Searching for Habitable Planets at Alpha Centauri with the TOLIMAN Mission

We know about thousands of exoplanets by now. But it's still a mystery, whether there are planets in the Alpha Centauri binary system, which is just next door to us. My guest today, Professor Peter Tuthill, is the Mission Leader for the TOLIMAN Telescope mission, which is designed to find those answers.

00:00 Intro

01:29 Are there planets at Alpha Centauri

08:22 How can we know they are there

11:20 TOLIMAN Telescope

30:04 JWST experiments

37:34 Next big telescopes for planet hunting

48:38 Discovering many more exoplanets

51:50 Next generation of instruments

59:05 Outro

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