The closest exoplanet to earth: Proxima b

#proximab #universe #exoplanets

[kennyalternative]

It's in our blood to keep on exploring, reaching out for whatever is next. Our species will be out there jumping from star to star sooner or later.

[Deleted]

Around 25 trillion miles away, and that’s the nearest! Unbelievable and incomprehensible distances.

[mabedali_]

If voyager 1 travels at 163 KM/s then it would take it 8000 years to reach Proxima Centaur

[sotl]

Which is why aliens probably are not visiting Earth.

[bgsweatyfart]

if we lived there our life expectancy would be around 2600 years😹

[shrikanthpai]

Endless swathe of emptiness. Earth seems like a lonely lonely chap in the middle of nowhere

[thehybrid]

And proxima B is tidally locked to its star. Meaning one side of the planet is always facing its sun

[dalbirsingh]

Interstellar background music is so awesome when it comes to videos on cosmos.

[oeliamoya]

After watching a dozen of his other shorts talking about stars 900 light years from Earth that when he said located 4.2 light years away that in my head I said only 4.2LY? it's so close!

[EnviroDouglas]

Yay!! I was afraid I’d be hearing another movie soundtrack than Interstellar’s theme music. Thank you for being so creative and choosing this music.

[blackeaglenrzero]

Imagine some lizardpeople looking our way, thinking the same way

[johnross]

And it's due to these kind of distances that all the ufo sightings are not visiting aliens.

[aron]

Like Elon musk said, our technology is not ahead as people might think.

[pmstark]

Even with the near impossible to achieve speed of light, it'll take four years.

[jayr]

This morning I figured out how we could get there. We need to build a spacial slingshot around the earth, aim for it, and shoot.

Hopefully Nasa will read this comment and hire me.

[nicholasgardiner]

It's the closest of The Faraway candidates. Let's send a handful of probes.

[wisdomhere]

Everything related to space feels impossible. And i think may be the way we are approaching space wouldn't be the way to explore it n which isn't possible practically and there could be some other workaround which could be way simpler than we think.

[mmedrano]

“…it would still take thousands of years to reach Proxima b…”

Slack ass engineers

[chrissullivan]

The starship enterprise could do it. Beam me up Scotty

[piyush]

If when moved with fastest human made object Voyager 1 whit the speed of 17.08km per second it will still take 40, 000 yrs to reach there... 😩🤧