Could planets from Star Trek TNG really exist?

Описание: Space. The final frontier. Full of Californian planets. Watch Dr Wakeford and I discuss the physics of Kraofewd on Nebula (link updated March 2023): https://nebula.tv/videos/simon-clark-...

In this video Dr Hannah and I go through every planet featured in Star Trek The Next Generation to establish which ones could really exist. Fortunately for us the vast, vast majority of the planets shown on screen are actually really dull, leaving just a handful that we can sink our teeth into.

Oh, and we show you our own episode of the show, featuring a planet you've never seen before....

-- Links to my talented friends --
Lizzie Fijalkowski   / lizziefij  
Hannah Wakeford https://stellarplanet.org/

-- Previous planets videos --
Star Wars    • Could planets from Star Wars really exist?  
The MCU    • Which MCU Planets Could Really Exist?  
Warhammer 40k    • Which planets in Warhammer 40k could reall...  

REFERENCES
1. This is a rough estimate using http://exoplanet.eu/
2. For a fascinating resource, see https://neutrinos.fnal.gov/history/
3. Tom Scott's video:    • Why sci-fi alien planets all look the same  
4. https://arxiv.org/abs/1708.02981
5. For notes on this see https://www.e-education.psu.edu/meteo...
6. https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/so...
7.    • Where does the atmosphere stop?  
8. See e.g. https://sci.esa.int/documents/33745/3...
9. https://www.nature.com/articles/355145a0
10. https://www.newscientist.com/article/...
11. https://www.nature.com/articles/378355a0
12. https://science.sciencemag.org/conten...
13. https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata...

Scientists review planets! Hannah Wakeford and Simon Clark use their PhDs in exoplanetary science and atmospheric physics to review every planet shown in Star Trek The Next Generation. Star Trek TNG is one of my favourite TV series ever, and one of the great sci fi TV shows, but some of its planets are very boring. So boring that we created our own episode to show them how it's done!

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