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

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James Webb Telescope Discovers Signs of Life on K2-18b, 120 Lightyears Away... but there's a problem. A recent investigation conducted using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope on K2-18b, an exoplanet with a mass 8.6 times that of Earth, has uncovered the presence of carbon-based molecules, including methane and carbon dioxide.
This discovery made by Webb, contributes to recent studies that suggest K2-18b might be classified as a Hycean exoplanet, one potentially featuring a hydrogen-rich atmosphere, and a surface covered by a water ocean.
K2 18 b orbits a cool dwarf star called K2-18, located in the habitable zone and situated 120 light-years away from Earth in the Leo constellation.
The presence of methane and carbon dioxide, along with the scarcity of ammonia, lends support to the hypothesis that K2-18b, could potentially have a water ocean beneath a hydrogen-rich atmosphere.
The initial observations by Webb also hinted at the possibility of detecting a molecule, known as dimethyl sulphide. On Earth, DMS is only produced by living organisms, with the majority of it being emitted by phytoplankton in marine environments.
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@skylastotts2318 Ай бұрын

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

@countryhippiechick4466 Ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@silverarrows95 Ай бұрын

😂

@malvinelpinnoy Ай бұрын

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 29 күн бұрын

ROFL 😂😂

@vladdkristmanov3057 29 күн бұрын

Lol - thank you for that!

@LincolnHawk87 26 күн бұрын

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

@elainehafzalla6441 18 күн бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@cristela75 4 күн бұрын

But 1st they will send them bombs

@billkill6852 4 күн бұрын

Spread freedom across the galaxy they shall. 🚀

@moragosullivan2879 Ай бұрын

It was a Professor from Cambridge University that discovered this!

@billtev9846 29 күн бұрын

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

@goldwingerppg5953 29 күн бұрын

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

@RichardKuivila1947 25 күн бұрын

GOOD FOR HIM. . WHAT HAS HE DISCOVERED LATELY ?

@pk-th1vh 24 күн бұрын

Bcoz he is Indian prof. Madhusudan 😊@@billtev9846

@Lightningkuriboh 3 күн бұрын

@@RichardKuivila1947lmao Wth dude

@josgibbons6777 Ай бұрын

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 24 күн бұрын

No study Wanna Visit 😂

@chesterfieldthe3rd929 24 күн бұрын

Speak for yourself

@Tattzz 10 күн бұрын

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

@charanteja_ 27 күн бұрын

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

@two-to-tango 26 күн бұрын

thank you!

@Maggieismydog 29 күн бұрын

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

@DinsDale-tx4br Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

It ain’t gonna rock the flat earthers 😅

@DinsDale-tx4br Ай бұрын

@@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 27 күн бұрын

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

@yneshAshanti 26 күн бұрын

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 26 күн бұрын

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

@sungjempongen8854 24 күн бұрын

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

@relevantinformation6655 Ай бұрын

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

@RjBenjamin353 29 күн бұрын

And a Jalisco Mexican Resturant

@shawaddara6592 29 күн бұрын

Also, a credit union.

@kennethanderson2273 28 күн бұрын

Also a Burger King and a Walmart

@RjBenjamin353 28 күн бұрын

I love it that everyone is adding businesses. 😂

@miker2585 15 күн бұрын

Are the prices as expensive as here?

@lonestarhog7407 Ай бұрын

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

@UniverseStalker666 Ай бұрын

Lol 😂

@Slurgical_3D_Terrain_Channel 28 күн бұрын

lol thank you, you made my day.

@terrydaniels8460 17 күн бұрын

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

@jamescarpenter479 4 күн бұрын

😂

@jamescarpenter479 4 күн бұрын

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

@giossss5020 Ай бұрын

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

@YNW_QI 17 күн бұрын

Need to build space craft that doesn't require fuel

@Lonewanderer30 Ай бұрын

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

@arifulhaq1199 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

@@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 Ай бұрын

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

@Lonewanderer30 Ай бұрын

@@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 Ай бұрын

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

@tafajoulmohammadismaelzaam4708 16 күн бұрын

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

@qbanz00 Ай бұрын

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 29 күн бұрын

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.

@evanpenn1 Ай бұрын

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.

@cyrillawless 9 күн бұрын

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

@EdwardThatch-ee7yx Ай бұрын

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 25 күн бұрын

He is Indian and a Hindu(Sanatani)😅

@EdwardThatch-ee7yx 25 күн бұрын

@@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 25 күн бұрын

@@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 25 күн бұрын

@@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 25 күн бұрын

@@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 Ай бұрын

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

@YelloWabbit 28 күн бұрын

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

@rthompson938 28 күн бұрын

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.

@innertubez 5 күн бұрын

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

@kingstrap8159 24 күн бұрын

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

@IgnoranceBegetsConfidence 29 күн бұрын

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

@SkinPeeleR 24 күн бұрын

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.....

@WOTM8 Ай бұрын

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

@cthulhu4411 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂 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 Ай бұрын

You are on to something...not NASA!😊

@qbanz00 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

@@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". 😋

@Bitdog4U 6 күн бұрын

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.

@mrwolsy3696 29 күн бұрын

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

@venommyotis1 28 күн бұрын

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

@LiberTeaBag 25 күн бұрын

They be so smol I be laughing and crushing them

@CapoMasi 23 күн бұрын

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

@Snoiks Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@joecausey8508 29 күн бұрын

@@relevantinformation6655 🤣🤣How about Lyft? 🤣🤣

@margarita8442 25 күн бұрын

2.2 million years with current tech

@LiberTeaBag 25 күн бұрын

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

@user-ki8gw7vm9x 15 күн бұрын

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.

@MrKKmusic 7 күн бұрын

It’s a water world with life. I was there last year with my cousin (he forgot his flippers). It has breathtaking reefs filled with nothing but clownfish. Billions of them and not one named Nemo. Very strange place

@Amatsuichi 25 күн бұрын

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 13 күн бұрын

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

@frankchapman9464 23 күн бұрын

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

@MsMerryland 7 күн бұрын

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

@dinkmartini3236 Ай бұрын

"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 24 күн бұрын

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

@thomasstevenrothmbamd2384 27 күн бұрын

Wow!

@user-gp3hv9fz2d Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

@@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".

@vladdkristmanov3057 29 күн бұрын

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.

@mariotambay5114 Ай бұрын

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 Күн бұрын

Yes😅

@davidbaxter4910 Ай бұрын

INTERESTING.

@davidbaxter4910 Ай бұрын

ABSOLUTEMENT.

@davidbaxter4910 Ай бұрын

YEP.

@cuzdapimp Ай бұрын

@@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 Ай бұрын

So are farts

@oscargluja426 Ай бұрын

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

@theforbiddenone7173 29 күн бұрын

Baby ducky hug you :)

@jaybenjamin4563 17 күн бұрын

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

@ristube3319 10 күн бұрын

Only 124 light years? NOT 124 Earth years!

@markdjsonicfxalsop 2 күн бұрын

OH , THERE'S LIFE ON MILLIONS OF PLANETS ❤

@cruise_missile8387 Ай бұрын

I bet THEY have universal Healthcare

@TheLoverOfYourMother1 29 күн бұрын

I hope we undoubtedly discover life on another planet, it’s a nice thought that even when our planet is long gone, there’s other planets out there with intelligent life just doing its thing, as long as some place in existence has the potential for peace and happiness, I can die happy enough one day. We’re all just existing how we know to

@dannymack1196 26 күн бұрын

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

@Jason-TheChad-Muska_circa1995 22 күн бұрын

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.😂🤷

@micahrowe 12 күн бұрын

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

@dafinoiu1 Ай бұрын

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

@relevantinformation6655 Ай бұрын

THAT’S where I left my car keys…

@jasonmcghee1266 Ай бұрын

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

@-bigfoot-5002 17 күн бұрын

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

@mrelmo5164 29 күн бұрын

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

@monaco647 28 күн бұрын

SUBscribed !!!

@user-ki8gw7vm9x 15 күн бұрын

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.😮

@yanicmb 28 күн бұрын

Why use the term infested?

@frankbraker Ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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.

@jasur32 27 күн бұрын

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.

@alexanderhua5497 28 күн бұрын

It's like a snail 🐌 going around earth😂😂

@tombirney7276 28 күн бұрын

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

@serenablackroseheartlink Ай бұрын

Terminids?

@Wulphie7278 Ай бұрын

Forget about a huge discovery of life on other planets, let's do what's easiest lol. The search for life on other planets based on life on Earth, but I believe anything is possible in our mind boggling huge and bizarre universe.

@LTDANMAN44 Ай бұрын

I HOPE IM STILL ALIVE WHEN WE FIND LIFE ON ANOTHER PLANET

@djboogieboy 27 күн бұрын

Planet K21 is where the terminator is from!👽

@martymartz3254 29 күн бұрын

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

@alexanderhua5497 28 күн бұрын

We Need to initiate project " Stargate" 😂

@markgarin6355 Ай бұрын

But it's a red dwarf,... Of course the planet could have already fallen into their sun....

@litiviousspartus4611 24 күн бұрын

As "infested" as Earth?

@ndk4 26 күн бұрын

If they stare back at us they will look at year 1900

@dustinjohnson7191 26 күн бұрын

Do they have oil

@user-qg5dp4tl8c Ай бұрын

No sense in guessing. This where science leads the way to find out more definitively if it could support life. The science team researching this will provide more data later.

@oryjen Ай бұрын

Does anyone here realize what "124 LYs" means? 124 years travel at light speed... (what still remains muuuuch too long for any human purpose) Wait a minute: Are we able to travel at light speed? As would say that french buddy "ça nous fait une belle jambe!" Wouldn't we be smarter to try and solve our current and eternal problems (with those huge amounts of money we spill on such useless hobbies), like hunger, wars, earth systematic destruction and politic madness (all those subjects closely generated by each other)? Maybe then would something like a "stars key" appear in front of us...

@wooddogg8 Ай бұрын

at 0.45%, and falling, of US national budget, I think they're doing great work with a relatively low budget than years past. I think it's an incredible undertaking, and I even fall into the "food insecurity sector myself" GO NASA, ESA, JAXA and India, China, and others... Even those durn Russians, We need to know this stuff! Edit: I do appreciate your concern nonetheless. 😏😏✌✌

@brianwhite6600 29 күн бұрын

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

@ggraemeffrance5434 14 күн бұрын

It's a water world

@erdossuitcase7667 29 күн бұрын

Didn’t someone find dms in some comets?

@user-cs2en4wl4f 27 күн бұрын

Its life jim but not as we know it.

@keithcook3908 23 күн бұрын

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

@daniellevy4104 Ай бұрын

Well I think it’s krypton , that being said , here’s why It’s 9 times bigger than earth It spins much faster and is many times closer to its sun a red dwarf 1 year is 36 days Gravity is probably unbearable for a human

@lennyclay9099 27 күн бұрын

Who knows

@andrewgrady4296 28 күн бұрын

Get planet travel insurance....with Geico

@eltonshamblen9766 Ай бұрын

Public ignorance (self included) is profound.

@vladdkristmanov3057 29 күн бұрын

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.

@thesmallnotesduo 28 күн бұрын

I remember when science/news/etc was was not could be. SIGH.

@Baruk1993 22 күн бұрын

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

@rickledford2953 Ай бұрын

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!

@RoninX33 21 күн бұрын

This will be a letdown as usual.

@johnnyredfoot7403 9 күн бұрын

With tech we could be there in 8 too 12 year possibly faster with the right motivation . Lol the word ...

@stephenwright8257 29 күн бұрын

My ex wife is an alien…

@KeepitReal2772 22 күн бұрын

We literally just had the United States government confirmed that aliens not only exist but they have recovered crashed vehicles with aliens in them and these guys are still asking rather or not there is life on other planets🤦🏽.

@kipkipper-lg9vl 21 күн бұрын

if you believe that i got a bridge to sell you

@heathermichael3987 Ай бұрын

And then our bacteria killed them .

@extramilesbd 28 күн бұрын

I wonder what all the religious people will say after this discovery is confirmed 👍

@karamc6822 Ай бұрын

only 124 ly

@janetbangura1731 22 күн бұрын

so God never made anything that can live in fire 🔥hmmm

@l.a.beltranmusic4554 29 күн бұрын

only 124 light years away...lol.

@HBGarden31 27 күн бұрын

I am gonna shift there shortly,bag and baggage...ciao !

@WillardHewing 29 күн бұрын

All of this universe just to work and pay bills. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@OppoflxOppoflx-kg1bg 5 күн бұрын

The alien in planet k2 18b proxima centaur I have alien male handsome compare to our planet earth with growing sun

@derrickcox7761 Ай бұрын

Infested? Disgusting reference to living beings.

@johnfloyd1866 Ай бұрын

shut up derrick

@derrickcox7761 Ай бұрын

@@johnfloyd1866 when your mouth opens it's a fart.

@luisfernando5998 29 күн бұрын

@@derrickcox7761what about when Uranus opens?

@derrickcox7761 29 күн бұрын

@@luisfernando5998 that's a fart, too.

@JBliehall 26 күн бұрын

Hubble has been sending spectacular images from space for 30 years. ALMA in Chile for 10 years has taken spectacular images from here on Earth. The JW system is sending spectacular images from deep space. But let's be honest, we cannot safely get a 200 kg payload to the moon 200,000 miles from us. A light year is 5.8 TRILLION miles! These images came from 120 light-years distant. I admit all 3 systems are impressive. But please explain to me what good they are in helping solve problems we have here, 0 light-years away. Being entertained and having that "My God that's impressive" feeling come over you is great. But how are these billions of dollars spent on these systems, in the end helping mankind? And before you start listing all the engineering achievements that were part and parcel to the space program, do some research. The greatest advancements in science and technology came from (unfortunately) the military, medical systems and the private sector.