WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.100 All right, so you know how for like decades now, 00:00:03.140 --> 00:00:04.860 there's been this whole Planet X thing, like 00:00:04.860 --> 00:00:06.860 this mysterious planet lurking somewhere beyond 00:00:06.860 --> 00:00:10.160 Neptune. It's been this kind of persistent mystery, 00:00:10.359 --> 00:00:12.539 right? This missing piece in our solar system 00:00:12.539 --> 00:00:14.880 puzzle. It is, it's intriguing, isn't it? These 00:00:14.880 --> 00:00:18.239 hints of a hidden mass out there. They've never 00:00:18.239 --> 00:00:21.280 really gone away. You see these little, these 00:00:21.280 --> 00:00:24.510 slightly. off movements, like things aren't quite 00:00:24.510 --> 00:00:27.750 right with objects way out there in the, you 00:00:27.750 --> 00:00:29.949 know, in the cold, dark edges of our solar system. 00:00:30.149 --> 00:00:32.130 Yeah, exactly. And that's exactly what we're 00:00:32.130 --> 00:00:34.409 going to be diving into today, because we may 00:00:34.409 --> 00:00:37.030 have a total game changer this whole planet X 00:00:37.030 --> 00:00:40.070 search. So get this Google A .I. studio. They've 00:00:40.070 --> 00:00:43.090 been analyzing all this data from the James Webb 00:00:43.090 --> 00:00:45.469 Space Telescope. Now, the crazy part is they 00:00:45.469 --> 00:00:47.530 weren't even looking for a planet directly. No. 00:00:47.710 --> 00:00:49.750 But they may have stumbled onto the most compelling 00:00:49.750 --> 00:00:52.469 evidence yet. And this is why this is so fascinating 00:00:52.469 --> 00:00:55.570 to me, because what we have here is an article 00:00:55.570 --> 00:00:58.729 from Discovery Magazine. And they've really laid 00:00:58.729 --> 00:01:00.969 out a complex story in a way that's pretty accessible. 00:01:01.409 --> 00:01:03.409 So our mission today is really to get a grip 00:01:03.409 --> 00:01:06.530 on this whole Planet X idea. Like, what made 00:01:06.530 --> 00:01:08.549 scientists think it was out there in the first 00:01:08.549 --> 00:01:11.409 place? What did this AI actually find? And if 00:01:11.409 --> 00:01:13.810 this thing turns out to be real, What does it 00:01:13.810 --> 00:01:17.489 mean? So think of this as your crash course, 00:01:17.689 --> 00:01:19.890 your shortcut to understanding a potentially 00:01:19.890 --> 00:01:23.150 massive astronomical discovery. Yeah, and I think 00:01:23.150 --> 00:01:24.849 it's really important to jump right into the 00:01:24.849 --> 00:01:28.140 heart of this. the anomaly that this Google AI 00:01:28.140 --> 00:01:31.019 found, the AI wasn't, you know, going through 00:01:31.019 --> 00:01:33.060 gorgeous pictures of space, looking for a tiny 00:01:33.060 --> 00:01:34.560 dot of light. Right, it was doing something way 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:36.599 more complex, right, like your cosmic detective 00:01:36.599 --> 00:01:39.420 work. Yeah, precisely. It was it was trained 00:01:39.420 --> 00:01:42.640 on, like, a crazy amount of deep space data, 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:45.819 decades worth. And it was learning to recognize 00:01:45.819 --> 00:01:48.280 the tiniest, most subtle movements, these little 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:50.579 deviations, patterns in how objects move, the 00:01:50.579 --> 00:01:52.859 kind of things that even with incredible instruments, 00:01:53.159 --> 00:01:55.799 human astronomers, you know, they could easily 00:01:55.799 --> 00:01:58.040 miss in that massive amount of information. So 00:01:58.040 --> 00:02:00.219 the AI found something pretty unique. What was 00:02:00.219 --> 00:02:04.340 it? Well the AI flagged multiple celestial objects 00:02:04.340 --> 00:02:06.700 way out there you know in the distant solar system 00:02:06.700 --> 00:02:08.879 and they all seemed to be drifting off course 00:02:08.879 --> 00:02:12.159 and here's the kicker it wasn't random. Oh, OK. 00:02:12.360 --> 00:02:14.599 It was a consistent pattern. It was like they 00:02:14.599 --> 00:02:17.479 were being pulled ever so slightly in the same 00:02:17.479 --> 00:02:19.500 direction, almost like they were responding to 00:02:19.500 --> 00:02:22.379 the gravity of something big but invisible. Like 00:02:22.379 --> 00:02:24.620 imagine a bunch of boats all sort of drifting 00:02:24.620 --> 00:02:26.479 in the same direction because of an underwater 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:28.960 current you can't see. So it's not just one rogue 00:02:28.960 --> 00:02:31.099 space rock acting weird. It's a whole bunch of 00:02:31.099 --> 00:02:34.449 them. Yeah, that's right. In the article, it 00:02:34.449 --> 00:02:36.750 really stresses that this wasn't just some random 00:02:36.750 --> 00:02:40.409 blip in the data. The AI ran calculations and 00:02:40.409 --> 00:02:42.969 everything pointed to a single source for this 00:02:42.969 --> 00:02:46.009 gravitational influence. Something big with the 00:02:46.009 --> 00:02:48.909 mass of a planet hiding beyond Neptune. Okay, 00:02:48.949 --> 00:02:51.689 so this raises a really big question. Why did 00:02:51.689 --> 00:02:54.189 astronomers even start thinking about this planet 00:02:54.189 --> 00:02:56.789 XID in the first place? What tipped them off? 00:02:56.969 --> 00:02:59.090 Well, for years, you know, astronomers have been 00:02:59.090 --> 00:03:02.050 noticing these unexplained movements of objects 00:03:02.050 --> 00:03:04.449 in the outer solar system, especially in the 00:03:04.449 --> 00:03:07.430 Kuiper Belt, which is this region beyond Neptune 00:03:07.430 --> 00:03:10.530 full of icy bodies. Their orbits just didn't 00:03:10.530 --> 00:03:12.490 make sense based on the gravity of the planets 00:03:12.490 --> 00:03:14.629 we knew about. It was like a piece of the puzzle 00:03:14.629 --> 00:03:17.349 was missing. And this wasn't like a brand new 00:03:17.349 --> 00:03:20.150 idea either, right? Yeah. The article mentioned 00:03:20.150 --> 00:03:23.210 some calculations from back in 2016. Yeah. Back 00:03:23.210 --> 00:03:25.949 then, some researchers proposed that a giant 00:03:26.319 --> 00:03:28.860 unseen planet could be the answer, something 00:03:28.860 --> 00:03:32.039 maybe 10 times the mass of Earth, like a super 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:34.080 Earth, which we know exists around other stars, 00:03:34.139 --> 00:03:36.500 but we haven't found one in our own solar system. 00:03:36.599 --> 00:03:39.199 Until now, maybe. But if it's out there, why 00:03:39.199 --> 00:03:41.060 haven't we seen it? I mean, we've got some incredibly 00:03:41.060 --> 00:03:43.740 powerful telescopes that can see like billions 00:03:43.740 --> 00:03:45.560 of light years away. Why haven't they spotted 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:47.740 something in our own backyard? That's a great 00:03:47.740 --> 00:03:50.240 question. And there are a few key reasons for 00:03:50.240 --> 00:03:52.979 that. First off, it's the distance. If Planet 00:03:52.979 --> 00:03:56.099 X is really far out there, maybe 20 times farther 00:03:56.099 --> 00:03:58.580 from the sun than Neptune, it would only get 00:03:58.580 --> 00:04:01.060 a tiny amount of sunlight. And the amount of 00:04:01.060 --> 00:04:03.280 light it could reflect back to us would be, well, 00:04:03.639 --> 00:04:06.300 almost nothing. It would be unbelievably faint. 00:04:06.520 --> 00:04:08.539 So even with our best telescopes, we're talking 00:04:08.539 --> 00:04:12.080 like trying to see a firefly miles away. Pretty 00:04:12.080 --> 00:04:14.300 much. And then there's the possibility of it 00:04:14.300 --> 00:04:16.579 having a really elliptical orbit. That means 00:04:16.579 --> 00:04:18.879 it's not a perfect circle around the sun, but 00:04:18.879 --> 00:04:21.100 more like an oval shape. So it could be spending 00:04:21.100 --> 00:04:24.139 most of its time way, way out there in the darkest, 00:04:24.180 --> 00:04:26.779 most remote parts of our solar system. So not 00:04:26.779 --> 00:04:29.160 only is it faint, it's basically playing hide 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:31.920 and seek in the vastness of space. Exactly. And 00:04:31.920 --> 00:04:33.639 there's another possibility. And this one is, 00:04:33.720 --> 00:04:35.680 well, it's kind of cool. It could have a really 00:04:35.680 --> 00:04:37.959 weird atmosphere, one that absorbs or reflects 00:04:37.959 --> 00:04:40.480 light in ways we don't expect. Maybe at wavelengths, 00:04:40.660 --> 00:04:42.439 our telescopes aren't even designed to see. Like, 00:04:42.480 --> 00:04:45.240 it's got this kind of cosmic camouflage. So we've 00:04:45.240 --> 00:04:47.639 been looking for reflected sunlight, but this 00:04:47.639 --> 00:04:50.639 thing might be too dim, too far out, or even 00:04:50.639 --> 00:04:52.579 hiding behind its own atmosphere. And this is 00:04:52.579 --> 00:04:54.220 where the AI comes in, right? It wasn't looking 00:04:54.220 --> 00:04:56.240 for light at all. Right. It was looking at something 00:04:56.240 --> 00:04:59.100 else entirely. It was looking at the way gravity 00:04:59.100 --> 00:05:01.339 affects other objects, regardless of whether 00:05:01.339 --> 00:05:03.980 they were emitting or reflecting light. And that's 00:05:03.980 --> 00:05:06.100 what makes this so different, this new way of 00:05:06.100 --> 00:05:07.860 looking at things. And it seems to be working. 00:05:08.519 --> 00:05:12.569 So what can we actually say about this? potential 00:05:12.569 --> 00:05:15.509 Planet X. We've heard about the mass, you know, 00:05:15.649 --> 00:05:18.610 10 times that of Earth, but what else? Well, 00:05:18.850 --> 00:05:21.449 the AI's findings seem to back up the idea that 00:05:21.449 --> 00:05:24.189 it's a super Earth, about 10 times the mass of 00:05:24.189 --> 00:05:27.850 our planet, and its orbit, it seems to be highly 00:05:27.850 --> 00:05:30.069 elliptical and tilted, which would explain why 00:05:30.069 --> 00:05:32.610 it's been so hard to find. And this weird atmosphere, 00:05:32.649 --> 00:05:34.069 that could also be part of the reason we haven't 00:05:34.069 --> 00:05:36.470 seen it directly, right? Exactly. The way it 00:05:36.470 --> 00:05:39.089 interacts with light, it could be making it blend 00:05:39.089 --> 00:05:41.430 in with the background, even for powerful telescopes 00:05:41.430 --> 00:05:44.310 like the James Webb. OK, so we've got this potential 00:05:44.310 --> 00:05:46.790 super Earth way out there in the darkness. And 00:05:46.790 --> 00:05:50.269 now the article gets into some more, well, more 00:05:50.269 --> 00:05:52.490 fringe ideas. It talks about ancient warnings 00:05:52.490 --> 00:05:54.970 and lost knowledge. Yeah. Like, could ancient 00:05:54.970 --> 00:05:57.600 civilizations have known about this planet? Yeah, 00:05:57.699 --> 00:05:59.620 it gets pretty interesting here. The article 00:05:59.620 --> 00:06:01.480 mentions how some researchers look at ancient 00:06:01.480 --> 00:06:04.060 texts and stories like from the Babylonians and 00:06:04.060 --> 00:06:07.360 Sumerians with their idea of Nibiru or the Mayans 00:06:07.360 --> 00:06:09.939 and Egyptians who had these descriptions of dark 00:06:09.939 --> 00:06:12.399 stars or wandering planets. And they wonder, 00:06:12.600 --> 00:06:14.620 could these be ancient observations of planet 00:06:14.620 --> 00:06:16.579 X? Nibiru, that's a name that's been floating 00:06:16.579 --> 00:06:20.339 around in conspiracy theories for years. It's 00:06:20.339 --> 00:06:23.040 quite a leap to connect that to actual astronomical 00:06:23.040 --> 00:06:25.930 research. Oh, definitely. And mainstream science, 00:06:26.189 --> 00:06:28.410 they tend to see these as myths, not scientific 00:06:28.410 --> 00:06:31.310 evidence. But the article does point out this 00:06:31.310 --> 00:06:34.269 strange coincidence. Some of these ancient descriptions, 00:06:34.449 --> 00:06:37.490 a planet that comes and goes, a dark star, they 00:06:37.490 --> 00:06:39.870 kind of match up with what the AI is suggesting 00:06:39.870 --> 00:06:43.470 about planet X. Its distance, its weird orbit, 00:06:43.629 --> 00:06:46.389 its faintness. It makes you wonder, you know, 00:06:46.589 --> 00:06:48.870 what ancient cultures might have observed, even 00:06:48.870 --> 00:06:50.790 if they didn't understand it the way we do now. 00:06:50.889 --> 00:06:53.019 It's a pretty wild thought, isn't it? Now going 00:06:53.019 --> 00:06:56.000 back to more mainstream science, NASA, they've 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:57.879 been searching for this kind of object for a 00:06:57.879 --> 00:07:00.420 long time. Oh yeah, for decades. The article 00:07:00.420 --> 00:07:02.000 talks about how they've used some of our most 00:07:02.000 --> 00:07:04.620 powerful telescopes like Hubble and the Wide 00:07:04.620 --> 00:07:08.019 Field Infrared Survey Explorer or WISE, but they 00:07:08.019 --> 00:07:10.519 haven't found anything conclusive yet. And it 00:07:10.519 --> 00:07:12.180 seems like the reason they haven't is because 00:07:12.180 --> 00:07:14.519 they've been looking for reflected light. Right, 00:07:14.540 --> 00:07:16.500 they were looking for that faint glow of sunlight 00:07:16.500 --> 00:07:19.120 bouncing off a planet. But as we've discussed, 00:07:19.379 --> 00:07:21.879 Planet X might not play by those rules. It could 00:07:21.879 --> 00:07:24.720 be too far, too dark, or masked by its strange 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:27.579 atmosphere. And that's where Google AI, with 00:07:27.579 --> 00:07:30.040 its focus on gravity, really changed the game. 00:07:30.269 --> 00:07:33.089 Now with such a huge discovery potentially coming 00:07:33.089 --> 00:07:35.949 from AI, there's got to be some skepticism in 00:07:35.949 --> 00:07:37.870 the scientific community, right? Absolutely. 00:07:38.170 --> 00:07:41.430 There always is with anything this big. The article 00:07:41.430 --> 00:07:44.050 mentions some concerns like the possibility of 00:07:44.050 --> 00:07:47.629 false positives. AI is powerful. but it's still 00:07:47.629 --> 00:07:50.230 a tool and it can make mistakes. There's always 00:07:50.230 --> 00:07:52.589 a chance it could misinterpret data, see a pattern 00:07:52.589 --> 00:07:54.970 that's not really there. And we have to remember 00:07:54.970 --> 00:07:56.850 there have been other times when scientists thought 00:07:56.850 --> 00:07:58.870 they'd found Planet X only to be proven wrong 00:07:58.870 --> 00:08:01.709 later. So basically the AI could be seeing something 00:08:01.709 --> 00:08:03.850 that's not actually a planet, just a trick of 00:08:03.850 --> 00:08:06.560 the data. Yeah, that's the worry. But what makes 00:08:06.560 --> 00:08:08.379 this different with the article highlights is 00:08:08.379 --> 00:08:11.579 that the AI's findings line up with decades of 00:08:11.579 --> 00:08:14.240 weird gravitational stuff that we couldn't explain. 00:08:14.800 --> 00:08:17.920 The AI is seeing those same strange movements 00:08:17.920 --> 00:08:20.660 in the Kuiper Belt that have puzzled astronomers 00:08:20.660 --> 00:08:23.120 for years. So it's not just a fluke. It fits 00:08:23.120 --> 00:08:25.160 with other evidence. Right. OK, so let's play 00:08:25.160 --> 00:08:27.180 pretend for a minute. Let's say they do confirm 00:08:27.180 --> 00:08:30.740 this thing. What are the implications? Like, 00:08:30.740 --> 00:08:33.799 why should anyone listening care about some distant 00:08:33.799 --> 00:08:36.350 planet we can't even see? Okay, well first of 00:08:36.350 --> 00:08:38.350 all, if this is confirmed, it would be a huge 00:08:38.350 --> 00:08:40.649 deal. The first new planet discovered in our 00:08:40.649 --> 00:08:43.490 solar system in almost 200 years. The last one 00:08:43.490 --> 00:08:46.470 was Neptune, back in 1846. That's a long time. 00:08:46.529 --> 00:08:48.730 Wow, almost 200 years. So it would completely 00:08:48.730 --> 00:08:51.269 change how we understand our solar system. We've 00:08:51.269 --> 00:08:53.049 always thought there were eight planets, plus 00:08:53.049 --> 00:08:55.830 Pluto, the dwarf planet, but Planet X would show 00:08:55.830 --> 00:08:57.870 us that our picture of the solar system is incomplete, 00:08:57.870 --> 00:09:00.909 and that there's still so much to discover, even 00:09:00.909 --> 00:09:03.320 in our own cosmic backyard. And it could also 00:09:03.320 --> 00:09:05.600 change how we think about how planets form, right? 00:09:05.700 --> 00:09:07.759 The article talks about Planet X maybe being 00:09:07.759 --> 00:09:10.000 a rogue planet. Yeah, that's a really cool idea. 00:09:10.039 --> 00:09:12.580 It's weird orbit. It suggests that it might not 00:09:12.580 --> 00:09:14.639 have formed alongside the other planets in our 00:09:14.639 --> 00:09:17.019 solar system. Instead, it could have formed around 00:09:17.019 --> 00:09:19.600 another star and then been captured by our sun's 00:09:19.600 --> 00:09:22.100 gravity billions of years ago. That would be 00:09:22.100 --> 00:09:24.159 a totally different way of thinking about how 00:09:24.159 --> 00:09:26.840 solar systems come together. And what about Pluto? 00:09:27.220 --> 00:09:29.720 Could this reignite the whole debate about its 00:09:29.720 --> 00:09:33.240 status as a planet? Maybe. If we find a massive 00:09:33.240 --> 00:09:36.360 planet like planet X out there, it could make 00:09:36.360 --> 00:09:38.519 scientists rethink the definition of a planet. 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:41.080 And that could lead to, you know, more discussions 00:09:41.080 --> 00:09:43.080 about whether Pluto should be classified as a 00:09:43.080 --> 00:09:45.399 planet again. And then there's the most exciting 00:09:45.399 --> 00:09:47.740 part, the idea that if there's a hidden planet 00:09:47.740 --> 00:09:50.740 this big in our solar system... What else might 00:09:50.740 --> 00:09:52.460 be out there? Could there be other planets we 00:09:52.460 --> 00:09:54.899 haven't found yet? Maybe even ones with conditions 00:09:54.899 --> 00:09:57.559 for life. It's mind blowing, isn't it? The idea 00:09:57.559 --> 00:09:59.539 that we might have missed something this big 00:09:59.539 --> 00:10:02.559 right under our noses. It just goes to show how 00:10:02.559 --> 00:10:04.779 much we still don't know about our own cosmic 00:10:04.779 --> 00:10:07.480 neighborhood. And if this is possible in our 00:10:07.480 --> 00:10:10.779 solar system, imagine what could be lurking out 00:10:10.779 --> 00:10:13.740 there in the vastness of space. Now, the article 00:10:13.740 --> 00:10:16.700 also gets into some more, let's call them unconventional 00:10:16.700 --> 00:10:20.639 theories like. Could Planet X be affecting Earth 00:10:20.639 --> 00:10:22.320 in some way? Yeah, there are some researchers 00:10:22.320 --> 00:10:24.940 who speculate about that. They say that even 00:10:24.940 --> 00:10:27.480 though it's so far away, the gravity of Planet 00:10:27.480 --> 00:10:30.799 X could be subtly affecting Earth's orbit over 00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:34.000 really long periods of time. And that this could 00:10:34.000 --> 00:10:36.379 have some impact on things like climate change, 00:10:36.700 --> 00:10:39.799 ocean currents, even extreme weather. So like. 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:43.179 some distant cosmic force messing with our weather. 00:10:43.340 --> 00:10:44.620 It's an interesting thought, and there are even 00:10:44.620 --> 00:10:47.320 more out -there theories, like the idea that 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:49.840 Planet X's gravity could be triggering earthquakes 00:10:49.840 --> 00:10:53.080 or messing with the orbits of asteroids and comets, 00:10:53.279 --> 00:10:55.379 maybe even making them more likely to hit Earth. 00:10:55.460 --> 00:10:57.279 That sounds kind of apocalyptic, like Planet 00:10:57.279 --> 00:11:00.159 X is this hidden puppet master controlling things 00:11:00.159 --> 00:11:02.720 from afar. It does, but it's important to remember 00:11:02.720 --> 00:11:05.019 that most scientists think Planet X is just too 00:11:05.019 --> 00:11:07.059 far away to have those kinds of effects on Earth. 00:11:07.460 --> 00:11:10.100 But, you know, if we do find and might make us 00:11:10.100 --> 00:11:11.960 re -examine some of our assumptions about how 00:11:11.960 --> 00:11:14.399 gravity works in our solar system. Okay, so let's 00:11:14.399 --> 00:11:17.279 say the AI discovery holds up. What happens next? 00:11:17.679 --> 00:11:20.039 How do scientists actually confirm this thing 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:22.779 is real? Well, the article says that NASA and 00:11:22.779 --> 00:11:25.059 other scientists are racing to check the AI's 00:11:25.059 --> 00:11:27.220 data. They're using the most powerful telescopes 00:11:27.220 --> 00:11:30.460 we have to scan the area where the AI says this 00:11:30.460 --> 00:11:33.039 gravitational anomaly is. But directly seeing 00:11:33.039 --> 00:11:36.370 something that faint, that far away... That's 00:11:36.370 --> 00:11:38.129 gotta be tough. So what will they be looking 00:11:38.129 --> 00:11:40.669 for? Yeah, it's a challenge. So instead of looking 00:11:40.669 --> 00:11:43.009 for light, they're looking for the effects of 00:11:43.009 --> 00:11:46.049 Planet X's gravity. One way is by tracking the 00:11:46.049 --> 00:11:48.129 movements of objects in the Kuiper Belt, those 00:11:48.129 --> 00:11:51.090 icy bodies beyond Neptune. If those objects are 00:11:51.090 --> 00:11:53.110 wobbling or accelerating in a way that can't 00:11:53.110 --> 00:11:55.009 be explained by the gravity of the planets we 00:11:55.009 --> 00:11:57.350 know, that would be a strong sign that something 00:11:57.350 --> 00:11:59.889 big and unseen is tugging at them. Like using 00:11:59.889 --> 00:12:02.149 those little movements to trace back to the source 00:12:02.149 --> 00:12:04.950 of the gravity. Exactly. They're also using computer 00:12:04.950 --> 00:12:07.529 simulations, plugging in the AI's data to create 00:12:07.529 --> 00:12:10.629 models of Planet X's orbit. Then they can compare 00:12:10.629 --> 00:12:12.870 those models to what we actually observe in the 00:12:12.870 --> 00:12:14.850 Kuiper Belt. And of course, the ultimate goal 00:12:14.850 --> 00:12:17.470 would be to get a direct image, even if it's 00:12:17.470 --> 00:12:19.710 just a faint heat signature picked up by infrared 00:12:19.710 --> 00:12:21.990 telescopes like the James Webb. So basically, 00:12:22.230 --> 00:12:25.289 it's a race to gather more evidence to either 00:12:25.289 --> 00:12:27.850 confirm or deny what the AI has found. But even 00:12:27.850 --> 00:12:29.909 if they confirm it, the article makes it clear 00:12:29.909 --> 00:12:32.710 that there would still be So many questions about 00:12:32.710 --> 00:12:34.809 this planet. Oh, absolutely. We'd be just scratching 00:12:34.809 --> 00:12:36.509 the surface. We'd want to know, does it have 00:12:36.509 --> 00:12:39.129 moons? What's its atmosphere made of? Is it a 00:12:39.129 --> 00:12:42.409 gas giant like Uranus or Neptune? Or is it more 00:12:42.409 --> 00:12:45.230 like super Earth, rocky and frozen? And then 00:12:45.230 --> 00:12:47.690 there's that crazy orbit. How did it end up like 00:12:47.690 --> 00:12:50.350 that? What happened in its past? Yeah, it's like 00:12:50.350 --> 00:12:53.250 finding a new continent on Earth. Just knowing 00:12:53.250 --> 00:12:56.169 it's there opens up a whole new world of exploration. 00:12:56.429 --> 00:12:58.629 And the article ends with a pretty wild question. 00:12:59.080 --> 00:13:02.279 Could there be even more planets out there, beyond 00:13:02.279 --> 00:13:05.659 planet X, that AI could help us find? It's totally 00:13:05.659 --> 00:13:08.980 possible. If AI can find this, who knows what 00:13:08.980 --> 00:13:11.360 else it might uncover. Maybe our solar system 00:13:11.360 --> 00:13:13.220 is full of planets we haven't even imagined yet. 00:13:13.399 --> 00:13:15.700 It really makes you realize how much we still 00:13:15.700 --> 00:13:18.639 have to learn about space. And this discovery, 00:13:18.820 --> 00:13:21.740 if it's confirmed, it feels like a major turning 00:13:21.740 --> 00:13:24.059 point for the use of AI in space exploration. 00:13:24.240 --> 00:13:26.480 I think so, too. The article points out that 00:13:26.480 --> 00:13:29.240 AI can analyze these huge amounts of data way 00:13:29.240 --> 00:13:31.980 faster than humans can, and it can find patterns 00:13:31.980 --> 00:13:34.500 that we might miss. It's like giving astronomers 00:13:34.500 --> 00:13:37.100 a superpowered assistant. Yeah, like a cosmic 00:13:37.100 --> 00:13:40.340 detective with a super brain. Exactly. And NASA 00:13:40.340 --> 00:13:42.639 and other space agencies are already planning 00:13:42.639 --> 00:13:45.740 to use AI even more in future missions, to find 00:13:45.740 --> 00:13:48.399 new planets, maybe even Earth -like ones, to 00:13:48.399 --> 00:13:51.000 track dangerous asteroids, and maybe even to 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:53.440 help us understand signals from alien civilizations 00:13:53.519 --> 00:13:55.919 if we ever receive any. OK, so let's say they 00:13:55.919 --> 00:13:58.820 definitively confirm planet X. What happens then? 00:13:58.860 --> 00:14:01.259 What are the next steps? Well, first, they'd 00:14:01.259 --> 00:14:04.100 need rock -solid proof, probably multiple telescopes 00:14:04.100 --> 00:14:07.320 seeing it directly. Then the International Astronomical 00:14:07.320 --> 00:14:10.320 Union would have to officially classify it. Is 00:14:10.320 --> 00:14:13.340 it a planet? A new type of object? That'll be 00:14:13.340 --> 00:14:15.440 a big discussion. And then the really exciting 00:14:15.440 --> 00:14:18.500 part, could we send a spacecraft to study it? 00:14:18.639 --> 00:14:20.840 It would be amazing, but it would be a really 00:14:20.840 --> 00:14:23.779 tough mission. It's so far away that even with 00:14:23.779 --> 00:14:26.019 our best technology, it would take decades to 00:14:26.019 --> 00:14:28.159 get there. But there are people working on new 00:14:28.159 --> 00:14:30.399 types of spacecraft that could make the journey 00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:32.679 faster. And of course, we'd have to give it a 00:14:32.679 --> 00:14:34.820 name. What do you think they'll call it? I have 00:14:34.820 --> 00:14:37.299 no idea. That's always an exciting part. But 00:14:37.299 --> 00:14:39.240 one thing's for sure. The article says that if 00:14:39.240 --> 00:14:42.039 Planet X is real, we'll have to redraw all our 00:14:42.039 --> 00:14:44.639 maps of the solar system, rethink how planets 00:14:44.639 --> 00:14:47.159 form, and basically change everything we thought 00:14:47.159 --> 00:14:49.100 we knew about our place in the universe. Wow. 00:14:49.539 --> 00:14:51.409 Well... Based on everything we've talked about 00:14:51.409 --> 00:14:54.250 today, it really seems like we could be on the 00:14:54.250 --> 00:14:57.519 verge of a truly historic discovery. a new planet 00:14:57.519 --> 00:15:00.039 in our solar system, the first one in almost 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:03.100 200 years, and all thanks to the power of AI. 00:15:03.320 --> 00:15:06.259 And the implications are huge. It means we might 00:15:06.259 --> 00:15:08.720 have to rewrite our astronomy textbooks, rethink 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:11.220 how planets are born, and consider the possibility 00:15:11.220 --> 00:15:13.620 that there are many more planets out there than 00:15:13.620 --> 00:15:16.539 we ever thought, maybe even some with life. It's 00:15:16.539 --> 00:15:18.879 a truly exciting time for space exploration. 00:15:19.059 --> 00:15:21.159 And it raises so many questions. If we could 00:15:21.159 --> 00:15:24.100 miss a planet this big, What else is out there? 00:15:24.440 --> 00:15:26.299 What other secrets are waiting to be discovered? 00:15:26.720 --> 00:15:28.720 The universe is full of mysteries, and it's up 00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:31.000 to us, with the help of incredible tools like 00:15:31.000 --> 00:15:33.740 AI, to unravel them. So stay curious, folks. 00:15:34.580 --> 00:15:36.539 Who knows what mind -blowing discoveries are 00:15:36.539 --> 00:15:37.440 just around the corner?