2/2: #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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2/2: #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
2007 Hubble Space telescope
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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. I'm John Bachelor. This is Hotel Mars episode N with David Livingston, my colleague |
| 0:39.1 | and co-host and co-pilot, and we're at 124 light years out. Thanks to Professor Nikku Marisudan of the |
| 0:47.1 | University of Cambridge, the Institute of Astronomy, he and his colleagues are working |
| 0:51.4 | with a planet called K-2-18b, which has an atmosphere that is highly |
| 0:56.0 | suggestive. |
| 0:57.0 | Professor, you have an unlimited budget, as much time as you want on the James Webb as anybody could |
| 1:02.4 | possibly do given that you have to sleep. What do you want to see one on the James Web as anybody could possibly do given that you have to sleep. |
| 1:04.7 | What do you want to do next? |
| 1:05.7 | Well, John, thanks a lot for the budget. |
| 1:11.2 | I would, I mean, first of all, there are two levels to that first is giving unlimited time on the |
| 1:17.0 | James Webb Space Telescope itself which which is very much feasible you know the |
| 1:21.0 | telescope is their operational it's's a decision one has to make, the community has to make. But if we do allow for unlimited time, what I would do is survey planets that are within the right temperature, you know, |
| 1:36.2 | plus or minus a few tens of degrees, nearby, near to the solar system system let's say the nearest 30 or 40 |
| 1:46.8 | parsecs which would be like order 120 is light years take all the |
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