The Closest Alien Planets

As the James Webb telescope becomes operational, we'll soon start receiving more data than ever before on the exoplanets nearest to us. The only problem is.... what ARE the exoplanets nearest to us? Today we're taking a look at our closest neighbors to see what our chances of finding alien life are close to home. Support me on Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/atlaspro Follow me on twitter @theatlaspro Select music from: https://soundcloud.com/atlas-pro-music "Silver Flame" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ "Deliberate Thought" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Sources / Further Reading https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/nearest-exoplanet-to-our-solar-system https://www.space.com/17470-neptune-moon-triton-subsurface-ocean.html https://esahubble.org/videos/archive/category/jwst/ https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/alien-worlds/ways-to-find-a-planet/#/1 http://astrobiology.com/2019/12/simulations-of-water-vapor-and-clouds-on-rapidly-rotating-and-tidally-locked-planets-a-3d-model-inte.html https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3894/JAMES.2010.2.13 http://astrobiology.com/2019/10/no-snowball-on-habitable-tidally-locked-planets-with-a-dynamic-ocean.html https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/203650/how-do-you-map-the-climates-and-biomes-on-a-tidally-locked-planet-with-no-coriol https://www.nas.nasa.gov/SC19/demos/demo30.html https://climate-dynamics.org/videos/tidally-locked-earth/ https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1315215111 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1405.1025.pdf