Is Kepler-22B Our Future Home?

We humans have a problem our planet will be uninhabitable within a few hundred thousand years or perhaps as soon as ten thousand the climate is getting too hot water could evaporate more and more the expansion of deserts is advancing and if we do not solve the exhaust gas problem under control these changes will occur much faster humanity is looking for an alternative planet and within our star system so far only Mars is available as an alternative but Mars is inhospitable it has no atmosphere or oxygen to breathe and radiation It is very high how promising was the discovery of Kepler-22b, an exoplanet that could be confusingly similar to our Earth.

Find out how and if we will ever be able to colonize this planet in this video. Stay tuned because it's going to be exciting and of course, as always, we welcome your personal contributions on the topic. at the end of the foreign video is Kepler-22b the new Earth in 2009 photographs of the star Kepler-22 revealed a small suspicious point just a year later new scientific research confirmed that this point was most likely an exoplanet the final confirmation came in 2011 making 22b was one of the first exoplanets detected by the Kepler Mission and it was all the better because even the first find turned out to be a bullseye.

Increasing evidence suggested that Kepler-22b was an Earth-like planet. Astronomers' jargon means, first of all, that the exoplanet is in the habitable zone of its star. Factors such as size, mass, orbital speed and proper rotation are then determined. Finally, the scientists point to the associated star. Kepler-22 is a yellow dwarf similar to our sun. And the stars are even about the same age as our sun, 4 billion years old. With only 80 percent of our sun's luminosity, Kepler-22 is a little dimmer and cooler, however, since the exoplanet Kepler-22b is a little closer to its star than we are.

For our sun, this difference in luminosity would be beneficial compared to our position in the star system. Kepler-22b would be somewhere between Earth and Venus and as we all know, it is too hot on Venus for life forms like us or even for animals and planets. Kepler-22b probably gets just the right amount of heat and light due to its proximity to its less luminous planet, but even that doesn't constitute a new Earth; if the planet lacks a protective atmosphere, comfortable temperatures would end during the day. around 100 degrees Celsius or more and at night minus degrees in the triple digit range.

Making Earth extremely cold would be much hotter without the protective blanket of gases and dust, and cosmic radiation would cause problems for organic life forms. conditions of Kepler-22b Scientists have been able to confirm that Kepler-22b is 2.4 times the size of the Earth, presumably the surface is at a comfortable 22 degrees Celsius for a long time after its discovery, the exoplanet was classified as the most similar to Earth of all planets outside the solar system, the planet probably has a peculiarity that already questions again its choice as an alternative planet for humanity because Kepler-22b is most likely much denser than Earth about 65 percent of our Earth's gravitational pull means gravity practically six times stronger if you and I stepped off a spaceship on the planet, we would probably fall to the ground first and need real muscle strength to get up again or even walk;

However, it is questionable whether we would get there because most likely our spacecraft or space capsule would have already been plopped onto the planet's surface like a wet sack, scientists could certainly work out the technical details in a few dozen or hundreds of years. and make a soft landing possible, but what about our bodies that couldn't just six times? Stronger gravity makes body weight seem much heavier, but blood would be pumped more forcefully through the veins and other body fluids would also have completely different behavior. According to experts, if there are living beings on Kepler-22b, they have a very robust constitution and are probably thicker.

The bodily fluids that we, plants, and animals would certainly look very different on Kepler-22b. The existence of a form of life that we do not yet know or cannot imagine is also possible. The Earth alone demonstrates that there is an incredible variety of life forms and that the intelligence of life always manages to adapt to changing conditions through evolutionary processes, but we do not have to give up our human dreams of a second Earth just yet. space because until now the strong gravity on the planet is a pure assumption and not certainly confirmed, unfortunately it is not yet confirmed that Kepler-22b is a rocky planet.

It would also be possible that this exoplanet is a pure gas planet or Neptune-like, a gas planet with a solid core. The Kepler Telescope was one of the first telescopes that could demonstrate with certainty the existence of exoplanets only we, humans, can currently see them also with the best telescopes none of the planets directly and clearly the previous knowledge about the planets outside our solar system is based on calculations of the size of the dark spot visible in front of Kepler-22 from its motion patterns, the repetition rate and the minimal changes in the proper motion of the star Kepler-22, from these parameters, the Scientists can calculate a surprising amount, but we won't be certain about the details until we can observe exoplanets more directly.

After all, the new James Webb Space Telescope will already be scanning exoplanet environments for signatures of certain elements and gases. For example, researchers on Earth will be able to determine whether a planet has an atmosphere or not. For example, how long is a Kepler-22b year, it was very easy to determine that every 290 days the dark spot appeared in the same position, so a year on this planet lasts 75 days less than it would last for us if we ever We could determine if Kepler-22b has a water-rich atmosphere, of course it would be possible to draw conclusions about the presence of water or oceans on the surface, because without water there is no life, of course water would also have to be present on a quality conducive to life, salt water allows a certain richness of species to thrive, but on our planet all terrestrial creatures need fresh water to drink before a mission with colonists to a strange planet is triggered, all these questions should surely clarified, otherwise a mission would seem like a suicide mission with an extremely uncertain outcome at present.

We know very little about the axis and rotation of the planet, whether it has seasons or moons, they are even more difficult to detect in the vastness of the cosmos than exoplanets, assuming we knew all these things and promised that there would still be another problem in finding new worlds in the cosmos the journey to Kepler-22b the planet Kepler-22b is located about 635 light years from Earth, this means that light, which is known to travel very fast, requires seven lives of an average human being to covering the technical means available at a distance the Kepler-22 system would probably be unattainable even if humans set off and lived seven or eight generations alone in a spacecraft until reaching their destination building such a spacecraft to last that long would be difficult The fuel tanks have to be incredibly large and a mission would probably technically fail just because of these two factors.

People would also travel in zero gravity and their bodies would most likely suffer the worst consequences of muscle atrophy and bone breakdown after only a few years. The consequences of space. radiation would also be hardly predictable or reasonable at present, we would not even be able to travel to our closest cosmic neighbor, the Alpha Centauri system, if we are lucky, humans will reach Mars in the next decade, so what is the point of searching for exoplanets? ? Now you may wonder, perhaps rightly, why humans search for Earth-like exoplanets or scientists search for alternative worlds. Well, science and progress do not sleep, we do not know what technical possibilities we will have in 100 or 1000 years, the last few months, some international.

Research teams have reported immense progress in actually developing a warp drive. In theory, this has been around since the 1990s. However, practical propulsion remains a problem, but experts suspect that it will take humans at most another 50 years to overcome this problem. By creating a warp bubble, a spaceship could move through space without moving at all. Simply put, this propulsion works by distorting space-time. Open it at the front, compress it at the back, and a vehicle slides through the resulting fold in time and space. It sounds fantastic, yes, but This has already been achieved in an experiment with a one-millimeter spacecraft.

With this form of locomotion, people would not be exposed for a long time to weightlessness or space radiation and the travel time would hardly vary, regardless of whether the trip is to Mars Alpha Centauri or the Kepler-22 system, it would only take a few moments. a little help from a friend The Beatles sang that With a little help from a friend everything would be better humans are not only looking for second Earths or potentially habitable planets. In the immensity of space we also look for other living beings and inhabited planets. According to statistics, there must be at least several hundred other planets in the Milky Way alone that host some form of organic life.

Intelligent civilizations could be a handful or even thousands. The Milky Way alone is incredibly large and we know of only 5,000 exoplanets out of probably billions. If we could make contact with an advanced civilization that has faster-than-light modes of propulsion, we earthlings could get some kind of technical mentoring and perhaps travel to space soon. That sounds fantastic, incredible or just impossible to you. What do you think about our

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