1/2: #HOTELMARS: EXOPLANETS: 124 light years away, a Hycean Planet with a possible ocean. . Nikku (Madhu) Madhusudhan Professor of Astrophysics and Exoplanetary Science,
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🗓️ 11 July 2024
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1/2: #HOTELMARS: EXOPLANETS: 124 light years away, a Hycean Planet with a possible ocean. .
Nikku (Madhu) Madhusudhan
Professor of Astrophysics and Exoplanetary Science,
Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge
Homepage: http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~nmadhu
David Livingston:, SpaceShow,com
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| 0:00.0 | Ah, she's brilliant. Miss, I finally got plans out the group chat. We get it. Four votes for a festival, |
| 0:05.9 | three for a city break. It's hard to adhere to everyone's needs. There's Betty with her oversized |
| 0:10.2 | tent. Sarah and her six foot eight boyfriend. |
| 0:13.1 | All right. |
| 0:14.0 | Roger Junior and his dog, Roger Senior. |
| 0:16.8 | And don't get us started on Mel. |
| 0:19.4 | But, like a marriage counselor, she's the one keeping things together. |
| 0:22.6 | All aboard Miss I finally got plans out the group chat. Keep everyone's plans alive when you |
| 0:27.1 | travel with us. P, and O'Ferees, there is another way. This is CBS, I on the world, Hotel Mars, episode N. I'm John Bachelor, David Livingston, my |
| 0:42.1 | colleague and co-host and co-pilot, and we're headed 124 light years out. |
| 0:48.0 | Thanks to Nikku Madudasan, a professor of astrophysics and exoplanetary science, the Institute of |
| 0:55.8 | Astronomy at the University of Cambridge. |
| 0:58.6 | And I read from the press release at the end of 2023 for the accomplishment of the professor and his team. |
| 1:06.4 | An international team of astronomers led by the University of Cambridge as used data from the |
| 1:11.2 | James Webb Space Telescope to discover methane and carbon dioxide in the |
| 1:16.1 | atmosphere of K-2-18B, an exoplanet in the Goldiloc Zone. This is the first time that carbon-based molecules have been |
| 1:26.2 | discovered in the atmosphere of an exoplanet in the habitable zone. Professor, welcome, |
| 1:31.9 | congratulations. |
| 1:33.8 | Some definitions first. |
| 1:35.9 | The search for life includes looking for a planet Earth, something like the Garden of Eden, about Earth's size, rocky and wet in the |
| 1:46.6 | habitable zone. However, as I understand it, you working, people working with exoplanets are now expanding their search to see much larger planets, |
| 1:58.6 | even planets that are more gas or as much gas as rock, still looking for life, however, changing the dimensions, |
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