TWO Earth-like planets found in the HABITABLE ZONE (just 6% bigger than Earth!)

Meanwhile people on the other planet staring back at us: We found planet in habitable zone that is just 6% lighter than ours!

People don’t realize how thin the atmosphere really is. Take a standard school size globe, and the atmosphere is slightly thinner than a paper clip. So the science to detect an atmosphere in an earth sized planet it’s very impressive.

“Good Science takes time” - Dr Becky Words to live by

Not only the orbital period is longer for planets in the habitable zone making the transits easier to miss, but, the angle of it's orbital plane relative to us need to be much smaller. Otherwise, it will transit above or under the star, and, we'll miss it entirely.

I was at the bus stop today and overheard a mother talking to her daughter about the talk she had to do for school. It was about these new exoplanets that had been discovered. The little girl couldn't find any information on them, so I piped in and recommended your channel as you might have covered it. And went on my way. Had to check you did and I'm so happy I found it as the little girl will have all the information she needs for her talk, in an understandable and accessible way. Love your work, and bloopers! :)

Your videos keep getting better, which is impossible because they’ve been excellent from the start. As always, thank you!

Consider this a house-warming gift.

It's wild that there's already a history of exoplanet detection.

TESS has four cameras, and one points for most of the year in the same direction --- so we can get short-duration planets out at the satellite's "horizon", but longer-duration ones in the direction of the satellite's "zenith". Still crazy hard to find an Earth-year-long period as you say. Thanks for a great and solid video (as always) --- I'm on the TESS Instrument team and we're sharing it around! --- the care you take to walk through the topics clearly and accurately is really, really appreciated

Wonderful news! Like you said, there has been so much attention on planets around red dwarves or the larger planets. I've been doing my best to be patient because I know there are good reasons for this...and the work that has been done so far is just incredible...but now we're getting closer. Yay! Love ya Dr. Becky, you are one of the jewels of YouTube!

Can I suggest a correction? At around 2:50 you say that with the transition method, it's easier to find planets that are larger and that are closer to their star. You explain that in both cases the planets block more light. That's true of course for bigger planets, but not really for planets closer to their stars. The apparent diameter of an exoplanet is proportional to the inverse of its distance to us. And when we're talking about light years of distance, a few Astronomical Units more or less isn't gonna make much difference. The reasons exoplanets with higher orbits are harder to find are the reason you did explain (shorter periods means quicker to confirm) but also the fact that far-orbiting planets must be almost perfectly aligned to pass in front of its star. A close orbiting planet means its orbit's inclination has more wiggle room for it to still pass in front of its star's disk. So that's why finding close orbiting exoplanets is more likely.

Thanks a bunch for the news, dr. Becky! 😊 Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

It's absolutely impressive how we're able to detect those type of things from such a distance. Our tech is getting better... 🙂

A note of caution to would-be tourists: It's the "habitable" zone, not the "comfortable" zone. Don't buy a ticket just yet. :)

Iv been helping classify data from Tess on zooniverse for years. It's what motivated me to get my MSc in Astronomy. It's so cool to hear about discoveries like this!

Interesting habitable planet potentials. Looking forward to seeing how further studies add and refine the list. Your song was perfect, btw 🎵

I love how excited you are about this ..... I know the feeling .... stuff like this is incredibly fascinating. At times I wish I had more people around me that could get as excited about new discoveries with exoplanets as I do.

Interesting results from TESS, and your usual informative and engaging discussion.

I bought your audiobook and have thoroughly enjoyed listening to it! Hope you find your birthday present soon in our solar system 👍

Hi Dr Becky, I love these videos and news you present each month. Astronomy is my passion since childhood. Now I am trying to pass it on to my children.