Could There Be life On Kepler 22-B?

Will we ever find an exoplanet just like Earth?
With oceans, trees, animals, and maybe...some kind of humanoid aliens?
How will this planet be? Maybe it will be smaller than Earth, maybe bigger. 
Astronomers are now looking for these kinds of planets, but it is not so easy to spot them. 
With the help of our current techniques, we are able to spot a lot of massive and large planets, but it's way harder to detect Earth-sized ones. 
Of course, there are some exceptions. The first planet to ever be found similar to Earth was Kepler 22-b.
It was detected in 2009 and today we know this amazing planet is orbiting in the habitable zone of its host star. 

But what's a habitable zone? And what are the main features of Kepler 22-b? There could be life on this planet?

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Credits: Nasa/Shutterstock/Storyblocks/Elon Musk/SpaceX/ESA/ESO/ Flickr

Video Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:04 how do we find exoplanets
03:39 why is this exoplanet special
06:41 Estimating surface and gravity

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[thangelad]

Imagine on another planet somewhere there are eyes watching a video titled “Could there be life on the distant blue planet?”

[marbzdesigns]

Meanwhile, alien in Kepler 22-B: could there be life on that blue planet?

[yjx]

The thing I find most disheartening about this is that the light we see showing us the Kepler system, and therefore also Kepler 22-b is now hundreds of lightyears out of date. Even if tomorrow science was to discover some way of instantaneously teleporting all that way, there’s no telling what might be waiting on arrival - sure, you have the possibility that a thriving developed species could be living on a planet we’re well suited to, but I suspect the more likely scenario would be, by the time we arrive, the planet might still be potentially habitable, but 600+ lightyears’ history could well mean anything which lived there could be extinct, or maybe the host star had only a relatively short amount of time left before expanding to be red giant and now it’s all gone. This is obviously a fantastic find, but until humanity discovers a way of literal instantaneous travel across vast distances (& returning), I’ll be interested in the find, but not hopeful at all of ever seeing video footage of it as it is in real time in my lifetime.

[redketchup]

cant wait to have JWST look at those. should be a priority

[raffaellouis]

In fact that the mass of Kepler-22b is about 36 masses of earth, way too massive that it may have a Volatile-Rich Atmosphere which makes it the smallest known Mini-Neptune

[micpowers]

Wouldnt be surprised if you find a half fish half human in a planet made of water.

[Zurround]

As much as I admire him I 100 percent DISAGREED with Michio Kaku when he said that there either is or is not life out there and both answers are equally terrifying.

BULL EFFING $HIT. Thinking that there could be others out there is COMFORTING and us being alone in the universe scares me WAY MORE than the comfort of believing that there could be life out there.

[debbieanne]

A lot of maybes
But one day
Hopefully the James Webb telescope will make some great finds

[matthewiles]

If there is life on other planets and they discovered Earth, I wonder what name they would give our home planet.

[nunnaification]

when the time we reach the story.. all here already pass away long time

[Brekstahkid]

But wouldn't the planet be more prone to be affected by solar flares and such?

[johnfletcher]

Is there an estimate of how many stars have a planetary disk (% wise) that is in the plane that includes the earth? Would be interesting to know how many are excluded from observation from earth.

[tubularbill]

If the Gravity is X more than Earth could a rocket or ship take off from that planet? Would the gravity be to dense?

[lighteningleke]

From the sounds of it This planet is about 2.5 times the radius of are planet, thats sound more like a mini Neptune to me, as super earth's from what I have read cannot have a radius more then 70%-80% larger then earth.

Because anything more then that and it would gain a much thicker atmosphere and would be between Earth and Neptune.

[rparnoncillon]

its 600 light years away, i wonder if thats still how it looks like today.

[vkvsirdotcom]

Man I think that there will be water life or some thing like just our earth

[Earthmoonstars-elrd]

We may get the answer with the James Web satellite telescope already in service.

[garrettrussell]

Yes there is life out there. But not likely to ever be able to communicate with anyone.

[sagan]

Life already exists on Kepler 22-B. Praise Sol!