NASA's Kepler Finds Its First "Goldilocks" Candidates

[MrJonkelp]

brilliant video

[xtremetom180]

interesting video and very informative

[chrispikeyp]

really informative and interesting

[TheArasw89]

Nasa.....liers..

[FieryLeo13]

If we can see them, they can see us! Just wait until the James Webb telescope goes up, remember the deep field that Hubble brought us? That is gonna seem like grans of sand!

[NobDickBalls]

other earth like planets bollocks!

[Gandalf2605]

@NobDickBalls stfu neanderthal humanoid....

[Gandalf2605]

i believe in the next 3-5 years....kepler telscope ll find over 10.000 new planets....

and that ll be the point where we ll find a few earth-like planet in the "habitable zone" for sure....

it is sad that JW satt or Terrestrial Planet Finder were cancelled...both would definitely rock for searching planets...

what really matter is that these planets can be found closer than 50ly so in the near future we can send some fast probs or even a colonial space mission.....around 2100 if not earlier

[Gandalf2605]

@NobDickBalls wich mental institution u escaped from??

[NobDickBalls]

@Gandalf2605 not from this one arse hole! Nasa wants burning its evil! we need to send missionaries to these planets or slaughter the vermin,that is the good aspect to this project.....then again god would not allow such vile things to exist,theres no such thing as another earth like planet twats! god gave us one you greedy,ungrateful fools! kepler is evil! how dare it search for another earth! waste of fucking time like SETI! makes me ashamed to be a human,aliens will be thick as pig shit!

[Gandalf2605]

@Gandalf2605 then why do u use science aplicatons like this one here... youtube?

or why do u use cellphones...or cars...or consume electricity..or whatever made by science ....these things are evil....cause science made them up.

so stop wasting your time with evil things...and go live on a mountain...like monks...or else u r a stupid hypocrite

stars is our to take.. sit tide and watch us do it

i ll make a timemachine and go kill jesus and the pope..so u and your perception can never exist >)

[NobDickBalls]

@Gandalf2605 "i'll make a time machine and go kill jesus and the pope" how dare you,you fucking bastard! how about i go to your house and knock your fucking teeth out?! man will not go to the stars ever ass! god will be angered by this you daft toad! traveling to the stars is make believe it will stay like that too you fools! the human race will be burning in hell before we get chance to sin all our lives in gods universe! Nasa is evil! how dare they stick their noses where its not wanted!

[ikkangeen]

@NobDickBalls i thank GOD that people like you do not have much responsebility in life. And @Gandalf2605 don't disrespect jesus fucker, you have absolutely no idea.

srry for my english it's not my primary language

[NobDickBalls]

FUCKING LIARS!!!!! God would never create such pompus twats WALKING AROUND ON SOME SATAN PLANET!!! these shits don't exist if they do we all should send them missionaries there!!!! if they refuse or are evil looking we will destroy them all!!!! makes me sick thought of these pompus twats walking around on some vile planet! This telescope needs burning its evil!!! YOU HAVE NO RIGHT STICKING YOUR NOSES WHERE ITS NOT WANTED! YOU WILL NEVER FIND ANOTHER EARTH! GOD IS ANGRY YOU MAKE HIM SICK!!!!!!

[klm4298]

@NobDickBalls Haha

[hazzamo]

@NobDickBalls lol

[ryanscottweise]

@NobDickBalls Wowwwww buddy you need to a take a fucking chill pill and realize that you're ways of thinking are old and there's nothing you can do to stop it . :) . We're on our way to the stars and leave you're extremist views behind . In our dust . And noone really cares if God is angry because he can go lick balls for all I care . And mmmm yea we will . Maybe not like earth but we'll find new life one way or another . :) . So go have a time out you fuck .

[NobDickBalls]

@ryanscottweise You nobhead! we will never find no fucking planet full pompus twats sinning! don't make me laugh twat! "we're on our way to the stars" BOLLOCKS no chance in hell! and by the way these stars you speak of they're gods watching over us we sicken them! we will see them when we die..then again you pompus science shites will be sent to hell! Theres only one sun,one Earth and that is here you ungrateful pompus pieces of nobshite.Why the hell seti listening to these so called planets!

[rockhannnah]

wow...

[exxalte]

the woman made me almost stop listening... If you thoght a man cant talk she was a like a anouncer pro but killed the show because shes doewnt add anthing but only has a halluleha talk

[Borgninho]

What an indictment of our collective curiosity that such news draws merely a handful of journalists as the Trumps and Lohans suck in hordes.

[Borgninho]

Dr. Lissauer: quite the fruity presentation style. Interesting stuff all.

[kamranstein]

Good work by NASA and modern scientific community. I love NASA since my childhood. But I always wonder how we as humans dwell peacefully & treat all those earth like planets like we did to this earth? If we are having history full of racism, religious hatred based wars for keeping apocalyptic pseudo-philosophies alive through generations and over. So what is the point to spread human life in other planets whose morality is all time questionable........due to its very own NATURE ..

[Skepticktok]

Exoplanet hunters and SETI folks are great. Unlike much of humanity that thinks in days or weeks or years. They think in decades and centuries.

We need to prepare for the future as a race.

[YoungClyde420]

this is bs, theyve known about these planets for along time, they are already there! why do you think nasa is now privatized? do the math people, these sick people are going to exploit our universe. they have destroyed the earth and the are going for more. its common sense

[JamesDee89]

i could watch this 100x

[carolyninglasgow]

I want to thank the Kepler team for the amazing data they released at Planet Hunters org. Even to be able to discover a candidate, observing the field around the star is extraordinary!

It is clear this amazing work does not aim at an immediate result, it does not expect that the advanced ideas will be readily taken up.
This work is like that of the planter - for the future. The duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.
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[fransinhooo]

Im think Sarah Jessica Parker Planet is far then those ones...;)

[desertsun02]

There is a 100% chance that there is life elsewhere. It's really just a matter of finding it. The 1235 possible planets were discovered by only looking at 1/400th of the sky. multiplied out, that is over 400,000 planets (plus remember that the larger planets most certainly have dozens of moons like jupiter and saturn do). Also, the new planets generally orbit their star quickly (as those are much quicker to find and confirm). The total number is probably 4 million planets plus moons.

[SymphonicMM]

So long, God :)

[YoungClyde420]

@SymphonicMM god is the scientific energy we all came from. we must honor the natural energy that flows throughout the universe- aka "god"

[skarpzor]

8700 views. This should have 6 billion views.

[Toasterpuppet]

Los Angeles early seventys was a quake bigger then six....pretty sure lots of others around the world in the 70-93 time frame but I lived thru that one. Oh and a six something in the eightys in Humboldt county that brought down an overpass....felt that one too. I suppose though im the idiot for even reading something a religeous nut posted as it is almost always nonsense.

[jasper7750]

@ Indaname7777777

It´s called plate tectonics not rapture you moron. You can find a god just as you can find lepricons. Throw logical critical thinking out of the door and just start with wishfull thinking. You can keep your angry god and his amoral stoneage book, I will enjoy the beauty of the phisical world.

[Iztok1967]

I like thise video. Keep the good work guys.

[BoxRoomStudio]

and to think that these were all found using the transit method, which gives a 0.47% detection rate for a planet at an earthlike distance from a star. and even with planets with very small orbits, only gives us a 10% chance of detection. Planets truly are unbelievably numerous.

[Domzdream]

hahaha. Suddenly all the religious folks are scrambling to their books.

It-th god. Yeth. Yeth, it-th definitely jee-thuth. He'th coming back the thecond time.

[ineedaname7777777]

there where no 5.0 earth quakes from 1970-1993 and in the last year there was over 42 6.0-8.0 earth quakes, and one yesterday! in Papua new Genua , The 7 years is upon us,there are NO ALIENS, only demons who will fool you into thinking they killed 1/3 of us instead of what actually happens , we are raptured!

[ineedaname7777777]

Wont ever find God in a hate video! or beating off , or playing video games, or shopping, or going to school, YOU have to study all knowledge and find it yourself, no one will do it for you!

[AndreisEntaro]

I'm seeing this for the first time today. This should have been the biggest news of the month.

This is why I don't watch the news on tv anymore.

However, we need a lot more publicity for Nasa as well as more attention getting productions from them.

I go looking for this stuff and it took me a week to find it by accident. Most people will never see this or be excited by the news. That fact, makes me sad.

[krapptacular]

Kind of wish Carl Sagan was here to see this

[skaterraiter]

Kodac invented the mega pixle we could of done this years ago when that came out ether way, yes it will be great to find out if theres other life on other planets and mabey go to them but this is closest one we think and its over 500,000 light years away if anything this will mabey never hapen and defently not happen in next 100 years but realy i think we should start puting every bit of are efforts into thing of a good salution of jobs and fun and family and trees and rivers and more..........

[skaterraiter]

so ok but we figured out that intell we make some machine that can travel far far away to other planets then wtf are we going to stair at this solor system for endstead of do something like that other then wtf are all the UFO's doing here anyways beening seen every day and we dont try to figure that out instead? like this just seems so stupid nasa! years of a stupid movie of whats out there but nothing geting done.I know why dont you guys use your telescopes to record the serial number of a UFO

[mister18cm]

They don't mention that due to alignment geometry Kepler has only 0.3% (-1/300) chance of detecting an earth size planet at 1 a.u. This means for every eart sized planet in the habital zone that Kepler will eventually detect over the next 3 years needs to be multiplied by more than 300. Next to do is ESA's Darwin mission and NASA's terristrial planet finder. Target's detected by Kepler can be scanned using spectromity to determine athmospheric composition.

[Miiaku]

Dang, I want them to come out with a Kepler @ Home. I am totally up for using my Gaming PC to crunch numbers for exo-planet research. :D

[MrC0MPUT3R]

@Miiaku Haha! I just tried to look up something like kepler@home. I would love to be a part of that. I'm sure something will be created for it though.

[Miiaku]

Dang, I want then to come out with a Kepler @ Home. I am totally up for using my Gaming PC to crunch numbers for exo-planet research. :D

[Davisdude102]

i want that mug lol

[lovestar261]

thanks for sharing friend..much love

[cristianfcao]

I think I'm a happier human being after seeing this.

[trile666]

I can't wait to hear news about "new Earth" :D

[AdamBMorris]

TRENT

[fernandoiscrazy]

Who cares about discovering other planets when we don't have the technology to travel there? Why doesn't NASA just tell the MASSES what it REALLY wants to hear. That the dark side of the Moon has buildings/towers/UFOs. Enough of the Hollywood Blockbuster Alien Invasion Propaganda NASA just SHOW US THE PICTURES OF THE ALIEN BASES!

[Mallaclllypse]

@fernandoiscrazy lol i laughed really hard at that one. You should take off your tin foil hat from time to time. It might help...

[pumpkinhead1977]

Thank u so much everyone involved in the Kepler project. This is fantastic and very exciting news. This is just one small step for Kepler and an enormous leap for mankind! One day we might just visit these planets. Astronomy never fails to excite us. Where would we be without water and where could we go without NASA? Thank you.

[voicubogdan84]

FANTASTIC! :))

[AleximusMaximus]

This is *really* awesome, but the third speaker is unbearably annoying to listen to :-/

[gammaphoton]

It is too bad Carl Sagan did not live to see all of this happening.

[kevmartin79]

a year on Jupiter is almost 12 earth years!, it is now unimaginable how many actual planets are out there considering over 1200 candidates found in this small patch of space in just 8 earth months. Also these 1200 candidates are just the rare transiting planets in almost exact alignment to our field of view. It blows my mind.

[T0B0KKE]

@kevmartin79 I read somewhere that because the fact that the exoplanets orbit has to be in almost exact alignment only yields 0,6% of the stars that have planets. So instead of 1200 candidates, we could have 100/0.6*1200 = 200k candidates. oh my goodness this is sooo thrilling, since Cassini-Huygens I haven't been so excited about a NASA mission.

[sniper71267]

Remember how NASA made a video in Nov. saying there is no object coming towards Earth. Then Dec 10 Russia announced that Comet Elenin was coming towards Earth. Now I wonder why NASA was not doing a video on that instead of something that means nothing to the people. Hell half of you don’t even know a comet is coming towards Earth right as we speak and NASA says nothing. They can tell the mass of these distance planets but not Comet Elenin which is close to Earth now too funny.

[EnterSkitarii]

@sniper71267 um...maybe because it's not actually going to hit Earth? Closest estimates put it at about 0.3 AU from earth at its closest approach

[sdrawkcabgnipytmi]

@sniper71267

Elenin isn't expected to hit the Earth so that also means nothing to most people.

This discovery is FAR more exciting than some dirty snowball that's going to come close to us next September.

[Saukko31]

Very exciting findings, great video.

[TheVoyagerFan]

Definitely worth watching. Thanks for posting!

[banana1337kivi]

awesome!

[UfoYes2]

Great messages. Thanks.

[THE16THPHANTOM]

love that they speak English at NASA

[Sacto1654]

The success of Kepler is why we should join up with every other space agency around the world and build the Terrestrial Planet Finder (TPF) series of satellites, which would use ultra-powerful space telescopes to find Earth-like planets around stars within 100 light years of Earth.

[RayDandy]

@Sacto1654 agreed ! , the problem is the Terrestrial Planet Finder is too costly right now, NASA can't afford it,

maybe sometime in 2020-2030.

[Tounushi]

thus far about 0.8% of the observed stars have candidate planets.... And since there are billions of stars in the galaxy, there's a high chance for a vast multitude of planets. And if 54 planet candidates are in the habitable zone, this would average at 4.3% of planets being potentially habitable... This would go into ~0.03% of observed stars having potentially habitable planets. The galaxy has up to 400 billion stars, so there might be 139 million potentially habitable worlds... A W E S O M E

[XRaDiiX]

@Tounushi what you seem to miss out on in your calculation is that the transit plane of each solarsystem only has a 0.67% chance of being seen from our viewpoint by the kepler telescope..... so if this data is correct almost 80%+ of all stars(solar systems) will have planets your data is incredibly incorrect and misleading refer to wiki for more about kepler.

[XRaDiiX]

@Tounushi Think about 150,000 stars already 1200 planets found in the first 4 months of DATA and only 0.6% of stars planets orbit so we can see their transit via kepler

[ablanco1910]

Great video! Thanks guys.



[uwira23]

So, Dr. Sasselov was actually right!!!

[korzen321]

New era of space knowledge's just begun :)!

[austpom333]

Maybe we can never travel to a future discovered earth like planet with life - but we could observe it, like Google earth ( two or three thousand year old light or not )

[darkskyva1234]

Kepler is great! can't wait for James Webb. with both of these satellite we might find something they may shock us

[teenee4]

Is this how they will let the public know that there are others like us.... slowly bleed the fact that we aren't alone?

[OTmikhail]

54 Planet Candidates in the habitable zone in a patch of sky only 1/400th of the entire field of view we have!!! How amazing the future will be. Alien life is around the corner, in the cosmic sense anyway.

[robkim55]

This is brilliant

[Frogzisdabitch]

I cannot wait to see how far we've gotten in Space research by 2060.... Just imagine it, Right not we have 54 candidates. In 2060 we'd probably have over 400. I cannot wait for the future. Right now it is fascinating. In the future it will be remarkable.

[jab0805]

Great work. This is the science that will probably one day save the human species from extinction.

[CaNaDiiAnBaCoN]

@jab0805 The part that sucks is that they're too far away for us to ever get to them. Voyager 1 launched around 40 years ago and has gone 16 hours of light speed. So compared to a light year, we are nowhere near that.

[jab0805]

@CaNaDiiAnBaCoN We have to think in generations... We have the time to do this. Not in our lifetime. Not in our children's lifetime, nor their childrens lifetime... Probably 10 or more generations.

[hanspanzer]

@jab0805

It won't take that long...If we don't make terrible mistakes (e.g. WW3) ... i promise ;)

[masterdelrap]

@jab0805 yeah right with this corrupt goverment i see our extinction even closer

[kelvyfajardo]

@jab0805 it probably already saved the human specie ones.

[dragonamt]

THIS IS FANTASTIC! Save this to favorites and like this so we can spread the word. This is probably going to be the biggest discovery of the year if not the decade! People should be freaking ecstatic! FYI NASA I am an aspiring astrobiologist studying biology in college. XD

[galaxy387]

Always "expect the unexpected" from Nature

[laurence265]

yeah I agree I think james webb and some of the other giant land based telescopes being built are really going to open peoples eyes on some things. why do things have to take so long. finish them and threw them up there lol.

[MoeMH1212]

they found over 1200 new planets...pretty cool, but wait until the James Webb satellite comes out

[bboschboi]

@MoeMH1212 Remember Kepler is purpose built for planet hunting. I don't think JWST will increase the number of exoplanet discoveries, but it may help confirmation of these discoveries.

[cristianfcao]

@MoeMH1212 AFAIK, the JWST is not made for discovering planets. Maybe it can be used to confirm some of these candidates, but I don't think it'll discover planets at the rate of the Kepler... not nearly so.

[Akshayk7]

@MoeMH1212 launch is in 2013 or 2014?

[MoeMH1212]

@Akshayk7 oh wow i dont remember either :x just go to nasa.org and search it up

[NeoKailthas]

@MoeMH1212 i'm sorry, but what does that do ?

[skaterraiter]

@NeoKailthas it means we can stare and imagine about other soloy systems and what we are but other then that nothing inltell we make a space craft that travles to other planets across light years, probly not in are life time so its pointless and they need to focus more on useing there teloscopes to take pictures of serial numbers on UFO's instead of stare at a solar system impossible to get to

the only thing interesting here is the people who made the technoligi for the telescope not nasa

[kablamo9999]

@MoeMH1212 Since Kepler is looking at more than 100,000 stars, I expect it to find maybe tens of thousands of planets after a few years.

[zzzIdividedbyzerozzz]

Keep up the good work