An Exploration of Exomoons

Today I climbed into my little spaceship and flew somewhere no one has ever been before. Join me as I make the first exploration of exomoons!

[KhAnubis]

Three habitable ocean moons orbiting a gas giant? Sounds like a new worldbuilding idea

[uniter]

Cool, i think it's the right decision to have space videos back on the main channel. They provide variety and reach more people.

[DerpyHoovesy]

I'm so so happy to see more space videos. These are my absolute favourite and I was sad to see your secondary channel not so active. Glad to see them here!

[ashstolley]

New atlas pro drop is always a good day!

[konstantinhorizon]

I love your videos, they are really like those NatGeo or Discovery channel programmes I used to watch as a kid. I appreciate your work, it feels kinda nostalgic. Thank you!

[MotoHikes]

Professor Kipping from Cool Worlds is somewhat an authority in this field. I love his content (as well as yours, of course!)

[WoodyLingYT]

I went to the Texas Star Party eclipse event and there was an astronomer there, David Kipping, who works at Columbia University and has 3 days of observations with JWST in October that could potentially be the first exomoon confirmation! He explained all his research and why they selected their specific observation, basically it's be best candidate there is, and they'll be using the transit method but to ensure it's a moon it needs to have a consistent dip of lighting relative to the exoplanet. Or something. 😂 But in October we may have confirmation!

[rex]

cool worlds is a youtuber who is a professor at idk which one, a US university who runs the lab for exomoons and how we could find them. last i remember they couldn't get any time with the james web telescope so haven't found any but their models show they should be able to find them at the locations they wanted to look at if there are any.

also i love that space engineers is now big enough that you got images of the character im guessing when you googled astronaut what ever idk what you would use to get something of that style. makes me happy cause i love that game. that or you play the game which is also cool.

edit: rewatching the bits that had it im guess that they are just the first 3d model that comes up. or at least is easily used in a lot of thing as i know it is usable in source film maker (I've seen it in another video that i know used source film maker) and VRage 2 cause thats the engine the game runs off of.

[AllSeerAugustus]

Nice to see a change from all the island videos. Enjoying the content.

[OwlRTA]

Can't believe Caelan went into deep space just for a YouTube video. What a guy!

[doltsbane]

If you're looking for ideas for a future space video, I'd love to see one on what the climate and weather would be like on a terraformed Mars. The distribution of landmasses, the shallowness of its ocean basins, the lack of a stabilizing moon that would also tidally stir its oceans, the height and density of its atmosphere, the gravity, the eccentricity and distance of its orbit, the basaltic nature of its surface rocks, there's so many factors that would be wildly different from Earth and would surely produce radically different results.

[mvw]

Love the Space Engineer engineers helping you out on your journey!

[hirosoli]

This was fantastically done! On par with anything I've seen on Nova! Great Job!

[shardana]

In a panspermian way, moons and planets could be islands as well... Thanks for the great video!

[haavard]

I love how you measured the water in ZL (zettaliters) instead of something weird like billions of cubic kilometers (apparently it's illegal to use anything above kilo for meters. Fun fact: 1 zettaliter = 1 cubic megameter)
It's so nice to see someone actually using the really big metric prefixes for once. Small details like this is exactly why i love this channel so much!

[BurningheartofSILVER]

Bro comes back every episode with an insane level up to his animations 👩🏽‍🍳🤌💋

[DaFwizz]

one of my absolute favorite vids from you. keep up the stellar work!

[sp_ce.]

I think it’s fairly hard to actually overheat a moon. Io is the only example of this in the solar system and it orbits Jupiter, an extremely large planet that has a mass of over 300 earth masses, and does so at about the same distance of our moon.

[seoulbrotherno]

Excellent video! This exomoon hypothesis overcomes two obstacles to habitability: 1. Tidal lock for Red Dwarf Stars, and 2. The disproportionate number of gas giants (which are most likely lifeless) that we've discovered. For Red Dwarf stars, exomoons around a gas giant may also be more protected from stellar volitility by their host planet's large magnetosphere. However, if a moon is inside of a gas giant's magnetosphere, wouldn't that mean the surface would get bombarded by radiation? (Radiation via Van Allen belts...)

[mollytroll]

This makes me happy! I love that your videos are actually accurate and not just clickbaity, that's more than can be said about many astronomy channels on yt :))