What the Discovery of Exoplanets Reveals About the Universe | Jessie Christiansen | TED

What are the planets outside our solar system like? Astrophysicist and TED Fellow Jessie Christiansen has helped find thousands of them (and counting), and the variety is more wonderful and wild than you might imagine. She shares details on the trends emerging from the data -- including the intriguing possibility of "super-Earths" -- and what the discovery of exoplanets means for existential questions like: Where do we come from, and how did we get here?

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[TheExoplanetsChannel]

*More than 60 habitable planets found!*

[TitoG]

👋👋👋👋I can only say, there is more to come, and I'm happy for it even if I don't live to see it. My hope is that the anti-science establishment, (to whom science is their greatest threat), doesn't derail your efforts.

[ayaali]

I'm speak kurdish but I want to learn english and l love this talk

[Comewithmeifuwantlive]

10's of billions of planets in the Milky Way?? There's no way we're the only ones out there.

[kristofnemcek]

Very interesting Ted Talk, one of the best ones so far imo

[markhancher]

Fantastic Job ..Everyday is Spectacular

[scasey]

Congrats to the PI of the Kepler mission. I’m kinda tired of all this faux excitement about careers and less focus on the science and understanding of the results.

[theluciadd]

1:10 This is one of the ways you can detect an exoplanet, called the transit spectroscopy method.
4:00 Likely talking about Hot Jupiters, how they're orbiting so close to their start that they are slowly being "eaten away"
4:04 Orbital resonance, we can see that in our own solar system through Jupiter's Galilean moons
5:40 The James Webb Space Telescope has already taken pictures of an exoplanet!

[ScottJWaldron]

Super interesting talk on exo-planets! It's definitely an important topic. It's cool to think she could be the "photographer" for the first real picture of an earth-like exo planet. 📷

[vegmar]

Why do you want to find life? Life SUCKS

[miskatonicalumni]

Why are they "all good dogs"?

[andriypalamarchuk]

Why people post all these junk unrelated quotes under this beautiful video?

[cybersekkin]

suspected exo planets - the process she is using just identifies candidates it is not confirmation. It is great and a necessary step and excited, but vastly over stated here.

[AdityaMehendale]

Holy crap - spam-bots. Sooo many bots. YT - please use Google's famed "algorithm" and so sth about this..

[tka-tpa-prapatankalisari]

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‘Be the person who breaks the cycle. If you were judged, choose understanding. If you were rejected, choose acceptance. If you were shamed, choose compassion. Be the person you needed when you were hurting, not the person who hurt you. Vow to be better than what broke you—to heal instead of becoming bitter so you can act from your heart, not your pain’
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[inaciobrito]

THERE ATE LIFE BY INCOUNTABLES BY THE UNIVERSE AND WE ARE TINY SPECIE

[ShahrezadNorMohammadiy]

“A friend's chance remark changed my mind. "What is not recorded is not remembered, " she told me.”
*—Benazir Bhutto 🇵🇰*

[tka-tpa-prapatankalisari]

“Education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world.”

~ NELSON MANDELA
speaking during an Address at the Planetarium, Johannesburg, South Africa
16 July 2003

_‘Indeed, what sculptor is to a block of marble so is education to a human soul.’_
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[KJ-yknq]

It’s incredible. 5000 in our limited view suggests they’re everywhere. It’s absurd that life developed here as it did if there’s no natural law that pushes it to happen.

[Awesome]

I hope you will get to take that photo ☺️