b and c are probably far too hot to be able to sustain surface liquid water. the habitable zone come is also sometimes called the goldilocks zone is right about here. and e really sits right in this region where surface liquid water could potentially exist, which is what we think we need for life. i can actually show you this in a travel poster. and so here here you can actually see what you would be seeing if you were sitting on the surface of trappist 1e. how do you mean a travel poster? what is this? so this is an artist s drerning of trappist 1e. it says voted best hab zone vacation within 12 par secs of earth. below it does it destroy it?
detected this way. they range from smaller than earth size to jupiter size. so eileen showed me this yesterday. look how long it is, too. we re hoping to find and identify the pool of transiting planets in the habitable zones of stars. not too hot and not too cold but just right for life. the goldilocks zone. one system that had two viable planet candidates that were very exciting. yeah. you want to study these candidates with the james webb space telescope. yes. actually, the question often comes up, how much time are we going to get for exoplanets. you know, if we find a rocky planet with a thin atmosphere in the habitable zone of an m star, do you have any idea how much telescope time we ll need to look at that atmosphere? let s kill it. given that our own atmosphere contains thousands of gases, we expect alien atmospheres to also contain thousands of gases. and my job is to figure out how
and small, warm-blooded animals evolved to us, but that was an accident. how many accidents need to happen for intelligence life to form. we don t know because we only have us, the one example. it might only be one part that life emerged, so we could actually be alone. you know, i had all of these accomplishments, i became a professor, and then i got married, i had the perfect husband, the perfect kids, and the perfect house. i had everything. and i had such a great life, and then my husband got sick, and he died. and so after that, what do you do? what do you do next? like you can t return to your every day existence and just like, cook dinner, which i never did, and still don t. another thing you can relate to, i just can t explain it but the every day things you do, they re
happens. this telescope has been a long time in the making, and it s launching december 18th. we re about to see things and discover things that we can only imagine today. so being able to see, for instance, the very first stars in the universe, the very first galaxies in the universe, we ve never seen these things. these are things that will be revealed by this telescope. being able to look at exo planets and find out if there are signs of water on those planets. as far as we know water is necessary for life. is there water out there? these are things we re going to be able to discover. so really being able to answer beginning to answer some of the greatest questions that have haunted us since the beginning of time. where do we come from? how did the universe begin? are we alone? these are questions that we re actually technically capable of being able to answer at this time. i find this so fascinating. nath
pioneers, and it would be what s a nice girl like you doing in a place like this sort of questions. it was really hard. do you think there is life out there? you know, nathaniel, whatever i think about life beyond earth doesn t matter a bit. for a millennia we asked priests and philosophers we thought were wise on what we should believe. now we can change that into the verb to explore. everything else is religion. and we re not doing religion here. we re doing science. the film s director joins me now. this is a truly remarkable mission. tell us more about why you wanted to document it in this film. well, this is the largest science mission that nasa has ever undertaken. so being able to document that as a filmmaker is pretty thrilling. and also to realize that this is 10,000 people have worked on this project. it s taken almost 20 years.