The 2 planets are huge (21 & 7 times the mass of Jupiter) and very far from their star (5 & 11 times further out than Neptune is from our sun) so it's unlikely that they have life; there could be smaller closer planets that would have life but it's beyond our ability to see them.
The star is only 17 million years old (scroll down for an article on the image). I don't think that's enough time for life to evolve in our current understanding, definitely not what we would view as "people"
I expect conditions in such a young system are too hostile to support life. Life didn't appear on Earth until a billion years or so after its formation.
Dosent mean to say they cant develop quicker on other planatery systems maybe it took long for life to evolve on earth because maybe it didnt want humans to evolve on it ,like a bad virus that wouldnt go away ...
Life seems to have appeared on Earth as soon as conditions allowed. It's so hard to make predictions with our sample size of 1 though. What great filters matter most to life arising? I'm excited for what JWST finds.
That's what I thought as well, but I'm very far from an authority so I kept it vague lol I also wonder about proximity to the star and radiation effects on any developing forms of life.
The absolutely last thing this universe needs is more people!
Something’s out there; their vehicles are flying around here all the time. I have been witness to alien technology, from about 50 yards distance. Who knows if the civilizations that built these things even still exist?
The two planets (both down and right of the star in the image) are enormous gas giants several times larger than Jupiter and orbit much farther than Pluto does in our own system. Needless to say, it’s veeeery cold there.
the challenge, of course, remains in actually being able to reproduce outside of our home planet. it is not guaranteed that the form of life familiar to us may even begin without Earth
Light (or electromagnetic spectrum) from the star in the system reflects off the planets and depending on orbital position, spectrum filtered/captured, exposure duration, etc. We see the moon phases & distinguishing features clearly and it emits no light itself, only that reflected from the sun.
Yes. But that still does explein this picture…
You can’t have round planets reflecting light like this picture? Definitely not at the same time.
So are these multiple pictures? Or is somebody cheating and filing up black space.
This simply can’t be one picture.
Every other picture i have ever seen of a planet outside our solar system are pictures of a planet passing the sun and thereby blocking the starlight so we can see it.
Never seen one like this.
So the system has two gas giants, larger than Jupiter very far from the star (cooler and less luminous than the sun). Newly formed planets retain heat from formation but will cool over time. Yet on any moons, life might be sustained by tidal heating (as in Europa's and Enceladus's sub-ice oceans?).
Before y'all get too excited, the planets are 6x and 14x the size of our Jupiter and therefore very unlikely to host life remotely resembling anything found on Earth
Kind of funny to think that to see us, they'll either have to be sitting on their North or south pole 😁 depending on how they're spinning, we're either directly above or below them
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Meanwhile this is what I see
Which star system is this?
And, how did we directly image this solar system from trillions of miles away?
Something’s out there; their vehicles are flying around here all the time. I have been witness to alien technology, from about 50 yards distance. Who knows if the civilizations that built these things even still exist?
But it´s so beautiful and fascinating 😍
You can’t have round planets reflecting light like this picture? Definitely not at the same time.
So are these multiple pictures? Or is somebody cheating and filing up black space.
This simply can’t be one picture.
Never seen one like this.
How's the weather over there?
What took it?