplanets we discover are from systems that have their plane precisely aligned with Earth, right? Imagine the amount of habitable exoplanets which don't.
i wonder if most exoplanets with life have fish. i could imagine if fish were the dominant form of life in the universe. fish or sea creatures. i wonder what kinda oogley boogley looking creatures there may be out there. theyre already oogley boogley enough on this planet.
Hopefully this has legs. Any theories on what life out there is like are basically based on pure speculation, and while this would be huge, perhaps the biggest discovery ever if true, there still would be a lot of mystery, though this may sharpen parameters a tiny, tiny bit. All of that to preamble my thought/theory: to me, factoring the amount of time life took to become complex, the apparent suddenness of the Cambrian explosion, how complex intelligence appears to be, Earth getting “lucky” several times with extinction events not rendering it totally uninhabitable…I’ve always thought it wouldn’t be a stretch to say humans may be the tip of the spear when it comes to life, at least in our galaxy. Civilizations may only be a 1 in 10 galaxy type thing. Would be a lonely existence for sure. But the fact no one in the universe can truly see the present would make it hard to discover if there were more, in addition to being a very trippy concept when you really think about it. Shower thoughts over.
Yeah it boggles my mind how if we were somehow able to observe a planet 300m light years away, by the time the light reaches us an entire civilisation could have risen and fallen and we’d have no idea, we’d just see an empty planet.
I love the use of the word 'cool', as it makes the commentary even 'cooler'...... ".... A very cool star" ... Its significally cooler..." ... Lol, its great, cause it actually is.... 'cool'😊
So surreal seeing the name for the first time, knowing it could be the entire world that someone of the future would know, someones HOME, And right now its just called k2-18b.
My favorite part of space exploration is finding out a craft not purpose built for a specific function can somehow excel in one very specific way. All my bets are on JWST, what an amazing time to be Human!
"life in the universe is common but the civilizations that can leave their planet r rare" is actually imo the best scenario possible. Knowing you're not alone but still the coolest dude around? Hell yeah. I would rather find 100000 species of fucked up dolphins than 1 all consuming alien swarm thank you.
Red Dwarfs are great. You could get a permanent tan in like 1 nano second but you would not be at the beach because all the water and atmosphere would have been long ago blown away by the frequent super flares. Great fun.
11:20 I'm wondering what would be the chemical structure of any life on a Hycean planet, as well as how such life would extract energy from its environment.
To me this seems like the best candidate we've seen so far for extraterrestrial life. Probably not a technological civilization though. The planet being younger than the earth by almost 2 billion years is one reason. The likelihood that it's entirely covered by oceans is another. Photosynthesizing life like phytoplankton or algae might be present though, and if so, that could be the base of a food chain for larger animals. I'm sure that even better candidates exist, it's just still hard to see them with our current technology and the enormous distances between stars. But I think we will find them in the coming decades.
When we do eventually do find concrete evidence of an exoplanet biosphere I shall enter a terrible melancholy, for I shall never set foot upon that world, nor see it with my own eyes.
I think James Webb is going to find life sooner or later. We know there are planets around almost every star, so JW will have plenty of places to search. Unless life is incredibly rare, we'll find it.
People thousands of years from now will watch this video as a relic of one of the first people to communicate about a world where humanity first detected alien life.
That would be so cool, this really is an exciting time for astrobiology
Hey future Bros and Broettes! How's that astronomy paper coming along? Lol, I'm dead. I so definitely dead.
I want to believe
If humans don't destroy themselves by then...
@@Post-Truth_Cephalopodalthough to them we may be long dead… we are connected through time
Just wanted to say, I'm extremely grateful that all your videos have subtitles.
Even as someone who's very comfortable with English as their second language, I find a multitude of advantages to having subtitles on. It lets me listen to your videos more quietly when people are sleeping nearby, shows the spelling of difficult surnames that are common when dealing with internationally conducted science, and lets me easily come back to what you were talking about in case I doze off for a few seconds, just to name a few upsides. As someone who has made subtitles himself, I know that it can be annoying and sometimes leaves you wondering if people even use them, so I just want to say that I (alongside many other people) appreciate it a lot.
I agree with the comment, thanks for your work! Greetings from 🇦🇷 !
I'm deaf (hearing aids work, but meh). Channels with subtitles, and those who CC sounds... Thank you
💯
What planet are you inhabiting?
Can confirm, subtitles are a big help for non native speakers, thanks JMG
Thanks for all your hard work John. One of my favorite channels on RUclips.
Amazing work!
The veritable tip of an unimaginably large cosmic iceberg; so much to discover.
Your channel is one of only a handful i trust for its balanced content on RUclips.
Great stuff sir, long may you continue.
Long Live JMG
A late night exoplanet update. Love to see it.
It's great that this is such a nearby system. That should theoretically make it easy to do further studies and pick up some more solid data on this planet. Whether there's life or not, this is JWST making back its budget yet again. The thing was worth every penny.
It's a million billion miles away. that's not exactly close, my friend
Given just one new semiconductor factory cost the same $10 billion it is certainly money well spent.
Hopefully costs & funding go well for ESA’s LISA. That has potential to have an even larger impact on our understanding. It’s a bargain at only $2-2.5 billion.
@@jimreaper1337cosmically they’re the neighbors down the hall
@@jimreaper1337on a cosmological scale it's close as fuck.
@@jimreaper1337that's still a walk in the park in cosmic scales
Amazing turnaround time on this one! Your delivery of the relevant facts and trending idiologies regarding a topic that can easily be misconstrued is the thing I value the most about your videos. Good work 😊
Agreed, great point. The ideas advanced in these videos are so forward thinking and ground breaking that when I try to share the videos with friends/family who consider themselges intelligent and understanding science oftentimes accuse me of sharing science fiction rather than sharing actual scientific research and modern theory. Kind of funny, but also sad.
i think i've watched all of your videos and event horizon videos. you make the best content on youtube. all superb, utterly brilliant.
The only problem with telescopes in general is the competition for time use and for any observations on G type or K type exoplanets within their respective habitable zones requires a long time of observations like on the order of 225-260 days for K type star exoplanets and 320-390 days for G type days and unfortunately nobody is getting that dedicated time. Looking at red dwarf exoplanets is a breeze compared.
it can and is being calculated, look at webb's schedule, they have various 1-2 weeks of furious searches through G-types.. but for what i dont know..
I believe they also have time allotted for "surprises"...wonder if the search for life qualifies. 🤔
In addition to the deserved props given to JWST, I'd also like to recognize the contribution of Kepler. Without Kepler, particularly the fact that Kepler is tough as nails and came back for a 2nd life after being nearly abandoned due to a mechanical issue, K2-18b, and indeed any target beginning in K2 (Kepler's 2nd life) wouldn't even be on our radar to study. So amazing to see the legacy of Kepler and the power of JWST working in sync. Science rocks :)
That was an epic ‘in which we liiiiiiiiive’ makes me chuckle every time 😆
We are duty bound to name the first Waterworld confirmed to have life Costner.
Love it
Yes!!! So much yes!!! You are an absolute treasure keep the vids coming!!
Thank you for what you do sir. It's not very often to hear information on any RUclips channel as intelligent as yours.
Just got done playing Starfield for the evening and a video on possible life in nearby systems from JMG pops up. Good looks John.
I have to work so can only play at weekends, just left Kreet with 650,000 credits and a fleet of 4 ships... Lookout Mars, im coming to explore you next, only 998 planets to go after that
From the comments I've read you should be learning about astrobiology and astrophysics rather playing video games.
@@douglaswilkinson5700timeout Dougie
Thanks for the update John. It's all very exciting
The “Liiiiive” at the end of this video was perfect in tone and duration 😁🤣
John I have been listening to at least 4 to 5 of your videos every night.
You're absolutely fantastic. Going to check out your books once I get through all your videos.
Thanks for all of your work. Looking forward to spooky October
This is an incredible find and extends the Kepler legacy. These Hycean planets were mere theory until not long ago and are quite fascinating with a mostly hydrogen atmosphere and potentially water laden. This one is in the habitable zone which makes it even more interesting. Now it has Di-methyl Sulfide, something only produced by life here on Earth. However this discovery needs confirmation and these Hycean worlds are so radically new that their possible range of chemical reactions have not been worked out yet, so this still could be a natural product of the planet's chemical reactions. This planet is should be a top 10 candidate worthy of extensive further study.
They found chemicals that indicate the burning of fuels too
Just thought I’d let you know that I mentioned you in one of my tiktok videos ranking my favourite youtubers. You are at the number 2 spot tied with ‘Scott the woz’ Thanks for your content bro. Its incredible.
I can't help but be excited about this. I'm looking forward to more news on this planet. Thanks for the video!
Great video as always I was waiting for you to make this video since I heard the news
JMG is one the most underrated science channels. Found you through Isaac Arthur. Keep up the good work.
As soon as I read the articles I was so hyped for this video! Amazing work John!❤❤
Here we go, been waiting for this!
Aloha. They think they detected DMS (Dimethylsulfid). Thats produced only by Bacteria here on earth. It just needs a stronger , more reliable detection. So they will do serveral deep followups. I wish for detection of life. 😊
Awesome! Saw the announcement of this find and was hoping you’d cover it!
I find all this soo interesting! Like thinking of all the different kinds of worlds and life's there are out there!
I can't wait for the 2 hour discussion on Event Horizon with one of the scientists working on the data.
Hmm, you might not have to wait too long ....
Remarkable! 2 possible biosignatures or even technosignatures. Can't wait to hear more!
It's so interesting to see not only this discovery but also what else can be revealed from it. Are we witnessing a planet in it's Hadeon period, or potentially an ultra-industrialized civilization nearing it's collapse? Neat stuff, John!
I'm thinking they didn't ban fossil fuels
Being just 110 light years away, I think we would already have picked more than a few signals if it was a civilization of any kind.
If it proves to be a biosignature, most likely just that planet's version of phytoplankton
@@LudwigVaanArthansBut if there’s plankton there could be life feeding on those plankton. It’s fascinating to think about what life could be in those oceans.
@@LudwigVaanArthans 'just? Even if it was 'just' bacteria it's huge news.
Omg!! Yes! One of my favorite notifications to get! And I forgot I had heard some buzz from others ... so excited to hear about it! Thank you for all you do! Great as always!! 🍻🌎❤️🎶🕺
Amazing stuff John. We live in an exciting era.
I wondered when an episode about this was coming thank you JMG
Nice new here i like your voice daddy.
Great report, John.
Very exciting.
Incredibly thought-stimulating information here. Great as always!
Great work, very serious as it should be. It's hard to find videos with this amount of information. you also say things as they are known/not known/ or speculated, and you are very clear on which is which. No click bait. Your channel is great, I'm happy to have found it.
It's a good idea to temper our expectations, but this is very cool! Thank you for the video and all your great content!
I think we should start building a Super SpaceX-1 and head there as soon as possible... all of us... well, except illegals, of course
@@t.c.2776 no 'illegals' in space
Ahhh, now I can sleep. Thank you for your sleep giving voice. It's exactly what I needed.
This is super exciting! Even if there are no weird alien fish it’s at least a really cool bizarre planet. Feeling grateful for JWST.
Damnit! Four minutes old and I'm already deep in the comments.
It's a mark of how much we like John that we all rush for that privilege.
You're only four minutes old? Came out of the womb with your priorities straight!
Thanks JMG for clearing this up! As always, love hearing your work!!!! XXOO
Fascinating indeed! Thanks a bunch, John!!! 😃
Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Awesome, thanks John.
Love all your videos, keep ‘em coming! ❤
Life locked to its planet....never thought of that. Good one.
Looking forward to next month because of you, Mr. October content king 👑
Great video, John.
I bet these types of discussions and findings are going to be come common place. We are starting to find potential signs, as predicted. Thank you for the video.
How does this man keep producing such quality content at this rate? He's a god-send.
Very exciting! Just the fact that we can now study exoplanet atmospheres is incredibly cool.
Really appreciate you always bringing your mellifluous tones to us alongside the cutting edge discoveries of our age. Cheers.
I think you mean the timbre of his voice and his soothing intonation? I’m sorry, but his speech is not “mellifluous.” Speaking in a predicable, idiosyncratic cadence that barely spans one octave is as mellifluous as a cricket
Another great video that sums up a topic without all the ridiculous hype. It'd be a shame if no one can actually meet each other, but as they are only 124 light years from us, they should be receiving our radio signals soon. In about half a century there'll be an outbreak Beatlemania on K2-18b!
unfortunately its not "only" 124 light years is actually quite far and we are not able to reach it with our current technology during any reasonable timeframe :/
One must realise that light-speed travel is only *theoretically* possible within current understanding of physics if the traveller has zero mass. This indicates that humans will never travel at light-speed even in the best case scenario. When people spend 6 months in space they’re usually useless, with very few exceptions. Some astronauts train on earth for years only to return from space within the first few days due to profuse vomiting linked with the inherent lack of “up” which we evolved with on earth and take for granted.
Also, why do you assume any advanced foreign life exists anywhere in the universe?
@@Amatsuichi I think they know it's quite far away lol; they said our radio signals will reach them soon.
@@Amatsuichiperhaps we ought to be less magnanimous and accept that “silicon-based” life with “AI” is the natural evolution of humans and is much more clearly suited to long-distance space expeditions. People also forget that when travelling faster, any matter in the path of the spaceship is a far more significant threat. Perhaps a slower form of transport is simultaneously more pragmatic and scientifically viable. The fact is, much of the universe will always be inaccessible with any level of detail, by “design”. Why are we so attached to the notion that our biology must persist for life as we know it to have been significant?
@@AmatsuichiThey said "only" because they were speaking in terms of radio signals.
As soon as I seen this news drop I was hoping for a JMG video on it!
I have a feeling its some kind of natural chemical reaction we don't know much about yet (not life related) and this is just the first planet like this found.
And I have a feeling it's life, like covered in an algae producing this effect. It's all just a "feeling."
Totally plausible. Regardless of whether there's life there, there will be such unknowns to discover as well.
@@dot1298no - it’s 124 light years away.
@@dot1298To far
@@tetsuoakira8294 if it is life in the form of an algae that would be interesting on how it works with a red dwarf star (not enough light?) and having potentially a very thick atmosphere and pressures. It could also be some sort of fungi maybe.
Man I love your channel.
Thanks John, you help me make me think bigger.
Wow, this is very intriguing. I will look forward to future updates!
Just wanna say I was here, future people.
Super exited for a non empty universe, while also being troubled by the negative possibilities.
Interesting to see how future filters might be extrapolated from potential guesses of life frequency if we now have our first 'range' of habitability between our (known) extremes.
Really hope this can be verified either way in the future.
future filter? Like being able to 3d print nuclear weapons at home with a $99 printer from walmart? What could go wrong with the progression of technology? Nobody would ever create new diseases with it and blame it on an animal.
The density of Mars is 3.something g/cm^3 in contrast to Earth’s 5.something
This planet has a density estimate of roughly 2.6 +\- 0.5
The intriguing thing for me is the metallicity of the star and the young age estimate for that system.
The intriguing thing for me is that I've never scored with a woman yet and I'm 56.
Can’t wait to hear your take on the Mexican UAP hearings.
Right! I got a notification he posted and was super excited, thinking he was covering the Mexican hearing
It turns out most of the UAPs look like sombreros.
The planet is a 120 light years away, meaning what we’re seeing today happened over a hundred years ago. Just makes you think about the incredible vastness off space
All the exoplanets we discover are from systems that have their plane precisely aligned with Earth, right? Imagine the amount of habitable exoplanets which don't.
Good point. The Kepler team pointed that out.
I was waiting for this !
Thanks JMG what a great Wednesday vid to drop fr!!
The best “in which we livvvvvvve “ so far 😂
I'm glad I'm not the only one who compares and rates them. No two are the same.
nah
i wonder if most exoplanets with life have fish. i could imagine if fish were the dominant form of life in the universe. fish or sea creatures. i wonder what kinda oogley boogley looking creatures there may be out there. theyre already oogley boogley enough on this planet.
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Bring tartar sauce, malt vinegar, and cocktail sauce if you get to travel to the stars!
I know one thing...when they confirm a moon on 18b they better name it Oogly Boogly
Oooh when I just got home from work, excellent timing once again sir
Seems very exciting hopefully we can hear something from this!
i have been talking about this all day and checking you page for the video!!
So solid. Thanks for all you do. And for being the soothing voice that lulls me to sleep with old episodes.
John Michael Godier never disappoints 👍🏽
Hopefully this has legs. Any theories on what life out there is like are basically based on pure speculation, and while this would be huge, perhaps the biggest discovery ever if true, there still would be a lot of mystery, though this may sharpen parameters a tiny, tiny bit. All of that to preamble my thought/theory: to me, factoring the amount of time life took to become complex, the apparent suddenness of the Cambrian explosion, how complex intelligence appears to be, Earth getting “lucky” several times with extinction events not rendering it totally uninhabitable…I’ve always thought it wouldn’t be a stretch to say humans may be the tip of the spear when it comes to life, at least in our galaxy. Civilizations may only be a 1 in 10 galaxy type thing. Would be a lonely existence for sure. But the fact no one in the universe can truly see the present would make it hard to discover if there were more, in addition to being a very trippy concept when you really think about it. Shower thoughts over.
Yeah it boggles my mind how if we were somehow able to observe a planet 300m light years away, by the time the light reaches us an entire civilisation could have risen and fallen and we’d have no idea, we’d just see an empty planet.
It may be a Super Star, but it's not cooler than our Sun 😎 ...Super Cool 😁
Your outro is one of the few I listen to just to hear that "LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVE"
Nothing like getting a notification at 3:23 in the morning! Best way to wake up!
I love the use of the word 'cool', as it makes the commentary even 'cooler'...... ".... A very cool star" ... Its significally cooler..." ... Lol, its great, cause it actually is.... 'cool'😊
Was waiting specifically for your take ;)
I'd love to see 3D renders of what you're speaking about! Artists impressions of K2-18B and its red dwarf, perhaps its atmosphere and so on. :)
"We have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting." -Sagan
So surreal seeing the name for the first time, knowing it could be the entire world that someone of the future would know, someones HOME, And right now its just called k2-18b.
Yes been waiting all day for this
Thank you, Mr. Godier 🙂
Great vid!
Subbed.
“Detecting multiple leviathan class life forms are you sure what ever your doing is worth it”
Perfect timing
I agree with the official classification that it’s a very cool star 👍
For a spectral type M it's actually one of the hottest at 3,457K.
i get it I get it 😂
been waiting for this video :)
My favorite part of space exploration is finding out a craft not purpose built for a specific function can somehow excel in one very specific way. All my bets are on JWST, what an amazing time to be Human!
Good analysis well stated...
just as i’m about to head to bed, a new video is uploaded. perfect timing lol
"life in the universe is common but the civilizations that can leave their planet r rare" is actually imo the best scenario possible.
Knowing you're not alone but still the coolest dude around? Hell yeah.
I would rather find 100000 species of fucked up dolphins than 1 all consuming alien swarm thank you.
Fantastic stuff!
Red Dwarfs are great. You could get a permanent tan in like 1 nano second but you would not be at the beach because all the water and atmosphere would have been long ago blown away by the frequent super flares. Great fun.
11:20 I'm wondering what would be the chemical structure of any life on a Hycean planet, as well as how such life would extract energy from its environment.
I mean, even without 'life' in the question, planetary chemistry is likely to be one of the more complex and surprising subjects out there.
To me this seems like the best candidate we've seen so far for extraterrestrial life. Probably not a technological civilization though. The planet being younger than the earth by almost 2 billion years is one reason. The likelihood that it's entirely covered by oceans is another. Photosynthesizing life like phytoplankton or algae might be present though, and if so, that could be the base of a food chain for larger animals. I'm sure that even better candidates exist, it's just still hard to see them with our current technology and the enormous distances between stars. But I think we will find them in the coming decades.
When we do eventually do find concrete evidence of an exoplanet biosphere I shall enter a terrible melancholy, for I shall never set foot upon that world, nor see it with my own eyes.
I think James Webb is going to find life sooner or later. We know there are planets around almost every star, so JW will have plenty of places to search. Unless life is incredibly rare, we'll find it.