The Closest Alien Planets

Jupiter's orbit is 12 years. We weren't watching ANY of the stars for 12 year Transits. So the small amount of recorded gas giants comes from lack of observation, not empirical evidence.

I can't imagine how much time and effort it takes to make the footage showing these planets, they all look amazing and really get the imagination going. I can't wait to see what James Webb is going to teach us! Top quality video as always, any upload from you makes the day better, but a space video from you makes my whole week <3 (so yes please, more Astrobiogeography) also nice ATLA easter egg

Proxima Centauri, Proxima D, Proxima B, Proxima C. The four celestial bodies lived together in harmony. But everything changed when Proxima Centauri had a huge flare.

Yes please astrobiogeology. As long as we're throwing prefixes around, I'd like to see some speculation about how astrobiogeochemical cycles would be different from our cycles here on earth.

Our understanding of solar systems is being completely redone these last decades. The common and purely theoric assumption was that most planets of other galaxies were gas giants, and that because of the comparative rarity of our star type, most systems were not only inhabitable but not even interesting. Yet, we now know how frequent solid, terrain planets are, and just how frequent water is on a galactic level (of course, in different states). Not only that, but dim, little stars can also have interesting solar systems and interact with them in novel and surprising ways (allowing for better temperature at short distances than big stars). I fully agree that the universe is really rich, and the probability of alien (animal) species is exceedingly high!

I used to come to this channel for the science but I stayed for the occasional glimpse of his cat. Show us the cat 🐈 more often, please.

Not to mention how even if these earth-like potentially-habitable planets haven't developed any life, there's still the part where it might be able to support human life with minimal adaptation (be that biological or technological, like space suits and all that fancy stuff we use for space as we know it) needed.

8:50 I do be lovin that Avatar Referance!

Crazy to think that even if we would ever figure out how to travel at almost lightspeed it would still take over 4 years to travel to the closest planet with potential life

Caelan, thank you for an outstanding production! 🤩 For a long time I have wished someone would make a video that explored our closest exoplanets in logical order🖖. Others tend to present these planets in a very random way, which left me rather confused. Good work! I would love to learn about astrobiogeograghy so by all means do it!

8:54 The use of the emblems of the elements from Avatar The last Airbender are those little things that make me like this channel even more!

"Astro...bio...geography" is why I first subscribed to this channel. Please make more!!!

Ive never been this early before

Good to see the four nations put to use in this video!

Man. It's amazing! We've been so used to the JWSP being delayed over and over again it's kinda sureal that it's finaly in place. Cannot wait for the first images ones the testing and calibrations are done!

'Wolf 359' .....Huh, that star is real and not something invented for Star Trek. Neat.

I'd love to see more astrobiogeography tbh, this study is super interesting

Trek fans hearing Wolf 359: “We don’t talk about that place”

I'm glad you included moons in other star systems as possibly habitable. Personally, in the search ET, I think we should explore our solar system's moons more than focusing on other star systems.

It's epic to imagine James Webb sending us results from the Tau Ceti system, and the entire world going crazy with the prospect of advanced alien life from findings of oxygen in one of those atmospheres!