James Webb Telescope Discovers Signs of Life on K2-18b, 120 Lightyears Away... but there's a problem

[@skylastotts2318]

Must contact them, they could be saving 15% or more on car insurance

[@countryhippiechick4466]

😂😂😂

[@silverarrows95]

😂

[@malvinelpinnoy]

That's a shallow way of thinking since that's not even an important factor of human life on Earth. If anything, an out of space assistance in curing cancer, Alzheimer's and all dementia forms would be a more life-changing discovery.

[@kelvinmoses7777777]

ROFL 😂😂

[@vladdkristmanov3057]

Lol - thank you for that!

[@LincolnHawk87]

So how long before the United States starts sending them money ?

[@elainehafzalla6441]

😂😂😂😂

[@cristela75]

But 1st they will send them bombs

[@billkill6852]

Spread freedom across the galaxy they shall. 🚀

[@krisshaw9464]

Oh wait loan them cash loan you mean except they'll take the cash and never return are calls

[@alexm3551]

They’re probably more advanced that they don’t even have the use for money

[@moragosullivan2879]

It was a Professor from Cambridge University that discovered this!

[@billtev9846]

…and they never mention or cite him, it a shame.

[@goldwingerppg5953]

I think it because his work is still being studied and peered reviewed. There are more recent videos with the physicist.

[@RichardKuivila1947]

GOOD FOR HIM. . WHAT HAS HE DISCOVERED LATELY ?

[@pk-th1vh]

Bcoz he is Indian prof. Madhusudan 😊​@@billtev9846

[@Lightningkuriboh]

@@RichardKuivila1947lmao Wth dude

[@josgibbons6777]

Why do so many comments here complain K2-18b is too far to visit? We don't want to visit it, we want to study it, which we can already do.

[@pk-th1vh]

No study Wanna Visit 😂

[@chesterfieldthe3rd929]

Speak for yourself

[@Tattzz]

And if they’re more advanced than us… they’ve been studying us for years, scary thought lol

[@1chuck23]

The closest star is too far to visit

[@BudTezzy2345]

Of course we want to visit it! to Study and LIVE on it.

[@DinsDale-tx4br]

Distance doesn't matter. Just knowing that there is life out there will be sufficient to rock this planet of ours and its muddy thinking populous.

[@El...Presidente]

It ain’t gonna rock the flat earthers 😅

[@DinsDale-tx4br]

@@El...Presidente On an epic tangent ... it isn't going to rock those who currently derive their satisfaction in Physics from CMB data, even though it causes so much tension :-).

[@StarLightFilmProductions]

@@El...Presidentethose people will just deny deny deny. Cause oh apparently nasa lies or something

[@yneshAshanti]

Well yeah. Also the fact that whatever we pick up happened 120 lights years ago. That planet could probably not even be in existence right now

[@trulsbendiksen9990]

U misunderstand, what we see now happend 124 yrs ago only, so its probably much the same.

[@terrydaniels8460]

And yet we still can't discover intelligent life on Earth 😂

[@jamescarpenter479]

😂

[@jamescarpenter479]

Doesn't matter...still to far away, we will never be able to go there

[@Blueswedishbeauties]

Bingo❤

[@thestraightedgee]

And elon wants to spread his stupidity to mars 😂

[@basilmacmurray3730]

Nope. Just more Donny Trump, saying "this isn't too far away, I've traveled further," 'I would be a lot more intelligent". " I discovered it first". " Nobody can discover planets like I can". "I discovered Earth you know" "If there was a lot of intelligence there, they could tell you that did the intelligence test, and no one has ever done it as fast as I did" " The doctors told me I was the most intelligent of any one they seen".😁I

[@Maggieismydog]

Let’s also remember we are seeing the past….

[@BudTezzy2345]

only 126 years ( take 40-60 years) in the past. The lens of the of the JWT transcends some distance does it not??

[@sambothebold]

I thought it was 1 light year to one year

[@jameswalden3871]

1 light year = 100 years i believe ​@@sambothebold

[@nikikai2112]

@@sambothebolda light year measures distance, not time

[@matt-g-recovers]

​@@nikikai2112 correct but we are viewing light that took as many light years to reach us so essentially it is 1:1 of the past

[@cyrillawless]

It blows me away how they can observe these things from so far away.

[@davidkimbler4744]

But can't see the Liberals destroying the USA!

[@martinmi5]

My neighbor saw a ufo from his back yard

[@Iheartmybesties_2]

@@martinmi5😂

[@martinmi5]

@@Iheartmybesties_2 don’t laugh at me, that’s what he said 🤷‍♂️

[@mp6471]

Nothing compared to 13 bilion light years far away Galaxies which were born "shortly after" the Big Bang

[@Lonewanderer30]

'Only' 124 LY's from Earth. With our current technology it might as well be the far side of the Universe......

[@arifulhaq1199]

Doesn’t matter, we shouldn’t think like that we have to reach there physically now, if it’s habitable and we can send other intelligent species and with technology that lasts at least 2000 years. AI could be one of the answer. We shouldn’t think that 125 light years as an obstacle.

[@Lonewanderer30]

@@arifulhaq1199 Way to miss the point. To emphasize that point, with or current propulsion technology, it will take us over 2 million years to get there.....Yeah, not an 'obstacle' at all..... 🙄

[@Raul_Gajadhar]

JWST supposedly has a computer system designed in 1998, this thing JWST is a fuqin' fake.

[@Lonewanderer30]

@@Raul_Gajadhar You don’t need the latest tech for optics, and there’s a good reason older tech is used in space probes.

[@derrickcox7761]

There's a "far side"? In reference to where?

[@evanpenn1]

We're still in our infancy of investigating planets. I think when examining an "ocean world" in the future, finding no life will be a much more surprising and perplexing conclusion than finding life.

[@KatHidson]

Obviously there is other "life" elsewhere. Just not necessarily benevolent to us.

[@RedoFrieson]

Right just cause we need water doesn't mean other life forms do

[@sungjempongen8854]

Meanwhile K2 - 18b planet PEOPLE reporting C2 - Earth XYX might have enormous ocean.

[@RedoFrieson]

Lmao 😂😂😂😂

[@charanteja_]

The scientist who discovered this is Prof. Nikku Madhusudhan. (Spelled Ma-du-su-dan) from Cambridge University.

[@two-to-tango]

thank you!

[@Badgerstate]

Ah. Irish.

[@giossss5020]

Is interesting how the feeling of lonliness we share moves the desire to finding someone else.

[@relevantinformation6655]

I found it odd that Starbucks had already opened a store there… ☕️

[@RjBenjamin353]

And a Jalisco Mexican Resturant

[@shawaddara6592]

Also, a credit union.

[@kennethanderson2273]

Also a Burger King and a Walmart

[@RjBenjamin353]

I love it that everyone is adding businesses. 😂

[@miker2585]

Are the prices as expensive as here?

[@rthompson938]

It wasn't the James Webb telescope that discovered it 🤨 It was a British Astrophysist and then asked if the James Webb could take more pics to corroborate his findings.

[@ChrisWood-p8d]

The Iron Rain, Would be a pain.

[@samo1kralj]

when he said only 124 ly , dont know if I should cry or laugh

[@lonestarhog7407]

Kevin Costner is the Earth's expert on Waterworlds. Ask him. 🤔

[@kinostorageua]

Lol 😂

[@Slurgical_3D_Terrain_Channel]

lol thank you, you made my day.

[@cliftongaither6642]

😂😂

[@sambothebold]

True comment

[@earthtourist-99]

Re: WASP-76b does it mean over time the sun facing side of the planet get depleted of iron as it rains and solidifies on the dark side? If so would there be mountains of pure iron there?

[@mbt2310]

Yes😅

[@qbanz00]

We’ve discovered the planet where aliens come visit us from 😂 .. we only see 120ly back though so they’re probably way more advanced now

[@ryp1562]

We see the light from 120ly ago. You don’t just look at earth from that distance and see dinosaurs then zoom in a bit more and see the cavemen then a bit more and see us now. That isn’t how it works even with a basic understanding, or common sense.

[@Raul-q3n]

The Cosmos is so glorious and mysterious that we should and need to evolve as our thoughts and will helps us to come together as a specie's among all species it's up to us . Destructive or development.

[@KatHidson]

Given the human species is hypocritical and excessively knows the way violence and is inherently "evil" at heart. I don't think trying escaping this world traveling in darkness forever is the solution.

[@djsarg7451]

No. K2-18 b is a super Earth exoplanet that orbits an M-type star. Its mass is 8.92 Earths, it takes 32.9 days to complete one orbit of its star, and is 0.1429 AU. Its star is highly unstable. K2-18 b is too close to the star. At mass 8.92 x Earths this is more like a Hot Jupiter. Neptune is four times the diameter of Earth and 17 times the mass. So no.

[@DJ-tt7tq]

I wonder if there will be a new telescope developed to look more closely at an exoplanet, possibly to detect what kind of surface it has.

[@BaldurGunnarsson]

It's under construction right now; ELT (Extremely Large Telescope) on a mountaintop in Chile. First light planned aproximately 2028.

[@DJ-tt7tq]

Many thanks. Looking forward to seeing that in operation.

[@EdwardThatch-ee7yx]

Professor Nikku Madhusudhan is the person that discovered the possiblity of life on K2-18b. He is British and works at Cambrigde university England.

[@The0ne357]

He is Indian and a Hindu(Sanatani)😅

[@EdwardThatch-ee7yx]

@@The0ne357 A British citizen is either: a British citizen 'otherwise than by descent' (meaning they acquired citizenship in their own right such as through naturalisation or birth in the UK), or a British citizen 'by descent' (meaning their eligibility for citizenship derives from their ancestors' nationality status) Professor Nikku Madhusudhan is a British citizen as he acquired his citizenship via naturalisation & Hinduism is his religion not his nationality.

[@The0ne357]

@@EdwardThatch-ee7yx even if he has acquired british citizenship that doesn't take away his indian identity and roots. We Indians always remain connected to our root, Citizenship can be changed as circumstances demand but roots never change they form the identity. His Indianness never leaves him.

[@EdwardThatch-ee7yx]

@@The0ne357 I understand that. I myself am of Indo/Mauritian heritage but I’m British because I was born in Britain. My parents are British too but they weren’t born in the U.K. This doesn’t mean we aren’t of Indo/Mauritian heritage but it does mean we are not Indian or Mauritian citizens but of British citizenship. And religion has NOTHING to do with anything!

[@The0ne357]

@@EdwardThatch-ee7yx Then why emphasize his citizenship that 'He is British'? Was it your insecurity about the identity of an achiever even though he is working in UK that others may claim credit of his achievements by emphasizing his belongingness and identity.

[@kevinansley7353]

Why the aliens won't come here, they are watching us from home.

[@ElloWabbit]

They won’t come because they didn’t detect intelligent life 😫

[@l.o.2005]

Streaming this planet and all that goes with it is enough to....

[@alexandergreen5292]

Or they probably have the same or similar tech level as us and can't fly there

[@Wolf-fighter]

if anyone would know about the woke shit here theyd straight up avoid this shithole

[@gamingmadster]

Would you want to contact us? To them, we would be hostile aliens. Look what we do to each other.

[@innertubez]

Meanwhile, on K2-18b, one life-form perks up, looks around, and tells his buddy, "Hey. I think someone is watching us."

[@Snoiks]

Aside from the distance, the universe is expanding, so 124 LY now becomes more later! But we can't travel at the speed of light so its 1000's of years!! Everything is unreachable though.

[@relevantinformation6655]

I tried Uber, they don’t go there either. So…

[@joecausey8508]

@@relevantinformation6655 🤣🤣How about Lyft? 🤣🤣

[@margarita8442]

2.2 million years with current tech

[@LiberTeaBag]

We need to travel fast imagine have a spaceship travelling 1Light speed per Min

[@sambothebold]

@@margarita8442”current” tech. Soon quantum physics/quantum AI, robotics and some form of warp travel will get us there in time for quick pint before the local pub closes

[@WOTM8]

What if we actually are the alien....?

[@cthulhu4411]

We would be to another planets species if we went to their world we would ge the aliens and they would be aliens too us alien means foreigner weather that be earthen or extraterrestrial

[@vamama100]

😂😂😂😂😂 Wake up.... We came from some other species.. Don't matter if we call ourselves humanoids.. We don't know 50% of our own anathomy... Really hard to conclude right!

[@coreenjordaan6294]

You are on to something...not NASA!😊

[@qbanz00]

What if we are the aliens project .. what if they planted us here and did the same thing we’re doing now .. just hundreds of thousands of years ago 😂

[@Resinpro]

@@qbanz00 considering we know large amounts about our own human evolution, it kinda negates that concept entirely, lol. Unless you think aliens came and dropped micro organisms here, and hoping that in three billion years they somehow turned into an (unknowable) "us". 😋

[@tafajoulmohammadismaelzaam4708]

AND WE STILL DON'T KNOW AND HAVE THE TECHNOLOGIES TO INSPECT OUR OWN EARTH...

[@mrwolsy3696]

2.5x gravity, so the aliens will be short and muscle packed.

[@venommyotis1]

yeah when they come to earth the can jump like John Carter :)

[@LiberTeaBag]

They be so smol I be laughing and crushing them

[@yanicmb]

Why use the term infested?

[@YNW_QI]

Need to build space craft that doesn't require fuel

[@Pinonyan]

Reverse gravity spacecraft! OMG!

[@OffroadMXbohemia]

This all is proof of high seismic activity. There is a low probabilty of life. But dont loose the spirit for finally fiding it.

[@nonamenonameplease2586]

Kinda of curious if it’s the past out there couldn’t we view ourselves sending something super power years ago with reflection on earth or will we so much of the future?

[@martymartz3254]

There’s life and we’re never gonna meet them

[@arizonadreaming4183]

Heaven❤ha

[@kingstrap8159]

Where is BUZZ when you need him!? We need to brief Star Command on this!!

[@IgnoranceBegetsConfidence]

Looks like the firmament broke though. Hope the animals survived the flood.

[@KatHidson]

Just because it has possible life doesn't mean it's intelligent or meaningful.

[@dinkmartini3236]

"James Webb Telescope Discovers Signs of Life on K2-18b, 120 Lightyears Away... but there's a problem"--It's 120 light years away.

[@Babayagaom]

Dw we are planning to create powerful telescope in few years . We will be able to see the surface directly

[@user-gp3hv9fz2d]

Second model seems to fit better in the case of K2-18 b, at least under the logical thinking of gaseous planets to be the most common reality in what we know so far. When we invert the way we search, more promissing results will come. What I mean is this: Stop searching red dwarfs, it is totally pointless as space weather around them is full of UV and x-rays, their planets don't have magnetic fields because there is no dynamo effect, and as a result they are not protected even with the thickest atmospheres. K and G stars ONLY can give promises, and planets with radii smaller than 2 Earth radii.

[@qbanz00]

Well if they want to discover life they shouldn’t expect it to exist the way it exists on earth. It could exist just fine on a planet just as you described but in a way where we don’t understand

[@user-gp3hv9fz2d]

@@qbanz00 It's all about theory, at the time being. We need TONS of data, and as an amateur astronomer I would like to see them. And about the last phrase of your reply, science is science when you understand and questions get less and less. Otherwise it is not science., so I convert "could" to "should" and I remove "don't".

[@SkinPeeleR]

It absurd to say " only". In scale, if our sun was as big as a pingpong ball, earth would be about a meter away, smal as a grain of sand. Our closest neighbour, Alpha Centauri would be about 200km from that little pingpong ball.....

[@oscargluja426]

THE only and greatest gain would be that we're not alone. Mars will be our second home before this millennun is over 😊

[@theforbiddenone7173]

Baby ducky hug you :)

[@KatHidson]

The soil is poisonous, the atmosphere thin and it's pretty cold there. No thanks.

[@jasonconrad5772]

So how do you explain the methane on Titan then? After the Hubble lens fix a planet with oceans and lights was discovered. It had many large islands, instead of big continents, suggesting its' plate techtonics is more mature. It's close to Orion and was covered up shortly after a PBS special about Hubble. They already know about us btw.

[@treygibson6828]

The Covenant finally get to meet a Grunt.

[@CapoMasi]

Looks like that planet is going to need some Managed Democracy.

[@kwazipeters4698]

😂 freedom never sleeps

[@vladdkristmanov3057]

with the number of planets out there and the age of the universe surely there is a civilization that has advanced a measly ten thousand years beyond our available technologies; the chance is greater that we should have had obvious contact by them than not. The fact is, we are alone in the universe.

[@sillyworm]

Might as well be.Radiation and distance negates any chance.Then again....people believe in a " God".

[@Mr.E-gi5rq]

Maybe it's a better idea to look for planets that will be able to support life by the time we get to them.

[@davidbaxter4910]

INTERESTING.

[@davidbaxter4910]

ABSOLUTEMENT.

[@davidbaxter4910]

YEP.

[@cuzdapimp]

@@davidbaxter4910dude this is sick because if we find something that is human life or something then what if they are way smarter and they develop to be better and come to our planet

[@derrickcox7761]

So are farts

[@frankbraker]

How many years of more research, assuming all the evidence presents itself, are we from irrefutable evidence of life on another planet? Is JWST capable of providing that evidence in the next few years, or do we have to resort to other means of collecting it?

[@theeddorian]

Irrefutable evidence can only be obtained by visiting a planet and finding life, and that requires our being _able_ to recognize life when we find it. JWST and other instruments can acquire suggestive but not irrefutable evidence. Even landers can be problematic. Look at the argument over the Viking Lander experiments. It's still an open question whether life was found or not. The pro and con arguments are both good, but not definitive.

[@skidplate4150]

We should be able to get there within the next 1000 years !

[@Raul-q3n]

Can we stop the war mongering the hate towards other countries and unite and evolve as one plant one life which is what we really are.😮

[@alexandergreen5292]

Got it. i will begin photosynthesis tommorow

[@nonamenonameplease2586]

Probably screaming their heads off they notice we found them and anxious to evacuate the planet before we get to them.

[@desybaker3938]

Send me out there I’ll go tomorrow

[@davidnelson5533]

Shall we leave trying to make contact until we’ve developed I bit as a species?

[@chesterlouis8361]

Would somebody explain to me how JWST can zoom in on a planet 124 LYs away to get this info? Thanks.

[@Banana-sq1hl]

what we observe is what the planet look like 124 years ago

[@ryanreynolds7318]

Looks like a good place for a dollar general

[@Amatsuichi]

Only 124 lightyears :D With our current space technology, it would take approximately 2.25 billion years to travel 124 light years if we would be able to maintain constant speed without deceleration phases.

[@fivestarrussian]

And it is reason cuz people should stop wars and work toghether to discover new planets. I know im naive but its we need to save our population

[@micahrowe]

I always ask, what will the discovery of life elsewhere do to the religious beliefs on earth?

[@dannymack1196]

Yeah but when we look that far away we are essentially looking back in time

[@Jason-TheChad-Muska_circa1995]

I'd argue that we're not primarily or essentially or basically looking back in time but that we are Literally looking back in time.😂🤷

[@jaybenjamin4563]

Plot twist, there is life except due to non extinction it’s the dinosaurs from the show dinosaurs.

[@Lauren-gs7bn]

Legend has it there is already a dollar general there

[@dustinjohnson7191]

Do they have oil

[@Goodmorningmg]

I think life is malleable enough that life could evolve if conditions were different than ours. If it has a chance, my guess is that it’s probably happened in some capacity

[@vladdkristmanov3057]

this is a joke you guys. we dont even understand our own little neighborhood - we are constantly "shocked" or "surprised" everytime we learn about planets in our own solar system.

[@darnice1125]

No, it didn't find anything. Can't find signs of life in our own solar system.

[@oldfogey4679]

If it has intelligent life i dont think it would let us get close enough to discover that life!

[@GlennForcha]

Why don't we all get along and start exploring space like James t Kirk

[@Maxie-b3u]

RIGHT!,,

[@JohnHutchinson-bl7nj]

120 light years away.Current technology craft would take 1363 years to travel one light year! So if calcs are correct(thank you-Quora)its observation only-probably indefinitely.

[@brianwhite6600]

“Potential for life” and “signs of life” are NOT the same thing. Slow your roll, folks.

[@davidtrew1375]

Carbon dioxide is a linear triatomic molecule.

[@danielfinn3206]

Aliens are smarter than us they've already discovered life we're one step behind them lol

[@tombirney7276]

Why would different solar systems function EXACTLY like ours? A different periodic table due to sub-atomic rules unknown here on earth...

[@ristube3319]

Only 124 light years? NOT 124 Earth years!

[@Bitdog4U]

If we ever get proof of life out there, we will have to travel there. It's like a self full filling prophecy. The way the Star Trek communicator forced the creation of the flip phone. Dick Tracy and the apple watch.

[@JustReed]

Only 637 light years? That's 5,880,000,000,000 x 637 miles. (It would take me about 30 minutes to put in all the zeros.)

[@mrelmo5164]

Anyone saw devils rejects ? So the scene where dude says go looking for the dark one and he will appeaer well maybe its time us earth beings stopped trying to find life out there , we may all meet a horrible ending if we find a superior life form

[@GlennForcha]

We're not the only planet with life on it, The universe is way too big. Glenn Forcha

[@frankchapman9464]

You do know it's a water world...

[@dafinoiu1]

What ever it was...this was light years away...no one guarantees if this is still habbited.

[@relevantinformation6655]

THAT’S where I left my car keys…

[@jasonmcghee1266]

124 years since the light left is not much time. We have had life here for eons.

[@cruise_missile8387]

I bet THEY have universal Healthcare

[@serenablackroseheartlink]

Terminids?

[@MarcWesley-z5e]

If we think we are the only life anywhere in the universe then we think way to highly of ourselves. And only 120 light years? That's a very long way. With the expansion of the universe we could never get there anyway.

[@MsMerryland]

Whether there is life or not is still to be determined.

[@NkPandey-z9e]

Wow so nice planet

[@CuSTACKS]

Amazing

[@RobertMiner-cn6mb]

If we could reach speed of light means 12 years while life on earth would be greatly changed.

[@-bigfoot-5002]

if it vaporizes everything then why doesn't it vaporizer the whole planet and is gravity holding everything togeather???

[@keithcook3908]

To far away even if something is there so what what about our solar system

[@PeedyJ]

Excess methane is easily explained by their planetary form of communication: farting & tap dancing, my friend, farting & tap dancing.

[@jw32450]

We will never be able to travel to a planet 124 ly away. It would take humans hundreds of millions of years to travel there. Our nearest stat at 4.2 ly away is impossible to reach, at least for many thousands of years. At present, it would take humans 80,000 years to travel 4.2 lys. We need to preserve the health of our planet Earth.

[@ChrisWood-p8d]

For me it's a big No, I would not want to go, The Iron Rain, Would be a pain.

[@jasur32]

Imagine going there in 124 ly with the help of several generations and the last generation will die there after finding out the life actually doesn't exist.

[@abelardlindsey7579]

Methane can be of abiogenic origin.

[@rickledford2953]

if there is an abundance of methane. That might mean. There is a whole lot of farting going on. If you smell what I'm cooking!

[@monaco647]

SUBscribed !!!

[@bazzadebear8012]

Hog wash. 120LY away. So we are never going there.

[@Baruk1993]

So what if there’s life on other planet? We go there and destroy it just what we are doing here on earth? 👽👽👽👽👽👽👽

[@thomasstevenrothmbamd2384]

Wow!

[@tommymartin8758]

124 light years is 7.2895E+14 miles which is ALOT