Scientists Discovered an Exoplanet That Could Host Alien Life

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One hundred twenty light-years from us, there is an exoplanet that can potentially host life. It's called K2-18b, and it's the world you'd want to visit. K2-18b isn't exactly like Earth. It's more like a Super-Earth. Yeah, it's 2.6 times larger and almost nine times more massive than our planet.
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@rehmanfiaz16666 7 месяцев назад

Imagine a Whole Planet without TikTokers. I wanna go

@XOX-fs4ww 7 месяцев назад

Imagine without 🐒 🐒 🐒

@lluucasiscool 7 месяцев назад

I hope the next video is about this

@trentonrichey8286 7 месяцев назад

Ok but TikTok has some of the funniest videos

@BasisthaAnand 7 месяцев назад

Come to India bro

@Jerharris90 7 месяцев назад

Given the grammar used, and the fact that you capitalized 'toktokers,' it indicates that we would not want you either.

@UdayAbhayPethe 7 месяцев назад

Being 120 light years away.. and possibility.. it means we are seeing only the past .

@pei-enhuang4858 7 месяцев назад

That's so true! The planet is so far that it took a long time for light to reach earth from that exoplanet

@retweaksatapathy106 7 месяцев назад

120 years in the past is not a very long time in Interstellar measurements.

@Akispark 2 месяца назад

That is true for the entirety of the nightsky you're looking at. Exoplanets millions of light years away that for our eyes look like they're dead are merely ancient light, a figment of the past. If we were to see them as they are right now they may already have civilized life on them.

@Centauri27 7 месяцев назад

Love your thought-provoking videos. The production is really good--so cinematic!

@Southwest_923WR 6 месяцев назад

China getting a real bang out of their personal lives!

@simpayshenaides 7 месяцев назад

Imagining after hopping on this new Planet, We all start from scratch how everything we live and we eat there. Specially new cell and species

@aronmui 5 месяцев назад

Dr stone has a similar kind of concept

@lil_yung_t 7 месяцев назад

I believe aliens are real but they're in a different universe. So I think it will be quite impossible for scientists to actually know where alien species are actually located

@tiglishnobody8750 7 месяцев назад

Uh that just multiverse and different universe are bit different from other

@user-nn4sp1vw3s 7 месяцев назад

Yes sure they wear fluffy pink panther in middle of Rome Italy..name Otto Italy number 🎱👁️ there is no another planet... unfortunately....is sad how many false illusion...and non scientific intelligence are pretending Scientists... monkey

@ilyasayusuf5447 5 месяцев назад

Alien doesn't have to be intelligent life. K2-18B show data of DMS, meaning there is microorganisms there 🤷‍♂️

@reubenpunnoose5356 7 месяцев назад

You put videos which are very interesting and knowledge giving things. Thankyou

@user-ts9jj7sy6e 7 месяцев назад

I have always loved what if videos 😊

@TheBreezus 7 месяцев назад

We need to work on our propulsion system designs. 1.3 Million years to only go 120 light years isnt going to cut it.

@user-wb3hg2xw3w 7 месяцев назад

What if Netanyahu died?

@connorking3022 4 месяца назад

Braindead comment.

@cup774 6 месяцев назад

Alien: are we at the wrong earth? Alien: idk there should be humans by now

@newisland3958 7 месяцев назад

I like all your videos it's the best I've seen ever!!

@ACE-G0D 7 месяцев назад

What if we could control every cell in our body

@Mustang1984 7 месяцев назад

Well then we could eradicate cancer.

@thealextrifier 7 месяцев назад

Yet the best we can do is send a radio signal 😕

@chance1774 7 месяцев назад

i already disagree with that thumbnail, it won’t be better than earth! that planet wouldn’t have all of our amazing plant and wildlife. nice to know it’s there but i’ll always be in favor of preserving the one we’re on. 💙

@slimeward8504 7 месяцев назад

I agree with you lol

@controlman7490 7 месяцев назад

Yea, but eventually we'll have to either leave Earth or die with Earth. In a billion years the Sun's luminosity will increase and all the water on homeworld will boil away and all life will be extinguished. Even if humans do move to another planet at some point that world will also die. It's an inevitable process. Planets are born and eventually their parent stars will kill them. Personally, I think that humans should at least attempt to move to another planet just to see if we can actually build another home on a different planet, but once that planet's star begins to die we should just accept our fate and die with that world. Constantly moving would get exhausting.

@Spenceham-km3nv 7 месяцев назад

hey guys same here of course

@stanley3895 7 месяцев назад

@@SurivalGames4EVERWomp womp

@chance1774 7 месяцев назад

@@SurivalGames4EVER what are you talking about? all i’m saying is that we should be preserving and protecting the planet we have instead of treating it as disposable simply because there’s another standing by. there’s no better place out there for us because earth is the only one specifically tailored to us. and as humans, all of the things you listed wouldn’t go away… we’d just be taking them with us anywhere we went. human nature.

@marylienx333 7 месяцев назад

Video idea: WHAT IF WATER WAS A SUPERFLUID?

@CringerKitty 7 месяцев назад

So, it's not like we'll ever make it there...ever.

@retweaksatapathy106 7 месяцев назад

We can if hibernation could be a possibility in the future.

@martham6 7 месяцев назад

@@retweaksatapathy106and create a spaceship that can last that long….

@user-fj7yk2lf3e 7 месяцев назад

We can if we manage to become a type 2 civilization

@CringerKitty 7 месяцев назад

@@user-fj7yk2lf3e You think that's likely with our current batch of humans? We still have a large chunk of the population that believe the Earth is flat.

@user-fj7yk2lf3e 7 месяцев назад

@@CringerKitty true and we do still have a large batch of people who agrue about how many genders there are so yeah your pretty much right

@AKG58Z 7 месяцев назад

We should set up a team to purely discover what these planets propties.

@snowdaniels 7 месяцев назад

How can you see a planet which is a million years away from ya!😂

@creepingtod 7 месяцев назад

If you cannot insult intelligently don't. That planet is more than a million years away, and if you don't know yet how we can see elements and size of exoplanets then you need to listen more and comment less yall

@snowdaniels 7 месяцев назад

@@creepingtod c'mon man how in the world can you make your so called telescope which has the capacity to magnify something which is more than a million years away, I mean one light year is about 9 trillion km, that means the exo planet is about 900 trillion km from earth , The James Webb Space Telescope is the most powerful space based telescope and can only magnify about 10 billion light years, we talking about 900 trillion bruh🙃 And this is why I hated science 😩

@user-ef5pe4bc5l 7 месяцев назад

Science is nothing but hypothesis. It is an ever-changing answer to unknown.

@cashie5053 7 месяцев назад

a lot of people fixate on other planets. They always say something along the lines of “oh, if earth ever gets too bad, we’ll just abandon it and find a new planet.” I completely disagree. Earth is our mother. Earth is our home. I can’t just leave it. I would rather die than get in a ship and fly to another planet. if the earth is about to die, i’ll die too. At least, it’s the price to pay for all of us consecutively killing it. love you earth 🩷

@Trastify 15 дней назад

Yeah but everything has to go one day, plus, you caring about earth more than your life is quite crazy 😅

@Trastify 15 дней назад

I don't really care if you die as well, go hug the scorching planet while I drink my beer 😂

@Trastify 15 дней назад

Plus earth has to go one day, even though we rely on it, I'd rather be enjoying a nice cold drink, rather than melting into my demise 😂

@shifterzx 7 месяцев назад

Hmm, why would a planet 9x more massive be BETTER than Earth? It would attract more asteroids and be harder to launch into outer space with a higher escape velocity requirement.

@shifterzx 7 месяцев назад

"Kepler-20 b, a Super-Earth located 950 light years away that is 1.6 times Earth's radius and 9.7 times it mass. Whereas escape velocity from Earth is roughly 11 km/s, a rocket attempting to leave a Super-Earth similar to Kepler-20 b would need to achieve an escape velocity of ~27.1 km/s. As a result, a single-stage rocket on Kepler-20 b would have to burn 104 times as much fuel as a rocket on Earth to get into orbit."

@bharatshetty4706 7 месяцев назад

Don't worry. We aren't going there yet.. CHILL out.

@bwar1 7 месяцев назад

Imagine how the gravitational pull would look like, when a human step on it

@creepysherlock8131 7 месяцев назад

@@bharatshetty4706more like, ever

@thatidiotoverthere6311 7 месяцев назад

Best channel fr

@OfficialCubey 7 месяцев назад

@DewKeyKnow 7 месяцев назад

so this is one of the products of that telescope, this is so cool!

@fahimredwan 7 месяцев назад

Love what if videos🥰🥰🥰

@christoferburgabustamante274 7 месяцев назад

Super interesting video..!

@TheJattMC 7 месяцев назад

Can’t accurately predict next weeks weather on earth, forget about a planet that’s thousands of light years away.

@_Future_IITian 7 месяцев назад

I am thinking about a question from many days please make a video on it. "WHAT IF MASS LOSSES INERTIA?"

@Eric-Matthews_SAW2-SAW4 7 месяцев назад

Usually who knows if we went there

@lluucasiscool 7 месяцев назад

what if we went to war with alien life light years away?

@christiabacon8001 7 месяцев назад

The animation is next level!🤠

@anomalousboobs 7 месяцев назад

Unrelated, but I had an idea for an episode. Can you do a What If all of the guns and modern weaponry disappeared from the earth? Would be interesting.

@darshan.b685 7 месяцев назад

I mean then u should take away all the materials and metals that are used to make guns and Armoury but then we cannot survive but ur idea is a good one ❤

@shaunosmorrison8385 7 месяцев назад

now to make a custom system in Universe Sandbox that consists of K2-18b, Proxima b and Ross 128b and see how high I can get the life likelihood percentage to be

@sasikumar-ktmrider3904 7 месяцев назад

Superb 👍❤️😍

@kimbratton9620 7 месяцев назад

What If is the best!!

@GREENGAMER41 7 месяцев назад

Um I’m staying here!😂😂

@a.k.e.epvz2791 7 месяцев назад

Seems cool!

@AmericaStrongestCountry 7 месяцев назад

i've subbed for 1 year

@devileyez78 7 месяцев назад

Can we just get the Fahrenheit degrees for the country that matters? 😂😂🤷🏻‍♂️

@pedrocruz4409 7 месяцев назад

There’s no more what if’s then?

@saulshelly6174 7 месяцев назад

Video idea: what if everyone where as smart as Albert Einstein

@CR78965 6 месяцев назад

Some days 124 years but this video is 120 years

@malcolmbartram5273 7 месяцев назад

How can we get a probe there? If not how do we know what is there?

@Malakazz 7 месяцев назад

How can it be better if we cant breathe there

@myhearto 7 месяцев назад

What if light travelled twice as fast

@robertjnnongsiej2693 7 месяцев назад

Everything in the universe has an amazing n curious about knowing new thing like exo planet, giant star , black hole even the supernova , but for now earth is the best n the beautiful ever planet except the star which v can't think of even getting to live there ....👏🏻 Just a clap of a thumbnail

@tsatele21 7 месяцев назад

What if we had a telescope that was like a googol miles long and a googol miles wide. What can we see with that?

@XoryneNevezel 7 месяцев назад

Thats cool

@somekindofmonster3613 7 месяцев назад

I wonder what beautiful places I will be missing in the universe. Makes me kinda sad

@truth2power528 7 месяцев назад

I have a feeling this planet was discovered inside a computer. Very beautiful cgi imaging.

@Mrbigmike311 7 месяцев назад

I visited proxima century B, I can tell you that planet doesn’t not have any life in it. You actually need to terraform it in order to be a living world. Alpha Century III on the other host a breathable world and a nice fauna and flora. It also has a moon just like earth. Having the star makes so much more nice that every sunset is like Tatooine. But in order for humans to get there, we really need to become one single nation to stop pettiness of war amongst us when thousand of worlds out there can be colonized.

@anamikaagarwal1774 6 месяцев назад

Visited?!

@AntiTankLover 6 месяцев назад

What???

@harikrishna9590 7 месяцев назад

Nature has a property that must have a pair of any life and about earth we can assume there must have similar but female planet in the universe.

@josephsmith9974 7 месяцев назад

How do they really know huh he just said it’s millions of light years away

@snowdaniels 7 месяцев назад

Where have you been all my life😂

@attanayakeanuda 7 месяцев назад

Earth is our mother

@YusukeEugeneUrameshi 7 месяцев назад

How do we know the things about these planets light years away from us?

@Pantherslee 7 месяцев назад

This is the could be video ... Coulda , Woulda Shoulda

@firestormthelovewing2114 7 месяцев назад

3:39 actually if it was a gas giant creatures on that world would be similar to those seen in earths oceans and skies and be big as entire cities

@Hooman-sd8mi 7 месяцев назад

Idea: what if mount st Helens was a supervolanco

@lebranding Месяц назад

Imagine we lived on those exoplanets and discovered Earth, observing its blue waters and beautiful green mountains. Let's try to save Earth first before attempting to figure out how to reach those exoplanets.

@BigHambachi 7 месяцев назад

First griddy on the moon

@415nices 5 месяцев назад

keplings: there might be life on earth earthlings: there might be life on kepler

@ragibrownak102 7 месяцев назад

I wanna leave earth and moving to another planet seems pretty good option than being dead

@Chinga3000 4 месяца назад

Oh my word it's Javier Escuella from Red Dead RedemptionII!!

@HughS-kp1fv 7 месяцев назад

We gonna ignore.... how the surface is red? We should probably look at numerous blue and green planets first. I ain't a scientist, but it seems logical to try and find a planet that looks like earth.

@akbarkhan2192 7 месяцев назад

Well Uranus is blue but it stinks of methane and is completely toxic

@user-fj7yk2lf3e 7 месяцев назад

But aliens could probably adapt to this environment

@lisapeters9287 3 месяца назад

Don’t you know that K2 18 B does indeed have dimethyl sulphide

@lisapeters9287 4 месяца назад

There’s also a K2 18 C

@noahtylerpritchett2682 6 месяцев назад

Germany literally has hyperspace projects lol

@cheleviticus8255 7 месяцев назад

I love my home bro though it has problems but no where is too safe.

@jagannadhv5224 6 месяцев назад

Bro seriously discovered planet 128 light and cannot know proxima

@MikeAnderson-wh1kc 7 месяцев назад

How would it take humans 1.2 BILLION years to reach anywhere close to this planet but the James Webb telescope that was launched a few years ago got close enough to look at was able to gather info about it??

@derpalmendieb942 7 месяцев назад

because it moves way quicker than we could possibly travel ourselves (as of now)

@jerof2026 7 месяцев назад

We’re basically looking at the past since it took 120 years for the light to reach earth. The telescope isn’t going anywhere to take photos. It stays orbiting the sun. You can compare the telescope to your camera but the light you capture is coming from afar

@andybeeres2452 7 месяцев назад

First of all it's 1.2 million years, and that's travelling at an average speed that our rockets typically accelerate to. It takes 120 years for the light to reach the earth as the light is always travelling at its usual speed. When we use a telescope we can see the planet as it was 120 years in the past as that's how long the light takes to travel to us.

@Reyna_Aleese 5 месяцев назад

@@andybeeres2452 I’m so confused on light years. How are we looking at a planet from 120 years ago, If this new telescope just recently discovered it?

@andybeeres2452 5 месяцев назад

@@Reyna_Aleese it discovered it because it looked in the right place. The planet will be billions of years old but there's trillions of planets to find using telescopes and we can't find them all straight away, sometimes we find planets that are closer to us that we've overlooked for various reasons. Now they've discovered they can calculate how far away it is using various methods. So if it's 120 light years away it's taken 120 years for that light to reach earth and us to notice it. It takes a year for light to travel 6 trillion miles so to travel 120 light years would mean travelling 720 trillion miles. That would take millions of years even with our fastest rockets.

@kefimbando9137 7 месяцев назад

Potentially host life u said that in could host life in the title

@brandonharristsw7516 7 месяцев назад

Wow

@iamcorneliu1097 7 месяцев назад

Could host life; * not human life * but life😂

@felixjinu1565 7 месяцев назад

Universe is amazing. It is not understood in our human imagination. 📡

@FireIsNotHot 7 месяцев назад

You can't find another planet like earth 😏

@happyandhealthy888 6 месяцев назад

3:20 please give us a break with that info

@govindnaik98 7 месяцев назад

I wish iv existed during the stone age era 🌴🦤

@DrivinChillin 7 месяцев назад

This Is Epic I Mean It Would Be Great If We Can Leave Earth And Live On That Planet Its 9 Times Bigger Than Earth!!

@Benjamin_0fficial 7 месяцев назад

How is this better earth?

@ultrad-rex1389 5 месяцев назад

That's the thing. It isn't. It isn't like Earth at all.

@areswiseman6475 7 месяцев назад

I love the ai animation is more cool than the planets 🎉

@nikolaveljkovic428 7 месяцев назад

Even 1G is hard for me, 0,5 would be fine...

@rhymeislam7344 7 месяцев назад

explain projectors Juse from Rise of Cobra movie

@user-vg7mu6yn5o 5 дней назад

Nine times more massive? - we could never live there because a 100lb person would weigh 900lbs.

@supermarioennerd8687 7 месяцев назад

Damn

@ermirdestani 7 месяцев назад

"It is like earth but the air may not be breathable" how should I understand this? So far the conclusion is that it is not like the earth.

@snowdaniels 7 месяцев назад

What if humans lived in the 10th dimensional space 😉

@user-lo3sk3mp5x 5 месяцев назад

Очень интересно .

@brandonharristsw7516 7 месяцев назад

Is that real

@rhymeislam7344 7 месяцев назад

explain projectors Juse from Rise of Cobra movei

@kapikoyli 7 месяцев назад

I think NASA already discovered a planet like this but dont telling us.

@Plmkjh 7 месяцев назад

Good

@ivanfergusonfotwe4123 7 месяцев назад

What if our solar system had only rocky planet.

@thatmaninblack 7 месяцев назад

So... it's just like Earth, except has no air that you could breath. And probably there is no water either, because maybe it's acid. Also, it's extremely cold... in other words, it's nothing like Earth and 99.9999% that it's not even an M class planet for any life. 😀