This is the ESOcast that no viewer will want to miss. We discuss the result of the quest to find a planet around the closest star to the Solar System.
The Pale Red Dot campaign aimed to find a planet orbiting our nearest stellar neighbour, Proxima Centauri. Incredibly, the quest succeeded and the team did indeed find a planet. Even more excitingly, the planet, Proxima b, falls within the habitable zone of its host star. The newly discovered Proxima b is by far the closest potential abode for alien life.
In this ESOcast, the results of this groundbreaking research are explained in detail, providing insights into the following points:
* The extensive verification process the team went through to ensure this result was accurate.
* The factors for and against the possibility of life on Proxima b.
* The nature of a “habitable zone” around a star.
The discovery of Proxima b is a major science result, making this ESOcast a must for those of you curious about one of the most intriguing questions in astronomy — “are we alone?”
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ESO.
Editing: Herbert Zodet.
Web and technical support: Mathias André and Raquel Yumi Shida.
Written by: Calum Turner, Richard Hook and Eleanor Spring
Narration: Sara Mendes da Costa.
Music: STAN DART (www.stan-dart.com) and Mylonite – MRP (Mylonite Recordz Production).
Footage and photos: ESO, L. Calçada, M. Kornmesser, Nick Risinger (skysurvey.org), Alexandre Santerne (Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço) / Planetário do Porto – Centro Ciência Viva, C. Malin (christophmalin.com), NASA, ESA, F. Pont (Exeter University, UK), A. Lecavelier des Etangs (IAP/CNRS/UPMC, France), NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, ACe Consortium, B. Tafreshi (twanight.org), PHL @ UPR Arecibo, Liam Young/Unknown Fields, Alain Maury/spaceobs observatory, S. Brunier and Y. Beletsky (LCO).
Directed by: Herbert Zodet.
Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen.
humans just arn't innovative enough this is one of the greatest discoveries in the history of mankind and if a video of Kim Kardashian twerking was uploaded it would have millions more views and be much more talked about and noticed its sad really we are going to get no where like this.
To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before
Why do I feel like I just watched an advertisement.
get to the moon first…
now all we need is a warp drive
Alpha and Beta Centauri are closer Will Robinson.
nothing there just bullshit
half ass observation…..bullshit
I wish Yank women would cop a clue from how this woman talks. She does not block her nose and sound like a nasal drip. She uses her mouth AND her nose to speak, and she sounds wonderful. Note also the complete absence of vocal fry, also beloved of Yank women. Yuk!!! Enough with those whiney, croaking Yank women.
Too much radiation. 400 times more than on the Earth. It's much worse than one giant Pripyat Stalker zone there, it's not habitable. And practically useless for humanity. So relax your butts fellas.
Я что один русский?
Dat Mass Effect 1 feel with the music <3
yes
ils nous l'annonce petit a petit ou bien il nous voiles la face …
It blows my mind that this type of discovery isnt going viral. THIS IS HUGE!!! im so excited to be living in this time period despite all the bs politics and govt.
Love this but … The nearest possibility for life outside the solar system doesn't seem to be evidence based. ;P
Мультик для детей Лунтик
What's the story on fast orbiting planets? Why are ours so slow in comparison?
Check out Elizabeth Klarer and you can learn all about it and how to get there 😉
R;.I.P#@::2^%@#^#&$%*%^^(^&( )))
And then the Solar Flares attacked. RIP Proxima B
Estaremos sós neste vasto universo?? Uma pergunta que ainda não obteve resposta!!! Somos os únicos seres inteligentes? Acreditar ou não eis a questão?? Existir ou não existir?? No entanto há certos retratos extra que intrigam …como pinturas rupestres…rudimentares mas muito perceptíveis…como na idade média quadros pintados …O foco é Graal das pesquisas que nunca mais se detenha a continuidade de conhecimento e de desistir de encontros com outras vidas!! Que nos trará esta busca??
It's probably tidally locked, so there'd be a habitable band around the terminator. Winds would be high from temperature differentials between perpetual noon and perpetual midnight. Life is still feasible, though.
Oh, they have discovered the Trisolaris finally. How nice. 🙂 Anybody here has read 'The Three-Body Problem' novel by Liu Cixin?
I personally do not believe a planet like Earth will exist so close to us.
People also believed Venus would be Earth-like, they were wrong, very, very, wrong….
and if you take the distance Venus is from Earth, and also take into account the technological progression from that time(which was not linear, more exponential-based)….It makes me feel it will be another Venus-scenario, that place will not be Earth-like….
OR at its best:
I'm thinking it will be like Mars.
Waiting for 26/30 years for a maybe is pretty sh*t, its better if you take into account that in space there are so few maybes to begin with (its a pretty empty void type place where pretty much everything is not like Earth), I hope humanity is not pooling too much resources in this "maybe"……..
It feels like everyone is over-excited, and getting themselves ready for heart-breaking disappointment (here's a tip: stop being excited about anything, that way your heart beats slower and you live longer)….
the narrator needs to have my babies!
Reminds me of a 1950/60's story about Proxima Centauri…
there are more than 2 trillions galaxy in the universe.. and billions of stars and planets in one galaxy… i'm very sure we are not alone in this universe!
#aroundtheplanet
We are not alone in this planet earth. There is humans like people life in proxima b. 🔭🙂👍
Since life begins human intrested exploring planet. We come to proxima b. From a different planet where life started. And thay had some space ship to fly to proxima b.then to planet Mars to the planet of earth.🔭🙂