Exoplanets and the Search for Habitable Worlds

Ғылым және технология

May 5, 2010, at the Linda Hall Library
For thousands of years people have wondered, "Are we alone?" With over 400 planets discovered to orbit nearby stars, the existence of "exoplanets" is firmly established. Professor Sara Seager from MIT presents highlights of exoplanet discoveries and discuss when we might find another Earth and what kinds of signs of life we are looking for.

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  • @pablobest4239
    @pablobest4239 Жыл бұрын

    With the lecture being 10 years old, I look forward to revisiting these questions as new answers (or questions) come from the JWST today.

  • @srmeister1

    @srmeister1

    Жыл бұрын

    13 years old

  • @DavidRayBurroughs

    @DavidRayBurroughs

    Жыл бұрын

    13 years and 1 week...

  • @whirledpeas3477

    @whirledpeas3477

    10 ай бұрын

    13 years 3 months 2 weeks 😊

  • @MartinSage

    @MartinSage

    2 ай бұрын

    I love science fiction. My favorite is an old 1950's radio show called X-Minus One. One of the stories is called "Universe" which tells the story of a huge craft holding an entire civilization. They have been traveling in space for decades upon decades with no end in view😢

  • @robertallencad1
    @robertallencad1 Жыл бұрын

    This is wonderful

  • @SueFerreira75
    @SueFerreira75 Жыл бұрын

    Great lecturer

  • @PEHook
    @PEHook Жыл бұрын

    What was known over 13 years ago ...

  • @captiveexile2670
    @captiveexile2670 Жыл бұрын

    Look in the "red dot" region far away from "Sa amrng A* (center of Milky Way) as we are on another arm of the Milky Way. (Makes sense, for arm full of stars progably has an earth-like planet also rotating in a "Golidlocks Zone".

  • @TubeAddict999
    @TubeAddict99918 күн бұрын

    This was amazing! Had she done another one recently? I.e. 2024?

  • @LindaHallLibrary

    @LindaHallLibrary

    9 күн бұрын

    Glad you enjoyed the lecture! Check out Jessi Christiansen's recent talk on exoplanets: kzread.info/dash/bejne/Yn6W1K6nqtqqdJM.html

  • @TubeAddict999

    @TubeAddict999

    6 күн бұрын

    @@LindaHallLibrary thanks so much! Will do 😁

  • @edwardmartin243
    @edwardmartin243 Жыл бұрын

    If we develop holographic mirrors, we may able to directly obverse planets out side our solar system🪞

  • @Jenalgo

    @Jenalgo

    Жыл бұрын

    You're a moron.

  • @whirledpeas3477

    @whirledpeas3477

    10 ай бұрын

    ​@@Jenalgo Interesting argument. 😅

  • @MartinSage
    @MartinSage2 ай бұрын

    Fact: millions of years ago Mars had an atmosphere like earth and oceans like earth. Fact: Samples from Mars shows proof that huge atomic activities occurred that resulted in the destruction of the atmosphere and oceans causing what we see today. Question: Could it be that survivors of Mar's atomic war colonized Earth?-

  • @teddroessler8566
    @teddroessler8566 Жыл бұрын

    There is absolutely no proof of a god out there. Zero.

  • @unifive10

    @unifive10

    8 ай бұрын

    All of this is proof

  • @syntaxed2
    @syntaxed2 Жыл бұрын

    Whats the point when we dont even have a propulsion system that could reach that world in under 20.000 years?

  • @ethorii

    @ethorii

    Жыл бұрын

    Inspiration for future generations to overcome current limits?

  • @laxmisarathy2519

    @laxmisarathy2519

    Жыл бұрын

    Iiio

  • @NondescriptMammal

    @NondescriptMammal

    Жыл бұрын

    I agree, the nearest star is 25 trillion miles away, and humans have never been further from the earth than the moon... and we are searching for habitable planets? The point is probably that it's a sales pitch to keep the gullible public gung-ho about spending billions on the next bigger telescope. The strangest part is, even with our advances in technology, and ever improved space telescopes... even the JWST cannot determine whether any exoplanet is actually habitable. Period. It's not even close to having that capability.

  • @TubeAddict999

    @TubeAddict999

    18 күн бұрын

    It's a step closer.

  • @davidorth4906
    @davidorth4906 Жыл бұрын

    Exo-planets are sexy.

  • @django-unchained
    @django-unchained3 ай бұрын

    Lots of assumptions here "life cannot live here", where it should be "no known life could live here" etc. Expected much higher level of lecture. The weakest so far I seen from Linda Hall Library.

  • @bobmorr2892
    @bobmorr2892 Жыл бұрын

    Boring video of incredibly exciting subject.

  • @adamwiseman5831
    @adamwiseman5831 Жыл бұрын

    Let's start with an ego blinded point of view that aliens could only have technology like ours. We're number 1 were number 1. 😂😅 0

  • @gaugengotm2307
    @gaugengotm2307 Жыл бұрын

    Who pays the bills for all these types of zero sum endeavors? "100's" of years ahead of reality.

  • @oqsy
    @oqsy Жыл бұрын

    32:30 Completely ignores the increase flare activity of smaller stars and why that means they are NOT better than our sun. I gotta go watch fart videos.

  • @echo1257

    @echo1257

    Жыл бұрын

    😅

  • @kordelas2514

    @kordelas2514

    Жыл бұрын

    We do not know what local visual effects in the sky known as stars and the sun really are and how they occur.

  • @oqsy
    @oqsy Жыл бұрын

    There is absolutely no proof of a habitable planet beyond Earth’s atmosphere. Zero.

  • @esnevip

    @esnevip

    Жыл бұрын

    Depends, habitable for whom?

  • @oqsy

    @oqsy

    Жыл бұрын

    @@esnevip also a fair point

  • @kordelas2514

    @kordelas2514

    Жыл бұрын

    There is no proof that Earth is a globe, a planet and that it is suspended in outer space. Zero.

  • @esnevip

    @esnevip

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kordelas2514 please be satire..

  • @kordelas2514

    @kordelas2514

    Жыл бұрын

    @@esnevip It is not. I just shared the truth.

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