"If we wanted characters to actually go there, in what we currently have technology-wise, they really wouldn't be alive by the time they got there," Estrin told. One such detail is its distance from Earth. "Lost in Space" showrunner Zack Estrin has saidthat the show takes into account some real-life knowledge about the Alpha Centauri star system to balance reality and fiction in the show. While it's not thought that anything like human life exists in the system, researchers recently unveiled a new space telescope mission, called TOLIMAN, to explore this stellar system further and answer some questions about its planets. However, research has shown that it might not support an Earth-like atmosphere and researchers are still working to understand more about the planet to more thoroughly assess its habitability. Scientists think that there could possibly be life at Alpha Centauri, and Proxima b is currently thought to be the most likely habitable world in the system, with its Earth-like size and distance from its star. Two of these stars are like our sun and the third is a red dwarf named Proxima Centauri, which has at least two planets orbiting around it, one of which, a planet called Proxima b, scientists think could be an Earth-sized planet that lies in the star's habitable zone (an area around a star that is at a distance where liquid water can exist). The Alpha Centauri system actually has three stars. So before even diving into the specifics of the system or its planets, no, humans can not yet go to Alpha Centauri and live there because, simply put, we wouldn't survive the trip. However, while the star system is remarkably close by cosmic standard, 4 light-years is actually quite far away and, according to some estimates, would take roughly 6,300 years to get there with existing technology. Related: Mysterious radio signal from Proxima Centauri was definitely not aliens Is Alpha Centauri habitable?Īlpha Centauri, the closest star system to Earth, is just 4 light-years away. 1) on Netflix.īut what might it actually be like for humans to not only travel to our nearby stellar neighborhood but actually live there? Season 3 of "Lost in Space" premieres today (Dec. The show sees the family journeying out to a planet in Alpha Centauri, the closest solar system to our own. In the show " Lost in Space," which got a 2018 revival on Netflix after its original iteration in the 1960s, the Space Family Robinson family pursues doing exactly that. With life on Earth facing increasing challenges as humans battle against massive problems like climate change and its ever-worsening consequences, people often wonder if humanity could possibly live on another planet. Will humans ever find themselves at home at Alpha Centauri? The double star Alpha Centauri AB appears in the image between the exoplanet and its star. This artist’s impression shows the exoplanet Proxima b, which orbits the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri.
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