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Cool Worlds
Space, astronomy, exoplanets, astroengineering and the search for extraterrestrial life & intelligence.The Cool Worlds Lab (http://coolworldslab.com), based at the Department of Astronomy, Columbia University, is a team of astronomers seeking to discover and understand alien worlds, particularly those where temperatures are cool enough for life, led by Professor David Kipping.Links:Subscribe!: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGHZpIpAWJQ-Jy_CeCdXhMA?sub_confirmation=1
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Cool WorldsExomoons and Earth Twins QandA
Answers to your questions on our recent Earth Twins (https://youtu.be/1eJnZncyAyM) and Exomoons (https://youtu.be/S3VQ0PdoR3M) videos. Sorry for the poor sound…
Cool WorldsThe Habitable Zone: Undergraduate Outreach Project
This semester I taught "Exoplanets & Astrobiology" at Columbia and decided to do something a bit non-traditional and ask my class to make outreach videos in…
Cool WorldsWhy We Might NEVER Detect Alien Life
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Cool WorldsDiscovery of a Jupiter Twin: QandA
We recently announced the discovery of the first Jupiter-like planet seen to transit its star. Thanks to all of you who watched our last video (link below!)…
Cool WorldsWe're Finally Unlocking the "Cosmic Shoreline"
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Cool WorldsHow to Characterize Proxima b's Atmosphere
As regular watchers of the channel may remember, this summer astronomers announced the discovery of a potentially Earth-like planet orbiting our nearest star…
Cool WorldsIs Messaging Aliens a Bad Idea?
We listen, but we don't send. Why do we expect aliens to transmit if we don't? Many have voiced concerns about any programs designed to broadcast our presence…
Cool WorldsWhy Starship Could Transform Astronomy
SpaceX's Starship rocket is nearing first orbital tests. This Super Heavy launch vehicle promises to lift enormous masses into space, and do so at far cheaper…
Cool WorldsHow Thermodynamics Holds Back Negative Carbon Tech
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Cool WorldsWhat's Stopping Us From Building a Warp Drive?
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Cool WorldsWhy Technological Civilizations Might Be Insanely Rare
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Cool WorldsWhere are the exomoons?
The Cool Worlds Lab is trying to find the first exomoon, a moon around a planet outside the Solar System. But, exomoons have been eluding us for a few years…
Cool WorldsThe Problem With "The Rare Earth Hypothesis"
The Rare Earth Hypothesis suggests that our planet may the product of an incredibly improbable sequence of events, and thus perhaps intelligent life is…
Cool WorldsWhy Finding Aliens Could Doom Humanity
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Cool WorldsEyeball Earths
Earth-sized planets found in the habitable-zones of low-mass stars are likely to become tidally locked to the star, with one side baked in perpetual sunlight…
Cool WorldsWhat the Hell Happened to Venus?
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Cool WorldsDiscovery of a Jupiter Twin!
The Cool Worlds Lab just announced the discovery of the first transiting Jupiter-analog outside the Solar System, named "Kepler-167e". The transit method has…
Cool WorldsThe Genius Who Thought Aliens Lived in the Sun
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Cool WorldsThe Fate of Our Sun
For billions of years the Sun has been the perpetual, life-giving star in our sky. It's a force of immense power, yet one we take for granted in our every day…
Cool WorldsThe Star That Shouldn't Exist
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Cool WorldsThe Ultra-Cool Dwarf: TRAPPIST-1 | Elisabeth Newton
Astronomers just announced the discovery of seven Earth-sized transiting planets around TRAPPIST-1! Elisabeth Newton, who studies very small stars like…
Cool WorldsListening for Alien Civilizations at a Temporal "Waterhole"
We're looking forward to the new sci-fi film "Arrival", which explores the barriers to communicating with aliens even face to face. Astronomers really are…
Cool WorldsSome Good News
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Cool WorldsOutlasting the Universe
Now and again we make a video that's a bit different from our usual stuff and here's one of them. A fictional narrative that weaves in scientific ideas of deep…
Cool WorldsThe Wow! Signal After 45 Years
The Wow! Signal was a radio signal detected in 1977 that remains the most compelling candidate for an alien radio transmission ever received. 45 years later…
Cool WorldsDoes Life's Early Appearance Mean it's Easy?
Does life's early emergence mean life starts easily? Growing evidence shows that life got started very quickly (within ~100 million years) after conditions…
Cool WorldsHow Does ChatGPT Do on a College Level Astrophysics Exam?
Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) systems have been rapidly improving in recent years and Chat-GPT3 took the world by storm in Nov 2022. As smart at it may be…
Cool WorldsHow to Destroy a Nuke Anywhere on Earth
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Cool WorldsWhy Black Holes Break The Universe
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Cool WorldsWhy All Mirrors Are Lying to You
When you look the mirror, the image you see is accurate, right? Sure you left and right side get flipped, but what about your size, color and proportions? When…
Cool WorldsThe Fermi Paradox Has An Incredibly Simple Solution
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Cool WorldsA Theory for Tabby's Star (Without Aliens) | Metzger and Stone
You've probably heard about the recent news of the strange dimmings of Tabby's Star and the provoactive hypothesis of an alien megastructure (fi not check out…
Cool WorldsTraversable Wormholes
Until recently, it was thought that travel through a wormhole, like that seen in the 2014 Christopher Nolan film Interstellar, was forbidden by the laws of…
Cool WorldsNASA's in Trouble
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Cool WorldsCrowded or Lonely? The Statistics of Alien Life
New research paper from the Cool Worlds Lab! Today we explore the implications of a classic result in statistics but applied to alien life for the first time…
Cool WorldsHow to Flip a Planet
Many exoplanets, including hot-Jupiters, have been observed to orbit the star the wrong way round, in retrograde orbits relative to the star's rotation. Prof…
Cool WorldsA JuMBO Mystery - This Shouldn't Happen!
Some startling discoveries from JWST and now Euclid and shaking up our ideas of planet formation and evolution - free floating worlds that really tax our…
Cool WorldsDoes Quantum Entanglement Allow for Faster-Than-Light Communication?
Quantum entanglement allows particles to affect one another faster than the speed of light. So does this mean we could one day build a device to exploit this…
Cool WorldsCool Worlds Research in 2017: A Look Ahead!
It's time to take a break for a few weeks but before we do, here's a look ahead at what research we'll be getting up to in 2017! Many of us are heading to the…
Cool WorldsThe Great American Eclipse 2017
Get ready! On August 21st 2017, Americans will be treated to a rare total Solar eclipse. From coast to coast, everyone in the US should be able to see at least…
Cool WorldsA Real Tractor Beam
NYU Professor of Physics, David Grier, dropped in to tell us about his team's amazing work building the world's first real life tractor beam. Just like Star…
Cool WorldsAre Dyson Spheres Physically Possible?
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Cool WorldsAlien signal received from HD 164595?
Dr Seth Shostak, Senior Astronomer of the SETI Institute, was at the New England Fall Astronomy Festival with me last week and I took the opportunity to ask…
Cool WorldsDo "Grabby Aliens" Solve The Fermi Paradox?
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Cool WorldsThe Question That Keeps Me Awake At Night
The most fundamental question we can ever ask: Why is something rather than nothing? Not nothing as in no particles or no energy, but nothing as in no space…
Cool WorldsThe Signatures of Alien Life… or Not | Tiffany Jansen
Astronomers are finding habitable exoplanets everywhere! We are now starting to think about the next step, how can we use our telescopes to look for signs of…
Cool WorldsJupiter: Friend or Foe? | Elisa Quintana
Jupiter is the King of the Solar System but exoplanet surveys have revealed that it's an unusual type of world. Just ~10% of Sun-like stars have planets of the…
Cool WorldsClimate Emergency? Global Sea Ice at Anomalously Low Levels
This week a plot showing the global sea ice over time went viral due to shockingly low levels, smashing previous records. The plot was so weird that we decided…
Cool WorldsProxima b QandA - is Proxima b tidally locked?
Thanks for all of your great comments and questions on our last two Proxima b videos! Here's a quick video covering some of the most common questions about…
Cool WorldsInterstellar Propulsion Technologies - RANKED!
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Cool WorldsHow often does life start on other worlds?
Astrobiology an exciting new field studying how life begins and the conditions needed both on Earth and elsewhere in the cosmos. Columbia's Director of…
Cool WorldsIT'S HAPPENING!! RIGHT NOW!
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Cool Worlds1000 Subs Thank-you + Channel Mission
Woah, 1000 subscribers! Thanks to everyone who viewed and subscribed so far! Quick thank-you video and some background about this channel's goals and future…
Cool WorldsJWST Reveals Exoplanets As Never Seen Before
JWST is approaching its one year anniversary since launching into space! So what has been found in that first year? Today we focus on exoplanets and summarize…
Cool WorldsThe Odds of Life - THIS CHANGED MY MIND
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