Exceptional Earth Sized Planet in the Habitable Zone Found 40 Light Years Away

Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about a discovery of an exciting Earth like planet with potentially habitable conditions
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#exoplanet #nasa #habitableplanets

0:00 Another exciting exoplanet announced by NASA - Gliese 12b
0:48 Type of a star and why it's exciting
2:50 How this planet compares to TRAPPIST-1 and Solar system
5:30 Best target for JWST because of transits
6:55 How this was found
7:30 Additional measurements needed
8:00 Conclusions and summaries

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[shishirdholakia]

Co-lead author of the Gliese 12 b discovery paper here. I've been a subscriber to your channel for a while. Thanks for featuring this, Anton!

[SeauxNOLALady]

This guy needs his own show on Netflix or some other channel that pays him a fortune. He is undoubtedly one of the best teachers of astronomy and science in general ever. He deserves to be awarded for his work.

[TotesRandom]

Anton + space news = time to relax, kick back, and enjoy the wonders of our universe.

[hoi-polloi]

I imagine some aliens doing their own observations of the galaxy. "Meh, Sol-III has virtually no methane in the atmosphere. Life couldn't possibly survive there."

[tayzonday]

Even if Earth-like planets in the Milky Way have an average separation of 1000 light years, that’s still more than 10, 000 Earths if they’re equidistant.

Finding planets within 40 light years that are the same size and receive similar radiation is a good sign.

[ochreJ]

wasnt there a recent paper that showed simulations suggest the flares from a red dwarf would tend to be 40-60 degrees above/below the plane of the ecliptic, meaning planets dont get as fried as we first thought?

[StickySli]

What's truly incredible is that it's only 40 light years away. Imagine we had a telescope powerful enough too see the surface of the planet. We would be looking 40 years in the past, equivalent to 1984!

[Benson_aka_devils_advocate_]

Problem with these close in, tidally licked planets is that any cme from the star that does hit the planet will be incredibly intense. And no active star is immune from flaring. They have yet to find a planet that close to a red dwarf that still has an atmosphere. Even around the more "quiet" ones

[briansprock]

We live in amazing times. Cherish life. Cherish consciousness.

[FrancisFjordCupola]

Was hoping for an exoplanet not around a red dwarf. Still an interesting find. It's probably still too hot to harbor life, it sounds warm enough to kick start a runaway greenhouse effect.

[conversemackem]

Anton, you are always so interesting and informative. Thank you.

[gregjames]

Hey Anton, splendid news - as always ... and the outro SMILE was just priceless, you should meme that smile ;-))

[turinturambar]

Love your content Anton. BTW, I never heard any more on your family situation, I know you had a loss a while back similar to something I’ve experienced. I hope your family has recovered and you’re doing well and moving forward. Stay strong.

[penneyburgess]

You are a wonderful person for putting this information out to the rest of us. Thank you!❤❤❤

[universe]

The equilibrium temperature is 42C (107F for the muricans), thats the temperature if it doesn’t have a heat retaining atmosphere, even if the red dwarf activity didn’t strip the planet’s atmosphere (and the fact that its prob tidally locked would make its rotational period equal to its 12 day orbit, far slower than earth and would generate a weaker magnetic field than Earth that would be barely affective against red dwarf stellar activity), it would be either an airless cratered wasteland or a Venus-like planet due to runaway greenhouse effect

[MugshotMidge]

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[dirtnapstor]

Love this channel. Sometimes it’s hard to follow, but for the most part, I find it enlightening and informative. At times I will relay topics learned to my middle school classes.

[jimcurtis]

Wonderful as always Anton. Thank you. 🙃😉👍

[tedbear]

Cool please keep us updated on this discovery!!!

[Jon-tsuki-geri]

Cool 😎 these planets usually don't make the cut though and this one probably won't either but i guess they will learn alot about it, great video.