Nikku Madhusudhan discovered the signs which he was humble and hesitant to make the call which represents a sincere person in his field. I hope other in peer group confirm and give him credit for this discovery 🤩

@jjbiano

Ай бұрын

Astronomers first studied K2-18 b’s atmosphere with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in 2019.

@EETechStuff

Ай бұрын

Perhaps he was "humble and hesitant" because he knew that all he did was a relatively simple spectrum analysis of some light, and he got real lucky that the light he analyzed happened to show the "fingerprint" of those gases. Maybe he realizes his peers wouldn't think it was much more than getting very lucky. And maybe he realizes that the light he analyzed is over 100 years old (based on the time it took to travel here), and his results may no longer apply. And maybe he realized that the fact that it would take us over 1 million years to travel there makes this whole issue somewhat irrelevant, though fun to think about.

@Aureonw

Ай бұрын

@@EETechStuff if we found a civilization even if 100000 Lightyears away from us it is not irrelevant, even if you only think of microorganisms if we found life 124 Lightyears away that means the Fermi paradox gets even weirder, because that proves that the universe is probably teeming with life nearly everywhere and we start worrying that the "big filter" for advanced civilizations are ahead of us

@EETechStuff

Ай бұрын

@@Aureonw And since our only connection to that planet is the light being reflected off its surface, how do you propose that we determine whether life ACTUALLY exists there?

@Aureonw

Ай бұрын

@@EETechStuff biomarkers on the planet, ie certain chemicals etc world's conditions changing without certain explanation other than microorganisms slowly terraforming the world like in our world where Earth turned into a snowball many times due to too much oxygen from photosynthesis

It would have been nice to have named the Cambridge Professor that first discovered this information. It was his discoveries that made you turn the Webb telescope onto this planet.

@Dybicus

Ай бұрын

Indeed!

@rogermouton2273

Ай бұрын

Nikku Madhusudhan

@robwainfur2073

Ай бұрын

100% this

@thegogsunit4084

Ай бұрын

for sure! Webb and Nasa didnt 'Spot Life-Indicating Gas on Exoplanet', he did

@posteador

Ай бұрын

Nikku is a cool name for a planet... "Welcome to Nikku", yes I can imagine that. Nikkunians living there as well. 😁

Prof Nikku Madhusudhan of Cambridge Uni first spotted this THEN JWST pointed at this planet. Just seen an interview with him on LBC Radio..😊

@rallywagon261

Ай бұрын

I'm coming to this video after having watched that one.

@jjbiano

Ай бұрын

You have to give credit to the astronomers that first studied K2-18 b’s atmosphere with NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope in 2019 as well.

@TimeForTrim

Ай бұрын

same @@rallywagon261

@JonCrowe

Ай бұрын

@@rallywagon261 same here

@joshuagharis9017

Ай бұрын

Me too. Seeking truth. Good science 👍

fact we are able to detect something like DMS at a distance that would require 1million years to travel there is amazing

Prof Nikku Madhusudhan - Thank you

Prof Nikku Madhusudhan of Cambridge

Technically it wouldn't be click bait. He did explain it in full. This is one of the first that I have seen where he actually explained something to the title. And we all know we aren't alone in the universe. Wish they would allow the truth to be told. Humanity is ready for it.

@johnhead1643

Ай бұрын

"And we all know we aren't alone in the universe" How do we know this? One would certainly think that in the vast cosmos there should be other life but we don't know it as a fact at this point. To claim that we do is not scientific. And what is this "truth" that is being hidden from us?

@JIMIIXTLAN

Ай бұрын

We all do not know

@ACU_misfit

Ай бұрын

Tell that to the religious.

@maxtonanddad

Ай бұрын

Yes this Indian fellow found it .. I was watching him earlier

@jamescarter8311

Ай бұрын

@@ACU_misfit It's funny how many people attack "the religious" as if they themselves have any idea what's going on. We could be in a simulation. Time may not actually be a real thing. If interdimensional beings exist, they're likely what spawned the mainstream religions. Thus, there is a lot of truth to religion. But it's not like you know something no one else does. Our greatest minds and yet to even crack the surface of understanding what life and conscious is. Only life creates life as far as we've observed, and we have no physics yet to explain it. Don't be an idiot. Einstein was smarter than you and he was a Christian.

To me as a chemist, the presence of measurable quantities of DMS in the atmosphere of K218-B is proof of the absence of oxygen. But hey, this is how it started here on Earth as well.

@astronemir

Ай бұрын

Why would there be lack of oxygen and lots of co2?

@CrimsonBlot

Ай бұрын

@@astronemir Ever ran a car in a closed garage? Not exactly the same compound but you get the picture.

@joshuagharis9017

Ай бұрын

For billions of years on Earth

@renecapistran484

Ай бұрын

Well considering there is mesurable levels of DMS in the earth's atmosphere, I'd be curious to know why that is.

@zegermanscientist2667

Ай бұрын

@@renecapistran484 Because detection limits across methods. And light years.

It´s not a question of "if", it´s a question of "when"!

@GeorgeGeorge-yb2sz

Ай бұрын

Wow, that was original!

This is indeed a tantalizing discovery !

Possibly name the professor who discovered this and not aclaim it to 'the james webb telescope' Very informative but please credit the professor for his hard and diligent work on this major discorvery

@atg5073

Ай бұрын

Indeed the credits should go to nikku madhusudhan for his discovery

Feeling loved

Planet Nikku 💯

Great channel

Great news!!! A long term project to be undertaken and answer the great question,... but the real question is: will we be able to overcome our infinite thirst for self-destruction as a species?

@SebaRolaMusic

Ай бұрын

Er, no. No we won't.

We're going to need a better name than K2-18B.....

@karifishc3376

Ай бұрын

Why . I think it s cute

@dont155

Ай бұрын

Vulcan 😁

@Debbie-henri

Ай бұрын

Klaatu, maybe? It was the only alien name or place I could think of that had significant letters and sounds that correspond with the astronomer's name. But yes, K2-18b is too clumsy.

@obamasenpai8343

Ай бұрын

Keplers 2 is K2 aka what system it was found with/ useing the kepler telescope, 18B is I believe the direction and star it orbits.

@tcrawford3455

Ай бұрын

Planet Tony.🎉

Great ! Maybe we have a chance to find out we arent alone before we go extinct !

@AORD72

Ай бұрын

Extinct from what?

@damianramirez5292

Ай бұрын

@@AORD72Yo Momma

@dc-5831

Ай бұрын

😂

@Ogt92

Ай бұрын

@@AORD72 Pole shift happening now.. We're toast!

@AORD72

Ай бұрын

@@Ogt92 You think the poles moving is going to kill everybody? why would you think that.

the magnetic field on that planet will surely knock me out. this is really an exciting time of discovery.

@wooddogg8

Ай бұрын

Probably the gravity too, but That's space exploration for you, HOSTILE To we Humans!

@Aureonw

Ай бұрын

​@@wooddogg8the planet is 8,6 times the mass of earth

Thank god for that

Do we know of other sources of DMS though?

Where are you getting this 8 Light year number? K2-18B is 124 Light years away.

Does spectroscopy data also have the same time lag as light? Are the readings of the present or of light years away..

@mrfedkillhack

Ай бұрын

Is there anything that can travel faster than light?

@gdxdesigns1310

Ай бұрын

That's actually a really good point

@wally7856

Ай бұрын

We use the light that passes through the planets atmosphere as it transits its host star to do the spectroscopy so that light is 124 years old.

Woah 😮

Why is your ''image'' of K218b just earth but mirrored?

You really need to name the professor who made the discovery, it's unfair on him when he is rightly so beaming from ear to ear about the discovery he has made, it absolutely is not the jwst

JAMES WEBB YAY!

Its interestyng I like it

I just saw an interview on YT of the man who discovered this planet. It was an Indian man from Cambridge University. It was not Webb or NASA. Is there a way you can edit this video to give the man his respects?

Same applies on earth..military experience..flash bang..you will see the flash..the bang depends on how far away..so imagine that in a cosmic compilation...i think a teacher said if an alien race was able to see us at their time..they wouldn't see us currently..but preastoric...

@petenh2804

Ай бұрын

Great point! If the Life form has that Understanding of another Existence even though their own Higher authority Scientifically sees Earth through the Telescope as Cavemen or Prehistoric would they then decide to Investigate further and find Earth beings have Advanced beyond that realm just out of Alien Curiosity then either help us Advance Scientifically or avoid us Totally because Humanity is too Barbaric as We invade or Bomb one another. I feel that We are not Alone in the Universe or here on Earth. It's only a matter of time before something is discovered accidentally through technology and a clear clip or picture becomes final proof or Alien Life emerges from the Frozen Antarctic or from Miles Deep Underwater as in Atlantis.

Hooray for K218B

I'm pessimistic about the future. Given the current trend of banning books, we're not far from what's portrayed in Interstellar, where they questioned the moon landings, etc. Confirmation of alien life might go against someone's doctrine. Who knows what happens next. That's not a future I would want.

@edwardpoe7323

Ай бұрын

Then don't accept it. The people who burn books don't respect the humanity of their so called enemies, but we've always beaten them in the past

@michaeldavidfigures9842

Ай бұрын

@@edwardpoe7323 I'm not sure. We are only aware of what we haven't lost. Remember the library at Alexandria?

@MrWildbill

Ай бұрын

The only books being banned are books with inappropriate subject matter for the age and grade of the kids, none of these book are banned at book stores, public libraries, and places like Amazon. The books are readily available for free from the public library and you can buy them, they are just cited as inappropriate for young children.

@edwardpoe7323

Ай бұрын

@@michaeldavidfigures9842 look what we have now, there have been a few times in history that civilizations have collapsed maybe it won't happen this time

@user-lz2es2bk6x

Ай бұрын

the trend of banning books is mostly in the US and the UK and the world doesn't revolve around the USA like in hollywood movies so calm down and stop watching movies we are not even close to the book 1984 either. more than half the people who say that, have not read the book.

Don't think that DMS has been definitively been identified on KT-18b yet. Hints that it is "likely" present but apparntly more scientific analysis ongoing to actually "confirm" presence of DMS.

@TicTac2

Ай бұрын

yes i was hoping for some sort of confidence level in the presence of DMS but he started waffling about the topic in general

This news is exciting and also saddening as there is no chance of real time contact.

Of course the dynamic of the Drake Equation, while making it unlikely that there is intelligent life there, sets up the possiblilty of this planet being at least somewhere on the evolution spectrum..

Maybe give the Cambridge professor a shout out, he discovered it

Of course we are not alone

No chance of a pub then.

@user-lz2es2bk6x

Ай бұрын

in a few billion years maybe don't lose hope

Astronomy has come a long way since the 1990's. I remember prior to Hubble they didn't even know if other planets existed in the universe.

is it tidally locked?

Do we have data on it's magnetosphere?

Just show us the aliens already!! 😎

@Henrik.Yngvesson

Ай бұрын

And the antigravity engines 😜 They have to keep it a secret and unavailable for us or the humans would fly around and cause chaos in the galaxy.

@legend9335

Ай бұрын

My life.

@wooddogg8

Ай бұрын

Better telescopes and who knows what else is coming. Patience 😞

@kingleeky777

Ай бұрын

@@Henrik.Yngvesson nailed it

don't people who say the sphinx is much older than credited say that the proof is that it faces east, looking at the leo constellation approximately 10 000 yrs ago. just maybe...

@user-lz2es2bk6x

Ай бұрын

no one credible claims the sphynx is older it's been debunked many times and been debunked by people who believe the sphynx was older so to me that's not even worth talking about those people anymore.

@footballlife1543

Ай бұрын

​@@user-lz2es2bk6x Yeah no. Nobody has proven that they aren't older. They used carbon dating on organic material that could have absolutely gotten there by way of repairs. All they have are the best guesses they can come up with.

@cinegabweb

Ай бұрын

@@footballlife1543 Those who claim it's older are the ones who need to prove it, not the other way.

@footballlife1543

Ай бұрын

@cinegabweb You can look at it how you want to but the point still remains they are relying on a source that might not be good in the first place.

@MO-mi6kw

Ай бұрын

@@user-lz2es2bk6x the erosion looked liked it was caused by water when i visited it. when did rain enough in the desert to cause that especially as it was covered in sand ?. i'm open minded enough to accept science gets things wrong sometimes so facts can change to reflect that.

For the forseeable future it will only ever be a signature. We want the signator.

WOW

Why don't they look at star systems that people claim to have met people from? It would answer questions either way. Look at these systems like Zeta Reticuli or Arcturus in the Boötes constellation.

Humanity has been through much worse and yet it survives. I think humanity will find the strength to succeed.

When will we know more? Wow

I think there can never be certainty about life on any exoplanet. We will only ever be able to say "It may support life" and that's the truth of it.

@cinegabweb

Ай бұрын

There can be certainty : a radio signal like in Contact (for intelligent life that is).

Does it have a moon ? Not to say you are wrong but there is more needed to successfully support life.

we need 1000 steps closer for me to consider this desperation to find aliens, good luck

@edwardpoe7323

Ай бұрын

Just prepare yourself the universe is not a sterile place

@jamescarter8311

Ай бұрын

There are some 60,000 solar systems just within 100ly of us. That's close enough for life to spread between systems even if it began in ours. There's no chance that there isn't life elsewhere, especially when you consider how unlikely it is also that it magically spawned on earth.

@minhnguyen-mk9om

Ай бұрын

@@jamescarter8311 it would take more than just few elements to have life, human existence is not that simple because of few elements,

@minhnguyen-mk9om

Ай бұрын

@@edwardpoe7323 we will never know because we can never get there, a few images here and there not gonna do any good, human existence will extinct sooner than we all hope

@edwardpoe7323

Ай бұрын

@@minhnguyen-mk9om people have been talking about the end of the world since the world began. Yet the story continues.

it sounds good, but with all due respect, when it comes from NASA it makes it a little hard to believe, we've been lying to so many times that when I hear from news from NASAS SCIENTISTS and they tell me to look south to the sky, I'll look north and find out new things and hard to explain. But it is a very interesting video.

@chronicles8324

Ай бұрын

It wasnt discovered by Nasa. A scientist from Cambridge University made the discovery and they quietly ignored that bit

Fascinating. Somebody tried to hide from us but farted too much.

So, there are, greenhose- gases in atmosphere. They are also in Venus. Is that habitablle.

Follow the money. At 6:40 he says "the discovery would likely lead to a significant increase in funding and resources for space research...", which is what they really care about. Forget the fact that the light-based data this is based on is hundreds of years old (the time it took for the light to travel to us for analysis) and therefore may no longer apply, but more importantly it's impossible for us to even consider travelling such a distance, since it would take millions of years to get there. But what's really important for NASA is they hype this as much as possible so it will help them get the increase in funding, which they blatantly admit in this video. And to make the jump from "presence of gases" to "presence of intelligent life" is ludicrous. Fun to think about, but ultimately irrelevant.

@snakev7140

Ай бұрын

Brother, it's 127 light years away, if it existed 127 years ago it exists now as well. Life doesn't just go extinct in a century, and just knowing life is possible on other planets would be huge.

@EETechStuff

Ай бұрын

@@snakev7140 Do a little research on what's been done over the last 100 years in trying to determine whether life exists on Mars, even after we've had probes land there (and in fact one is there now). You'll quickly realize that it's extremely complicated, even if we have probes there. We still aren't certain about Mars. So proving life exists 127 light years away when it's impossible to send probes is physically impossible. All they can do is tell us "yeah, conditions might exist" but can never prove it, just like conditions might exist on Mars. And to say "life doesn't go extinct in a century" is just ludicrous. Do some research.

This video is really cool, but where is this planet? Where is the news release. Need proof.

I see comments stating "oh why bother we'll never get there anyway it's 24 light years away. If a Corporation even gets the slightest whiff of possible profits with regulation being so far away, you see how fast they develope the means to get there.

@GeoPePeTto

Ай бұрын

124 light years away*

@JanBoomgaarden-xl8xs

Ай бұрын

@GeoPePeTto it's only one hundred light years off. What's the big deal, we'll never break the light barrier in our lifetimes

@JanBoomgaarden-xl8xs

Ай бұрын

Thank you Professor Madhusudhan. You have opened a door and allowed more light on a very old question. All honor to you Professor Madhusudhan.

@GeoPePeTto

Ай бұрын

@@JanBoomgaarden-xl8xs The more interesting part of this is how much long ago the planet had this gas composition. It’s 124 years ago. True, in the grand scheme of the universe, it’s nothing. You’re right. But I just wanted to correct you for other people to know. I’m positive you knew the distance and it was just a typo.

Protecting these worlds ? 😂 from what ? ...Can't wait to hear this explanation 😅😅😅

@GaZonk100

Ай бұрын

our 'sin' of existing

@Aureonw

Ай бұрын

Protecting the microorganisms from extinction by us I guess

Okay, so if there is actually life on this planet there is probably life on lots of other planets that we have yet to find, but one thing is certain life on our planet and if it’s seen from another planet it’s most likely they are in the same predicament as us, unable to travel faster than light, and every thing we or they looked at has already happened, so using space time looking out millions of years ago we will never meet any life forms from that time period, maybe from this planet we will in a few million years if we survive that long. We are a grain of sand in the hour glass the size of universe.

@Aureonw

Ай бұрын

Fermi paradox gets a wrench thrown on it, if life is so common why no advanced civilizations can be seen?, then it becomes proof that the big filter for advanced species is actually ahead of us

It's 729 Trillion miles away

Wow, we may have discovered goo on a planet 124 light years away.

@TicTac2

Ай бұрын

would be quite significant. i dont think we even know the chance of going from random chemicals to cells of life, and then cells to multi-cellular organisms. if there's a 'nearby' planet on life it's signficiant

@marriedcouple3118

Ай бұрын

@@TicTac2 "Significant" greatly diminishes over distance and time. If it was only 1 light year from earth, using current technology, it would take approximately 2,958 years to get there. That planet is literally 366,792 years from home. At that distance, its much closer to barely relevant. Sure technology will improve over time but seriously, anything that far out is nothing but a complete waste of time, energy, effort and money. Concentrate on things that might help future generations (maybe over the next 2 to 500 hundred years) not a "Maybe there is goo" on a planet that is 4,585 lifetimes away from earth. (At an average of 80yrs per lifetime)

💖

Long time to get there huh?

Right On Ape Man

Is that planet a unique living organism?

Seems to be many potential life planets located around red dwarfs 🤔

a 1-sigma detection can be an error in the data.

@user-lz2es2bk6x

Ай бұрын

yes they made it public without double checking the date, they always do stupid things like that at NASA. that's why no one trust nasa they always say things without knowing if it's an error or not

120 light years makes it basically unreachable. Forever. Interstellar travel is impossible.

Hate to say it again ! I told you so ! Life is everywhere !

And so the 3-Body Problem begins...

A magnetic feild would up the odds large!

Either there is some novel chemical process heretofore unknown to us or there's life.

Don't think we will get there anytime soon.

Planet Nikku

I can feel you stench from 124 light years away should be the first message we send

red sun higher pressure and gravity than earth...just rename it Krypton already

Self and surrounding speech. First and experiment our future intantat that

How far away. 124 light years.we could never get there with our technology. 1 light year ,and we struggle.

@tasosplat3589

Ай бұрын

just walk?

@Austin_Playz27

Ай бұрын

nah why not just jump there? like jump really really high

@Aureonw

Ай бұрын

​@@Austin_Playz27Can you?

@Austin_Playz27

Ай бұрын

@@Aureonw hmmm your right maybe i would need a chair to get a little higher of a jump

I can only assume that if there is life on that planet, the glory days are gone. The star is old.

I hope that life out there. Has a better intelligence than we do. Otherwise they will have the same outcome we are experiencing. Which is an end to our civilization. 😢

@user-xg8ut5kh9j

Ай бұрын

There's good intelligence and evil intelligence, our world clearly has and is still being guided by evil.

Change the NASA narrative, you need to give the Prof the real credit here, Webb wouldnt be pointed at the planet without the research of the Prof

When we look this planet , its 120 years ago ?

@ConcreteLand

Ай бұрын

Yes. That’s the time it took for the light (radiation) to travel to us.

@gabegaram6047

Ай бұрын

It'll take about 1.6 million years to travel 100 light years. So hurry start packing you mite miss the plane ...🤣🤣🤣🤣

@halfaed

Ай бұрын

Actually, if you do the math on our current ability/tech it would take about 213 million years to get there. Our fastest human made probe has traveled about 395,000 miles per hour and assuming that a lightyear is close to 6 trillion miles. Then you have the little fact that this planet is 125 light years away…. Plus I’m not even considering if this planet is moving away from us. We need teleportation 😉

Leave the place alone. Let the natural cycles determine its outcome.

#super earth 🌎

That's all great, but using a telescope to get all this information are we not looking back in time? the planet as we speak might be in an ice age if we were there today? or not even still exist.

@wally7856

Ай бұрын

Its only 124 light years away so we are only looking 124 years in the past.

I JUST WANT TO SAY ONE WORD TO WHO EVER IS COMING, OR WHO S ALREADY HERE....... WELCOME.😇😇❤❤🙏🙏

The answer is never aliens, until it is.

If alien life exists on that planet, nothing worse could happen to it than us finding out. We don’t even respect our own.

While I think the possible discovery of life on another planet is a life-changing achievement, you lost me talking about preparing to bridge the communication gap with aliens.🤔

Imagine all the money and resources put into war be used for science to better our lives and space exploration.

My next door neighbor is an alien.

@SpursCCXIV

Ай бұрын

Mork from Ork

@rampager1990

Ай бұрын

Lies!!!!!!!

Finally 🙄

Exciting but not so. Let's do the math. 124 light years. Can't send anything there. We don't have the technology to get there and will take maybe 100 or more years before we have the tech to travel those distances. It's like grasping for that shiny gold coin just out of your reach in a well. What we do have is a possible model to build our next deep space telescope sensors on.

It's not terrestrial life, it should be celestial life:)

did chatGPT wrote the last part of this video

Let us find peace in our own planet there is s hopeout there. We should not let this chance to go.

Go find out you dreamers. TD Atlanta

It's 124 light years away... and we cabt travel there anyways and even if we could somehow in future ..not a si gle person alive today would know what actually life like forms are possible that we dont have on earth

If there is life out there, they are probably wondering the same thing 🤔

Energy companies rubbing their hands.....if only we could exploit 🤔

It would require a large moon to sustain life. Same reason mars won't work as a planet for life, the moon is too small and to create a strong enough magnet field its core need a larger moon to power the core. Same goes for all planets and with one as large as this one it would require a large moon.

@TicTac2

Ай бұрын

maybe the case for advanced life but not simple life?

@RandalTurnerMKULTRA

Ай бұрын

@@TicTac2 I disagree, I don't believe even simple life would try to reproduce in an environment with a weak magnetic field and no running water, if water is stagnating in a pool on a planet in the habitable zone with no moon, the water will not pool but would evaporate into the atmosphere. One of the plans I created for reversing global warming requires us to clear land along beaches allowing sea water to come in on the tide and pool up in about a foot of sea water for miles and miles, when it stagnates it evaporates eventually creating clouds that rain down water on the Sahirah, Africa or wherever we figure out would work best , if earth didn't have a moon that creates tides we wouldn't have rivers and the sea would evaporate into a gas and freeze at the poles like on Mars, we also need a magnetic field to protect us, the moon pulls on the earth which is why we have tides, it also helps the earth create the magnetic field, no moon no magnetic field strong enough to protect life.