Is There Life Beyond Earth's Solar System

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  1. is there life beyond earth the solar system.
  2. The spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, What does it consist of?
  3. The electromagnetic radiation spectrum consist of radiation microwaves, infrared visible
  4. ultraviolet, X ray and gamma ray radiation, microwaves and infrared
  5. radiation are things like radio stations, things like our phones,
  6. tV and any kind of radio waves that can go
  7. through humans buildings and that that aren't harmful.
  8. Radio waves are also emitted by stars and gases in
  9. space. Microwaves, microwaves are things like like a microwave that
  10. heat up, that heats up your food or to cook
  11. your popcorn, but it's also used by astronomers to learn
  12. about the structure of nearby Galaxies.
  13. Infrared infrared are things like night vision goggles that pick
  14. up the infrared light that is emitted from your skin
  15. and objects with heat in french also helps map the
  16. dust. What is meant by the dust is irregularly shaped
  17. grains of carbon or silicate, measuring a fraction of microns
  18. across which are found between stars.
  19. As you can see here, radio waves are there waves
  20. are very long and stretched out, showing that it's harmless.
  21. But as you move through microwaves, infrared visible light, X
  22. ray and gamma, they've become very penetrating and become very
  23. harmful visible light, ultraviolet X ray and gamma ray, visible
  24. light, visible light are things like fireflies, light bugs and
  25. anything that your eyes can detect during the night.
  26. Our eyes can see stars in the sky and this
  27. is why all stars emit visible light.
  28. Ultraviolet ultraviolet is emitted by the Sun.
  29. This is the reason people 10 or burn it is
  30. hot objects in space which UV radiation as well, X
  31. ray, X rays.
  32. We've all come across X rays before.
  33. These are things uh dentist doctors or maybe even in
  34. airport security X rays are used to see through things.
  35. I used to see through things or in things.
  36. But it's not really used on earth here.
  37. After these purposes.
  38. X rays are hot hot gases in the universe.
  39. Also emit X rays.
  40. Gamma ray gamma ray is a penetrating form arising from
  41. the radioactive decay of atomic nuclear.
  42. They gamma ray produced the hottest and most energetic objects
  43. in the universe, such as neutron neutron stars include poll
  44. pulsars, supernova explosions in any end up regions around the
  45. black hole mission and absorption.
  46. Yeah. And this is a line spectrum of emission and
  47. absorption and also continuous, continuous is probably the easiest to
  48. understand as it just goes right through and you don't
  49. lose energy or your energy level doesn't go to lower
  50. or higher.
  51. It goes right through.
  52. But if you go if absorb but the absorption, the
  53. absorption spectra on the other hand, takes in atoms, It
  54. absorbs atoms when the hot black.
  55. When the hot black body emits light energy or anything
  56. like that.
  57. The hydrogen gas takes energy from the atoms take energy
  58. from what is being emitted.
  59. This is why this little black lines here show that
  60. there is the energy level has gone down, down, down
  61. and down.
  62. But on a mission, on a mission is the opposite
  63. of absorption.
  64. A mission a mission emits light.
  65. It gives light, which means it's energy level is going
  66. up as you can see here.
  67. These are the lines that are showing and yeah, how
  68. are emission lines and absorption lines are produced when electrons
  69. move from a higher energy level to a level one
  70. photons are emitted.
  71. An admission and an emission line can be seen in
  72. the spectrum, absorption lines are seen when electrons absorb photons
  73. and moved to a higher energy level.
  74. The lines of on the atomic spectrum relate to electronic
  75. transmissions between the energy levels.
  76. If the electron drops and energy level of photon is
  77. released, resulting in the emission line.
  78. And if the electron absorbs a photon and rises in
  79. energy level, an absorption line is a is observed on
  80. the spectrum specter spectroscopy and how planets are, can be
  81. identified. Spectroscopy.
  82. The science of spectroscopy is quite sophisticated, sophisticated from spectral
  83. lines, astronomers can determine not only the element, but the
  84. temperature and density of the element in the star.
  85. The spectral line also can tell us about any magnetic
  86. field of the star.
  87. The width of the line can tell us how fast
  88. the material is moving through the refraction of light by
  89. prism or through its diffraction by a diffraction grating and
  90. the lights from a source is spread out into its
  91. different visual wavelengths from red to blue because each element
  92. immense or absorbs light only at a specific wavelength The
  93. chemical composition of stars can be determined.
  94. How can planets be identified the dot, the do pla.
  95. The Doppler technique is a good method for discovering exoplanets.
  96. It uses the Doppler effect to analyze the motion and
  97. properties of the star and planet, both the planet and
  98. star orbiting around a common center of mass.
  99. As you can see in this diagram, there is the
  100. center of mass, that little gray dot and the planet
  101. is the little blue dot.
  102. But the star can yeah, but the star can be
  103. detected by its motion by the red and blue lines.
  104. As you can see the red lines, wavelengths mean that
  105. the star is moving away away from the planet and
  106. if it's moving towards it's moving.
  107. It's a blue wave length.
  108. Mhm conditions for life beyond earth, the solar system habitable
  109. zones. What is the habitable zone?
  110. The standard definition is that is that the habitable zone
  111. is a range of distances from a star in which
  112. liquid water could be found.
  113. Liquid water is a necessity is is necessary for all
  114. life on earth.
  115. The notion of a habitable zone is founded by the
  116. assumption that life is beyond earth that beyond earth would
  117. require it as well.
  118. This is fairly cautious because this is a and definition
  119. because the planet's sores surface temperature is affected by a
  120. variety of lemon of elements including its atmosphere, glasshouse gases
  121. and reflectivity around 40 planets have been discovered that are
  122. roughly earth sized and orbit within the same within the
  123. habitable zones of their stars, including the nearest X extrasolar
  124. planet, pro asthma, center Century B and three planets in
  125. the tres pit trap pissed one system, as you can
  126. see here in this diagram, the green highlighted part is
  127. the habitable zones.
  128. The red part is when it's too hot and the
  129. cold part is when it's too cold, even though the
  130. trappist one is found to be in the too cold
  131. air like area.
  132. It does, it is within the habitable zone of their
  133. um like orbits within the habitable zone of their stars.
  134. A planet in the habitable zone when a star is
  135. too young, may substantial, quickly, substantial, quickly become too hot.
  136. Other planets could become too cold for liquid water to
  137. exist when there starts to young, but might warm up
  138. enough to have liquid water on their surface leader as
  139. their star increases as you can see here increases in
  140. age. But as you can see here, these are planets
  141. here um these are all the planets that are found
  142. to be habitable habit, had habitable.
  143. How can planets be identified temperature and energy astronomers have
  144. also utilized climate stimulations Simulations to conclude that additional extrasolar
  145. planets such as copper 452 B could have surface water
  146. given the correct climate conditions.
  147. Internal energy sources like radioactive decay and tidal heating can
  148. also heat heat the planet surface to the point where
  149. when water melts.
  150. These energy sources can also keep underground water reserves afloat,
  151. allowing planets to harbor life even though it's beyond it's
  152. beyond its star's habitable zone.
  153. For example, her earth has a very vast underground by
  154. atmosphere. I'll buy it.
  155. It also virtually entirely, it's virtually entirely made up of
  156. basic species that can thrive in low oxygen situations.
  157. Nouveau pa jupiter's moon has a liquid water ocean 10
  158. tens of kilometers beneath its surface that could support life
  159. you've read about.
  160. You've roper is one is home to one of the
  161. largest oceans in the solar system.
  162. All the most of its water lies underneath the surface
  163. of this world heating it caused by the tidal forces
  164. of jupiter keeps large proportions of these ocean liquids increasing
  165. changes the chances of life evolving them.
  166. I just think that Europa's ice shell is 15 to
  167. 25 kilometers thick of floating the ocean 60 to 150
  168. kilometers deep.
  169. So while Europa is 1/4 the diameter of earth, it's
  170. ocean may contain twice as much water as all of
  171. earth is as all ifs ocean combined, life on other
  172. planets. Places where life may be hiding in the solar
  173. system. These are these are top 10 planets where people
  174. have found that earth may be hiding this.
  175. This is the list origins of life in the universe.
  176. The origins of life in the universe as having come
  177. from organic molecules in space, organic molecules are known to
  178. exist in star forming regions and in proto planetary discs
  179. where planets are formed.
  180. It was a natural consequence that astronomers considered a relationship
  181. between organic molecules in space and the original original of
  182. life. Some of these molecules were building blocks of proto
  183. cellular, good structures which is self absorbed, self assemble from
  184. M. M.
  185. Fulfill IQ compounds into vessels, vessels, vessels and other structures
  186. such as my my cells and multi layers.
  187. Researchers from the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec Canada have
  188. just produced more evidence that life could have begun in
  189. space. The research team assured that some organic molecules in
  190. the form of building blocks in life could have developed
  191. icy films subject subjected to radiation within a vacuum, opening
  192. the possibility that life on this planet might actually be
  193. X extraterrestrial in origin.
  194. There is no proof that life began in space, but
  195. the film does provide evidence that building blocks of life
  196. may come from space.
  197. Yeah, originating on earth Here, I've got a small video
  198. explaining elements and compounds and how on Earth