Many of you have asked don’t we already know exomoons must be out there based on their abundance in the solar system? To some degree yes but there are many unusual aspects of the solar system so moons could be far rarer in other systems potentially. But moons would be fascinating diverse objects potentially hosting life and so we really want to be able to study these fascinating worlds. Obviously a necessary first step in their study is their detection!
For sure, and if the story of exoplanet detections has taught us anything, it's that the earliest confirmations will be the behemoths that have no current solar system equivalent. On the other hand, this type of detection bias can't be used as the basis of a rational argument for 'rare Earth' or 'rare Sol' hypotheses.
Thank you for this fascinating content ! 👍 ...is there a way to support you with single donation/s too? (paypal?) A question: is it possible to "see" exomoons (visual light) some day? Maybe at least in the near solar systems? (with eELT?) ...or in infrared with JWST? (or do we have to wait until breakthrough starshot?) Great work, hope you can continue...
I read about researchers in the Netherlands finding exo planets around red dwarves with radio telescopes by detecting their aurora. It made me wonder if a similar method couldn't be used on large known exo planets to detect possible moons that might interact like Io and Jupiter.
@@DrFuture84 That sounds really sketchy, but I'm no expert on Aurorae. If true, this would have huge implications for nailing down the habitability index of planets in flare-prone M-dwarf systems. Do you remember where you read that?
@@margu4u I hate to tell you this and I realize your query is not aimed in my direction, but I have both bad and good news for you, anyhow. Breakthrough Starshot will remain hypothetical for a very long time and likely forever. However, your other queries I view in a far more optimistic lens. Oh hell yes, we will absolutely image exoplanetary bodies in the next 1/4 century. And yes, as this is a game of repetitions, their moons will likely not escape our notice, either. Have you watched Launch Pad Astronomy's video on the solar gravitational lens? He describes a feasible imaging solution I'd never even thought of, and it kind of blew my mind.
@Trevor Chase you really should consider doing this 😊🙏 A world with more of this sharing of passion can only be a beautiful thing. We don't need any more famous celebrity singers and "reality tv" personalities... We need empassioned, visionaries sharing their minds, to empower and empassion others to pursue their passions whatever they may be. I commend you for even considering this idea, and i sincerely hope you do. Namaste ✌
@Trevor Chase I am subscribing to you. I’m not a smart person. But I am smart enough to know I need to support the smart people in what they do so we can advance as a species
This channel is going to be even bigger over the next few years.. High quality content with expertise demonstrated. Funding can also come from private investors, hoping things continue to go from strength to strength
I remember there was a time when the search for exoplanets wasn't taken seriously, that it was assumed it would be too difficult to detect them. I believe it took decades just to get Kepler telescope approved! You could find countless examples where a scientist had an idea, but no one took it seriously until decades later. For example, Alfred Wegener tried to convince others of continental drift, and was ridiculed in his lifetime. True discovery is never easy. More power to you!
When you let the beat drop at 30:35, revealing that half of exomoons have a Pttv value between two and four, I felt the beauty of it! And then the followup that only 1% of planetary Pttv values would land in the exomoon range...that was the mic drop. This is a truly innovative way of discovering likely exomoons by meeting only one criterion, rather than meeting two criteria which tend to fight each other. Amazing!
Agree completely, brilliant work, and explained in a way I can understand despite no training in this field! Great science communication aided further by genuine passion and excitement.
@@glasshalf3839 I work with 25-35 year olds nighty, and just found out NONE can tell time, or write cursive, or know THE NAMES OF ANY PLANETS EXCEPT MARS! There NOT being taught NOTHING. FIVE couldn't dived 5 Into 20, I kid you not, He, she,she and another he said, " iown know, that's old math"! SMDHOL! AMERICA,S FUTURE IN SPACE IS FUCKED! SORRY, MY OPINION!
Humans can be so terrible. I'm glad you didn't let those people discourage you. It takes a huge amount of energy to push forward, especially when you have little or no support. Your videos are amazing. Thank you for all your effort.
This is one of my favorite videos of yours (and that's saying something!). I really enjoyed hearing about the trajectory of your career. Thank you for sharing! :)
One of the best stories I heard in a long time, I'm so happy that you could follow your passion thru all that. This makes me quite sad that I didn't manage to be part of the science World, well I'm dissapointed in me every day, but this hit harder. I am impressed that you could stay strong against the people that laughed at the work your are passionate about, I can't even walk into a class room with people that just sit and wait till class starts.
Once again you have managed to explain something to someone who knows nothing about the physics involved. But you managed to put it in laymen terms. Thank you, and you have my support! I'm ordering a shirt today! I wish you nothing but the best! People like yourself continues to give me hope for humanity! You never give up!
It is such a privilege to listen to this kind of research straight from you. You had my attention till the very end, fascinating to listen to your story and your journey down the path less taken, Prof. Kipping.
Keep on going moon guy!!! Your dream will come true!!! It makes perfect sense based on our own solar system that Jupiter like planets will have dozens of exomoons!!! It took 80 years for exoplanets to gain popularity!! Love your tenacity.. it is how things get done...wisdom from a 67 year old still kid at heart and loving the possibilities in our universe!!
man, i understood maybe 20% of this calculation/explanation, but your passion came through so hard, I am rooting for you and the exomoon research!!!!!!!! its so exciting to listen to your videos, i love space so much!!
I am currently studying my PhD looking into artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, I feel my research is no where near to how profound and incredibly difficult as yours was but your story invokes hope, it shows that passion will always pave the way to greatness and will always serve to fuel progress.
You are so inspirational. Pushing through something when others thought you were barking up the wrong tree. Wish I had this stick-with-it-ness. Also, what a great story teller you are.
- - " " " . . . A N D . . . . . . with inspiring life lessons . " " " - The Cool W -- episode about canals on mars . . . highlights your viewpoint . . . very - well . -
It’s people like you David that push our human understanding forward. It’s inspiring and wonderful to listen to. You are the moon man and that’s the best compliment you could receive as you push forward where they follow. Long May it continue.
Time and again we discover that going back to basics (Nyquist in this case) yields valuable insights. It's that Einsteinian childlike curiosity that mines the real gold.
David is a very comforting fellow.. I used to listen to Segan's voice while working. I can see myself doing the same here. Yet another thoughtful genius to watch and listen to. The production quality is superb.
Thomas Edison: Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration. I believe you are the personification of this sentiment, Professor Kipping,- and in doing so you present the inspiration needed for others to pursue their understanding of wonders of the universe. Thank you for making these great videos.
These videos are the reason why I’m going back to school and pursue my dream of becoming an astronomer. One could only imagine all the limitless possibilities in the vacuum of space, and being able to live in a time where science and technology is exponentially improving, I would be a fool not to join in on the adventure. Thank you, David. Keep up the stellar work, you never know how many people will be inspired to do the same!
Watched this to help me go to sleep, and ended up more awake and wanting to find exomoons. Love this channel more and more with each upload, keep up the good work!
So sorry I can’t help because I just managed to get myself out of homelessness, but I freaking love what you do, hope you will continue doing this for the next 10 years🙌🏾👌🏾
One thing I really like about this RU-vid channel compared to many other education entertainment channels is that this channel includes many primary research pieces and not just secondary. Fun to see first hand stuff
You countered under sampling with over sampling aka. simulating the distribution of the ttv corridor to come up with a constant confidence interval for different underlying distribution. This is really beautiful and tells us something much deeper about the equation that no matter what the underlying distribution the truth lies in that small cute interval. ❤️❤️❤️ This is pure genius. 🙏🙏
I just want to say, THANK YOU. Thank you for all these videos and your incredible work on this exciting subject in the face of adversity. You are a huge inspiration to me and I will always look up to you. Thank you.
I love channels like this, made by passionate people within the industry...has the combination of the enthusiasm that you find in channels reporting on the subject, along with the credibility and deeper knowledge of the expert in the area.
This is really exciting and inspiring. I hope exomoons will soon become a thing and that they will begin getting discovered in the dozens and then we would witness new wonders which we will owe to people like you and your team!
I love how a wild combination of passion, mathematics, computational models, number crunching power and abbreviations end up in brute-forcing the crap out of this undersampling by the means of oversamling it in a model. My paradox is that many of your videos are rather therapeutic and have got nothing to do with science for me. I can just listen, submerge and enjoy even if half of those things go above my head at a closer look. This one, however, is also very inspiring. Good on you David. Never give up your dream!
Truly an amazing underdog story and I'm so glad you persevered with it. Your work is absolutely amazing and I look forward to hearing updates to this. Thank you for sharing your story Prof. Kipping and of course, good luck in your continued hunt for answers of the universe.
This is like, Some Anime Back story. Damn Beautiful. You got our support! I love this, we Love this, Know that you Got a huge support on your back even tho it may not seem so. Belive us! we belive in you.
I'm a 41-year-old single mom working on a Bachelor of Science in general studies, and hearing how you pressed on in spite of obstacles really helps me keep going. I had wanted to get into astronomy, but that didn't work out. I struggle with math and physics, so I've shifted to more down-to-earth studies (geology) where my strengths lie. I'm always inspired when I hear stories like yours. Thanks for sharing!
I can’t find the words to describe how much I love the videos this channel produces. I listen to them every night, and end up listening to them so late into the night I usually fall asleep listening to them! I can say that I still awoke being able to explain TTV and TDV to my husband 😀😂🤣 Please keep reporting your findings and theories; they’re so interesting and engaging. You definitely have an audience that is SUPER excited by your work.
I got lost in a noisy thread, sorry to repeat: Moments like this make me grateful to be alive at this point in history. To commemorate, allow me to paraphrase the most famous haiku ever : An old moon. Far away a mind watching its seasons Silent no longer
I know that noisy thread! 😂 That came out of nowhere. I do think it's good to be alive in this period, we are at the cusps of great final era discoveries and it's exciting.
I wish I had your strength, ability and dedication. Please do t ever lose what you have. I speak as someone who's made a mess of so much of his life and now looks back on the potential I once had and hate that I can't go back to myself in my late teens and early 20s and not make the mistakes that lead me down a road that took me to places in my late 20s that have left me now probably never able to follow my passions. I try my best to concentrate on smaller things and seeing what great things others have done to make me happy but there's a,ways that wish of what could have been. It's better to regret what you did than what you didn't and that's so true. I'd heard your name long before I discovered this channel and physics, space, futurism, ExO planet hunting and Astro biology are just things i spend hours trying to learn about while I do nothing important with my day time so well done to you, keep going. Don't ever let people laughing at that moon guy discourage you. You're an inspiration to the next generation and people who spend their days looking back at what could have been a like. Great channel by the way. If I ever do anything with myself you'll be receiving whatever donations I can manage. Regards and keep going. Till then subbed and will be watching every video you release 👍
I am not rich but me not skipping ads hopefully helps your funding. You are amazingly inspiring man. I am in awe that I am actually following a pioneer in the middle of his career! You're the moon guy and we are your subsatellites following your journey. Giddy! Oooh Goosebumps
I don't think it is mate...There are a lot of us followers, who are hooked to this young and briliant astronomers, and the ranks are growing all the time bigger and bigger.
I can't help but admire your Steely dedication to the Exomoon project, it's seriously awe inspiring. As an amature astrophotographer taking noisey middling quality images of Nebula, Galaxies, and our local planets, I still find myself endlessly amazed with what my cheap equipment can show me, then I find videos like yours talking about the bleeding edge of Astronomy or SFIA describing the various Megastructures we could possibly build, it makes me endlessly excited to see what we can do next, what we can *find* next. I can only hope we figure out a decent method of life extension soon so I don't miss out on the centuries and millennia of Discoveries and projects to come!
There was a time, not that long ago, when searching for exoplanets was difficult and frustrating. But today we know of hundreds, and know that they are very common. Our own solar system is proof that moons are even more common that planets. The cosmos is teeming with moons. Your efforts will be rewarded. In a scale that will leave you astounded.
David thank you for this Cool Worlds episode, but not only about explaining on the main topic, but also for your story. As long as we keep trying there is a chance. I will put that on my wall to remind myself avout it every day. Bless you.
Hey David, how did you optimize your software? I can see your github is a bit outdated. Maybe we can rewrite some critical parts to make it work faster?
I would also like to volunteer for something like this. I see big potential for introducing Neural Nets and Unsupervised Learning techniques to discover new patterns. You should link to some of your datasets to let people play around with them! Also, fantastic video! Love to see someone so passionate about their work that it makes it truly engaging and entertaining for others to listen to.
It's an amazing time to be alive. If greats like Newton and Einstein had RU-vid channels would they be as compelling, as entertaining, as informative, and as charismatic as Dr. Kipping? Unlikely. Thank you, Cool Worlds team!
Your choice was right! You are better and finally succesful if you follow your heart! Your great ability of speaking in your videos helps a lot as well!
As a RU-vid addict, I have to say most of these scientific/educational videos I watch, I kind of glaze over and not pay too much attention to but there’s something about this channel (specifically identified in this video) that draws my undivided attention. I love what you guys are doing! Please keep the amazing content coming!
David, you are such an inspiration, making the Universe look so beautiful, intriguing and yet knowable!! This would be like the momentous finding of 1995 when the 1st hot-Jupiter was discovered. And that name 'moon guy' sounds so cool !!
That's awesome David! Your research is fascinating and I am so glad you share it with us in such an entrataining format! I am starting a research career in AI(and maybe computational neuroscience) but I almost feel like I should have gone for astronomy, it just sound so interesting and mesmerising
Professor Kipping. I belong to another scientific "branch", social sciences. Anyway, I can't help but identify with your description of the academy and the process of scientific discovery. Congratulations on the recent discovery and I take this opportunity to thank you for the dedication you put into each of the videos. Thank you. Greetings from Argentina
I'll be honest, i don't care that much about exomoons, but your enthusiasm is such an inspiration! Awesome work! Hope you find all those exomoons out there!
As much as I would like to, I'm not gonna offer any platitudes since I'm sure that's the last thing you want to hear. However, it sure will be great one day when I can tell people that I used to watch RU-vid videos made by the world leading Exomoon expert. Oh and by the way, those videos were some of the best insights into cosmology that I've ever seen. Keep at it my friend. The fruits of your labor cannot be guaranteed, but the harvest is impossible without the work you've put in.
I'm sure you're familiar with the SETI@home project. Would it be feasible to create similar software to seek exomoon candidates in Internet-accessible datasets?
I personally think seti is kind of a waste of time given our limited technology. Meti is better but still runs into the same problems. A small, limited and very slow reach. Until we find a better way of transmitting as well as listening for information and signals.
Well done, you must be thrilled with all the hard work you have put in. Just remember the work you have done so far has already changed science forever, everything else is a bonus. I'm sure with your enthusiasm and tenacity you're going to make so many more discoveries. Please continue keeping us up to date regularly, it makes me feel involved. Thank you.
You will make it, i always believed , Not only planets but even moons around planets can harbour living things. We need to look beyond our comfort zone
I love listening to this. Thank you for sharing your amazing story. Warms my heart and I hope you find the courage and purpose to keep doing what you love ❤️
Only recently discovered this channel, but I have already become a huge fan. Very informative and well explained content, that is easy to consume for general people. Much needed! Of all your videos, this is one of my favorites. Fighting against all odds, to achieve goals - very inspirational! Astronomy lessons aside, its a life lesson for all of us. Thanks David.
