[Interview] 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.🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday00:00 Intro01:29 Are there planets at Alpha Centauri08:22 How can we know they are there11:20 TOLIMAN Telescope30:04 JWST experiments37:34 Next big telescopes for planet hunting48:38 Discovering many more exoplanets51:50 Next generation of instruments59:05 Outro📺 VIDEO VERSIONhttps://youtu.be/jKDu4I0cLHE📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTERRead by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter🎧 PODCASTSUniverse Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIATwitter: https://twitter.com/fcainTwitter: https://twitter.com/universetodayFacebook: https://facebook.com/universetodayInstagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday📩 CONTACT [email protected]⚖️ LICENSECreative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast