Did James Webb's Telescope Actually Detect Artificial Light on Proxima B?

At some point or another, anyone who has even a tiny bit of interest in science and astronomy think to themselves, "Are we alone in this Universe?". The rough reality is that no one can definitively answer this question… we simply don't have any evidence of extra-terrestrial life. But our human mind absolutely refuses to take "no" as an answer! Because we were taught "seek, and you shall find", right?
It is always worth searching for something hidden in plain sight, somewhere in close vicinity. It is apparent that if there is no other life form in the Solar system… then the search needs to start around the nearest next star. Today we will try to answer the question whether the nearest start system contains signs of life (Proxima B), or if it is yet another cold cosmic desert, just like trillions of systems similar to this one?

[@jamestaylor2607]

The title suggested a detection of artificial light but this was never mentioned

[@WaywardVet]

Yeah, I was very disappointed by that false title. Video could just be "No. But let me tell you other stuff"

[@Atomicitalia]

@@WaywardVet this is exactly what i check the comments on videos like these for

[@sfsinfinity5862]

Bruh you’re right. Well, let’s just at least enjoy whatever gibberish he’s gonna say.

[@emrahe468]

Clicking dont recommend this channel is the best solution

[@markipalooza2]

The section beginning at 4:50 mentions that radio waves were detected originating from the system, and that they could have been artificial, though highly unlikely. Radio waves and all other forms of electromagnetic radiation are light, just not on the visible spectrum.

[@scotthoward3470]

So the short answer to this clickbait title is no. JWST does have the capability to detect atmospheres on exoplanets, however, it has not been commissioned yet to do any research on Proxima Centauri B. I’m all for entertaining people and even educating them (and I love space science content), but could you please do it without using clickbait titles? This seems to be a recurring theme on YT, especially in regards to JWST and the Proxima Centauri star system, unfortunately, as I have seen the same type of clickbait videos on many other channels.

[@calvinmasters6159]

So what about the artificial lights?

[@Hemnin]

.. they could be city lights man, artificial light means light that is not by Any of the stars that it’s orbiting.. there could be aliens on The planet!

[@Mannwhich]

@@Hemnin Love how you call them aliens on their own planet. 😏

[@TheTransporter007]

I came here to say exactly this. Unfortunately due to the KZbin algorithm any videos below 10 minutes of length generally never appear in suggestions or search. So you get KZbinrs filling their video with lots of extra stuff just to make a 2-minute point at the end

[@stringbean1511]

@@Mannwhichthey would still be alien to us you moron

[@Telephonebill51]

Doesn't come up! He's totally full of shit.

[@dantevortex]

The best quote on all of this is still the same; “Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.” As we all know humans are very aggressive and possessive, and will stop at nothing to just take whatever they want. So why would aliens be any different? And if these aliens somehow maintained harmony and made sure they do not have that trait, why would they allow humans to come close to them? If aliens exist in any form or another developed enough to control time and space by the time we can, they would probably just shoot us out of their sky the moment we come close. We would do exactly the same as well. Alien ship floats over our skies, it gets shot down. That's what's going to happen. There's no way humans in the current form and stage will be able to peacefully expand. We haven't even found out how to peacefully live on our own planet yet.

[@ferrybef]

thats a fact. stephen hawking , one of the greatest minds of all time.

[@LUFC273]

I believe being alone in the Universe is more frightening because it means that all our dreams of getting to deeper space is impossible and it also means that life is extremely rare and wont last forever

[@nickbroughton928]

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself

[@koriw1701]

@dantevortex, it would have been nice if you had given the source of this quote. It was said by Arthur C Clarke. But occasionally, it is claimed that has been attributed to physicist Jeremy Bernstein who supposedly had this thought while speaking with Clarke and Stanley Kubrick about the ending of 2001: A Space Odyssey.

[@efhi]

Humans will come around eventually, aliens make take pity upon our evolutionary "defects" and impart some knowledge upon us.

[@curiodyssey3867]

oh man this channel is going to blow up big time. hella cool knowing I got in early before tens of thousands of subscribers find this lil here gem

[@sktbug6833]

I agree, this is excellent!!

[@jasoncaine2600]

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[@weldskaterepeat7379]

My thoughts exactly

[@godsonjohnson6257]

Most Earth humans don’t care about Astronomy or the most important things of life sadly.

[@Noodles36368]

Exactly!

[@cm5838]

Fascinating to think how close we may be to discovering alien life, a bit scary to think about the possibility we might be the most advanced. I want aliens to visit earth, give us technology to travel between galaxies and actually see this in my lifetime, that’s not too much to ask is it?

[@brabbit953]

Why in the hell would you give primitive primates that power in their eyes?

[@mortkebab2849]

Topics for future episodes that have not been touched upon much, or at all, by other channels: * Why space habitats are a better option than Mars, and how big can they be with current and near-term materials. * Panspermia: Why frozen microbes are worth looking for in the cometary cloud. * What might be done with space habitats once we have fusion power and therefore are no longer tethered to the inner solar system. * The use of the Interplanetary Transport Network (look it up) to re-supply habitats with materials such as water and frozen gases.

[@callumbush1]

The Parker Solar Probe is the fastest man-made ship it could reach the Alpha Centauri Star System in approximately 1000 years

[@randar1969]

Not really at his highest speed Parker Solar Probe will reach 692000 km/u. If you work out the math using 700000 km/h to have a nice round number that's 0.67% the speed of light. Meaning a trip to Proxima B with that speed would take roughly 6300 years. Feel free to calculate and correct me. But i am pretty sure my numbers are correct.

[@christoph4977]

@@randar1969 Close enough. My own calculations say about 7500 years, if you consider that Alpha cen will move to about 3,8 ly in 7000 years or 8.300 years if you ignore Alpha Cen's relative movement and assume a static distance of 4,2ly. My calculations for double checking: 4,2 ly equals 132.451.200 light seconds. Times 384400 km/s (c) you get the km distance of about 5*10^13 km. Dividing by 700000 km/h you get 72734630h = 3030609d = 8303y. Plugging in 3,8 gives me about 7500 years. ... but mate, what the f**k is km/u? Kilometer per atomic unit? :D

[@MauriceKinslow-zt2tc]

Ahem!Ummm,I think NASA and the scientist are wrong about getting to Centauri B in 18,000 years.Actually I know they are wrong.We can get there in 20 to30 years.😅

[@abdallahghannam5838]

Although you have only 2 videos but i would like to grab your hand tight and congratulate you on this amazing channel keep up the good work hope you have even more successful videos in the near future

[@tucker8594]

Loving this channel! 2 video, both excellent. Also helps that I can't get enough Alpha Centauri content...

[@jessiedesigns]

I have given up on all updates on finding life on proxima b. Every headline and title is “Life found on Proxima B!!!” Only to find that the video talk no facts but the possibilities. It’s always misleading it makes me cringe. but this video gives me hope Thank you.

[@overbymeistert]

Love this channel! Awesome narrator, love his voice and accent. And I can not for the love of all that is holy praise this channel enough for using video clips RELATED TO THE TOPIC!!!! So sick of all NN clips in videoes on simelar channels. Keep making those awesome videoes, you have a splendid recipe here!

[@TheGarmisch]

I hope this channel sticks around. Great videos. Side note; it's pronounced Soo-mer, not summer

[@alfonsopayra]

ANOTHER VIDEO THAT TALKS ABOUT WHAT IS GOING TO BE WITH A TITLE THAT SUGGESTS IT ALREADY HAPPENED

[@brandonb3279]

Very great video (and your 1st one too!). I'm really excited to see the next instalments on your channel! But there's a key mistake in the video I want to point out: @15:10 you seem to have conflated units of power (Terawatt) with energy (Terawatt-hour), which is a common mistake because they're related. And of course the similar language also adds to the confusion, so maybe it was just a typo? It's a very important distinction though because they're fundamentally different principles, so the statement doesn't make any sense. I really enjoyed the video though, so thanks for your hard work!

[@darkracer1252]

verry great video? you can clearly tell it's part of a longer documentary or something. all this guy did was cut a 20 minute section out of something someone else made.

[@brandonb3279]

@@darkracer1252 I disagree actually, it doesn't appear to be content piracy to me. I realise that's a significant problem on KZbin, and I readily shun any channels that just re-upload content they didn't make (although I make some exceptions if the content isn't readily available elsewhere, and it's not being presented as original). But as for this channel, it's the same guy's voice narrating every video. Maybe it's an AI voice, but generally I can recognize even a good AI narrator after ~5 minutes because of the cold lack of emotion and variation (although AI voices are getting better all the time of course). Also, this channel's upload schedule seems to be 1 episode every 2 weeks, which is reasonable for the effort involved. Whereas pirate channels usually seem to pump out several videos per week. And sure, the graphics and visuals look pretty professional, but these days anyone with good skills and software can create such things relatively easily, and there are services that sell them quite cheap. And finally the pacing and subject matter don't fit a mass-market TV show. Sure, he does use the simplest language possible (that should be standard unless talking to experts anyway!), but he takes the time to cover complex ideas to much more depth than I've heard in mass media in 3 decades. If this were a TV show or the like, they'd breeze over every idea, desperate to keep the attention of the dimmest troglodytes! I'm curious why you thought this was a pirated clip? Maybe you jumped to that conclusion too quickly (I've done that on occasion myself)? Do you still feel that way?

[@CosmicShieldMaiden]

This channel is going to blow up

[@Moodboard39]

Yea, why everyone is doing the same shit

[@famsteer]

You have a very good video here!! Glad I watched this.

[@alyson8052]

You’re an awesome channel!

[@hollstrom]

Superbly done presentation!

[@DrWoodyII]

"Did James Webb's Telescope Actually Detect Artificial Light on Proxima B?" Well, did it?

[@timgraham93]

Alien life even if it was possible does not necessarily mean that they are more advanced or even primitive. When you take into account the vast distances that we have to cover advanced or not its the same for any life they would still need to travel whether advanced or not

[@AJLaRocque54]

Outstanding video. Thank you.

[@davidarbuckle7236]

Great Content. Please keep the high quality and great scientific information coming.

[@tracetamiah1597]

I love this channel!

[@deannagiuliani8541]

Man it would be super cool if your titles had even a scrap of relevance to your videos. I love space info and would likely listen to them a lot more if the titles actually coincided with the videos.

[@espasmemuscular]

"as we know" is a key sentence. It's so tiring to constantly hear about the impossibility of life because of reasons exclusive to us. How about we look for life without the constrains of it as we know it here, we might end up missing something because of the assumptions we make about it.

[@jamesvlambert]

Love this channel. The narrator sounds like a NASA astronaut. The strong southern accent with appeal to many Americans, adding to its appeal.

[@omerta926]

Another great video

[@The..Dark..Knight]

4.3k subscribers?!? Unbelievable. This channel is phenomenal. I can't wait to see it blow up BIG TIME! A small Big Bang if you will.. lol. All matters in space definitely do matter. And so does this channel. Keep up the great work brother. You have a fan for life.

[@staceynewby7504]

This was nicely put! I agree 100 %.

[@MHillaryPhotography]

What a fantastic informatvie video!

[@gonzo3915]

A little optimism, thanks man.

[@abhishekdey9717]

Incredible channel, keep it up 👍🏻

[@proximaK218b]

Wow this is so very interesting and exciting!

[@idegteke]

Proxima centaurian is my second mother tongue, and the message means ”We know what you plan but don’t”

[@todayforever]

Uko tu sawa! Swahili meaning 'Good stuff 🤝 Loving your content 👍

[@montyvegas824]

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[@todayforever]

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[@montyvegas824]

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[@sebastiaanschram9353]

can i get a timestamp where this dude actually starts talking about ''Did James Webb's Telescope Actually Detect Artificial Light on Proxima B?''

[@idegteke]

1:03 I was laughing so hard on this Monty Python-ish reasoning: “If something is utterly and obviously impossible for the coming hundreds of years the very least, but potentially for ever, than we really must not spare ANY amount of the natural resources to give it a try anyway”. One day, I will be the pope so I’m already having the most expensive blessing classes money can buy.

[@sylvanbowyer341]

Did I miss the part about artificial light on another planet? Coz that's the only reason I clicked.

[@AndrOMOrph]

Proxima b is bombarded with radiation, so theoretically it could be biologically converted into light. Like microorganisms do on earth. Causing observable “light pollution” if you will.

[@nicholaspiscitelli7685]

I moved out of that neighborhood a long time ago, just for that reason. Just going to the store took forever.

[@fighterpimp]

haven't even made it to the planets in our system. Lets focus on other planets even farther away.

[@carmzilla]

Boom! Thank you! I am a Trekkie nerd and want to dream about traveling to distant star sytems but in reality until we have bases in orbit and colonies on planets and moons in our own system we will forever be unprepared.

[@davidwarner6755]

Did I miss it...what about the artificial light?

[@TheMindOfBrick]

😂

[@rolandthethompsongunner64]

So how much does the Planet Mercury cause our sun to shift? Because I’m skeptical a shift of an object that small could be accurately detected at that distance.

[@karl___marx]

Mercury doesn't have a significant effect on the shifting of the sun, Maybe a few miles, as the planet lacks any kind of significant mass to influence the sun.

[@craigthacker]

It would make sense that only star systems that have a gas giant to clear out the large number of meteors/astroids that are present in a stars formation would have any chance of having a rocky planet in the habitable zone that could sustain life. Without the gas giant, the other planets wouldn't have a chance to develop life because of all the impacts on the surface. This is a fascinating field that is advancing faster than any other at the moment and even more so with the James Web telescope (assuming the little hole it got didn't ruin any images that are forthcoming).

[@jgkitarel]

Save for the fact that those gas giants also tend to send things like asteroids in-system, meaning that a planet is likely to be subject to a nasty period of bombardment at least once. It is now established that Jupiter was less a shield to the inner planets than originally thought, as it is now known that the planet sent a lot of asteroids our way to hit us. That includes the protoplanet that crashed into us and created the Moon as the debris from that impact coalesced.

[@glennnile7918]

They do not just catch every rock in the solar system. They do disturb them. Some are propelled toward the Sun, some are sucked up by the gas giants. Some are propelled out of the solar system and some hit us. The end result is there are fewer rocks in our solar system.

[@travelpackgamerz]

CAN I ASK SOMETHING WEIRD QUESTION DID ANY LIFEFORM EXIST OTHER GALAXY?

[@Xxrasierklinge7]

How is a weird question? A large percentage of the population ask themselves this question daily.

[@SethSalinasMusic]

maybe this is far fetched but I've always thought that we are not alone simply because there's gotta be SOME other life that thrives in those climates, but then again, how could I prove it.

[@TheMindOfBrick]

Keep in mind that a more massive planet means more gravity, a factor in determining habitability.

[@billypoker7822]

Helious 2 was launched over 30 years ago, where is it at now?

[@JesseHughson]

This was a very strange update on Leon the lobster.

[@jus10lewissr]

Considering every single thing that has ever happened on or to this planet, the possibility of advanced intelligent life such as OURSELVES existing here is extremely low. Because of that, I personally find it harder to rule life out anywhere else where the possibilities are low as long as they're not confirmed to be 100% impossible.

[@sourabhkarmakar8040]

The answer to whether life exists outside earth or not is gonna be given by Europa clipper mission in the next decade.

[@Watchingthesim]

Great new channel.....can content be a bit longer though,x

[@MrWolfheart111]

Build a space telescope specific to Alpha Centarie and its suns. You be able to see everything

[@skeggiskjeldarson6639]

It is also believed to be a reflection from a guitar on The Lost Popstars Planet.

[@floridaman4073]

Proxima Centauri B could be an outpost, not originated from life that developed there

[@Vladpryde]

We are probably never going to leave our solar system for the very simple reason that the universe is expanding faster than the speed of light. So even if we had a ship tomorrow that was capable of faster-than-light travel, we'd probably never reach Proxima B.

[@thesealsharkproductions9780]

Who else thinks the Thumbnail makes it look like the JWST is the Death Star? :D

[@mikejarvis4139]

Factual errors in relation to Promima B orbit and Promima radiation overstated!

[@badbunny2107]

I visited that star system on starfield and it's extremely interesting if you know you know

[@bebotmaat1557]

It was also at this time that the VATICAN issued the famous VATICAN 2 that change their way of how priest conduct the daily Mass.

[@Obiter3]

Tardigrades could still possibly live on Proxima B.

[@cjkula]

title is entirely misleading.

[@innergi5516]

That would take 190 yrs to get there at that speed.

[@newsnowmilitia1147]

Never in a million years will we be able to travel that far

[@bebotmaat1557]

Proxima Centauri B harbor life. In fact Aliens of 4-7 reached Earth way 1961-62 and met Sps. Barney and Betty Hill from New Hampshire USA. Barney is a Postal Employee while Betty Hill is a Social Worker.

[@kalyan1987m]

The channel will blow up 😇

[@boriskaragiannis.7735]

7:10 that mean it could have a very old civilisation that is about to burn...end

[@morganpowell2999]

I love the content, and the southern accent is a very nice, very relatable feeling. You don’t often hear this kinda content from someone with a southern accent.

[@gasstationpeanuts1814]

Many of the best and brightest in the field are from the American South.

[@morganpowell2999]

@@gasstationpeanuts1814 I don’t doubt it, I’m from the south and live in the south. It’s just the southern accent isn’t the first one you think of for space narration. It’s nice, I like it.

[@lwdp74]

We discovered wheels, fire, nukes, and maybe fusion. If our species lasts long enough we could possibly advance past fusion. Boils all down to how much energy we can harness without destroying ourselves.

[@bebotmaat1557]

To give an insight, ALIENS of 4-7 from that PROXIMA CENTAURI B had reached way back 1961-62 to Earth. In fact Sps. Barney and Betty Hill from New Hampshire had met these ALIENS. It was a talked of the town that time and was covered by YOU TUBE.

[@darraghtalorgan1905]

Slight correction, Robert Innes was Scottish.

[@bro223]

Even we have superluminal capabilities., nothing can travel faster then that, so we have to warp the space, to make "shortcuts" between two spots.

[@nld0947]

It's just mind blowing 🤯 how tiny the Earth is compare to the scale of the universe. Earth is even smaller than a grain of sand when all sands on Earth represent number of stars in the universe. It's sad that we won't be able to explore the vast universe except our solar system during our lifetime. There is approximately 6-20+ TRILLION stars 🌟 out there. What is the chance of life out there? I am 💯 % certain that there is life out there. It's just toooooo farrrrrrr awayyyyy.

[@-Gunnarsson-]

when a probe reach 1% of lightspeed I will be impressed 😂

[@lamonmack3037]

They know we're not alone the truth is out there

[@jamescheddar4896]

I mean even if there's nothing there, we can put a checkpoint there

[@alexfeldman5146]

Well let me know when my flight tickets arrive 😮

[@koriw1701]

Just as an FYI. The "view of lights (or stars) flying past one's craft while traveling at high rates of speed in space" is an old trick used by the VFX department of the Star Trek franchise. A view of this kind has been debunked over and over again. You will *not see stars or flashes of light or any other thing traveling past one's ship to denote motion.* The viewers would believe that they were witnessing the ship travel in space if there was motion outside the windows, very much like driving in a car. Any real travel in space would see no such things because of the distance between objects in the galaxy (and by extension, the universe) Any and all real travel in space, no matter the speed, would see nothing to give the indication of motion. One would see the exact same thing were one standing still. The only reason that the Star Trek effects department added the colorful flecks, was to prevent the viewers from getting bored, and because things happen *on the ship while it is in motion* but the viewers need to believe that they are in motion rather than standing still, despite the fact that it *looks* that way.

[@glennnile7918]

If we continue to waste time, effort and money to look for life around Red Dwarf, we don't have to worry about dealing with extraterrestrial aliens. We will never find them.

[@mortkebab2849]

Well done!! Alpha Centauri A and B should be the targets for probes sent to that system. Proxima is a dud because of its tendency to flare.

[@outwild-australia8771]

hi woooo this is amazing

[@alejandrohernandez6181]

Exoplanets had a nice ring to it. But I love the sound of XOXOXO KISSES AND HUGS FOR OUR BLUE PLANET. As long if it's Blue keep it Blue Have it alive and well,just in case however needs to return can't mistake it for Mars 🤔

[@nateoz-pd6jq]

Dogon tribe knows it all.

[@miboxcmpinto4977]

What is artificial light?

[@ten-tonnetongue]

Thank you for actually narrating this yourself or contracting someone to do it. AI narration makes these kinds of videos unwatchable. I also like your writing. 👍

[@TheZoltanChronicles]

I think we've found a good channel, lads...

[@user-fs1bm5ih2s]

May be, my future wife was born there, because I can never see any sign that she is here on earth.. 😆

[@darijuskelpsas6043]

so, what about that artificial light ?

[@darkisland04]

Sumer is "Soomer", not "summer" like the season.

[@1904Ernst]

since when did steve bannon become an astronomi narrator

[@demonslayer9016]

The immenseness of the universe itself is evidence enough that life exists among the stars out of reach of humanities infantile technology

[@52memor]

it's actually 6,300 or 12,600 round trip

[@randy7068]

And yet nothing from JWST except pictures of far away galaxies.

[@16nowhereman]

Why don't we hijack a flying saucer and travel to Zeta Reticuli?

[@gonzo3915]

We were here at 1.5k, how long until 15 Milllion?

[@alexciocca4451]

When we get there it may not be there

[@submariner6g]

If you made something massive you would need to become massive. Imagine, moving faster than Helios than making another Helios!

[@LinkTheFusky]

i share Robert Innes' last name and really hope I can find my family tree somewhere to see if he's my great great grandad or at least a great uncle

[@popermen694]

I don't know if this is true, but I remember hearing about an ancient tribe of people that said gods came down from those two stars and taught them things. Crazy thing, is we didn't know it was a binary system until very recently, but this tribe said it was hundreds of years ago. Kind of neat.

[@CryptoFletch216]

Dogon people

[@mikedo6]

We have known the system was binary since the late 1600's. With the discovery of Proxima Centauri in the early 20th century, we learned the system was trinary.

[@bazpearce9993]

That's Sirius. Also complete bollocks. There are thousands of legends about Sirius, but people only believe this one coz it sounds so comfy.

[@bacardichasers]

i love our closest exoplanet so much that i wrote a little poem about it. when i say "your Proxima Centauri", i mean the planet, Proxima Centauri b. that "b" didn't quite fit it, rhyme-wise, so i just ommitted it 😎 put down your phone and hold my gaze i wanna hear all your stories if you’re Earth in solar grace, i am your Proxima Centauri when Saturn sells his precious rings, when Pluto starts a riot, reckless, when Venus packs her things and leaves, i'll still be there, across the blackness my sad red star made me a freak, i'm held by gravity in prison but if one day the spell should break, i'd love to come and see your seasons forget about your earthly cares, think of the time that lies before us just you and me, billions of years under exploding supernovas ***** my tales land heavily like spaceships, your eyelids flutter under cosmic dust keeping them closed, you say: "i had a daydream. in it, you were the only one that i could trust"

[@ro4eva]

The fact that your poem honestly made me tear up at one point speaks volumes for what a beautiful work of art, it is. Seriously. I say that as someone who has never really liked poems. But this one was an exception. Thank you for sharing it. Cheers =)

[@bacardichasers]

@@ro4eva thank you, you're too kind

[@numberpirate]

Sumer civilization pronounced Sue-Mer, not like the season summer.