What a Generation Ship's Crew Would Experience On The 1,250 Year Journey To Teegarden's Star

Hey guys! We’re now live on Spotify🎧 Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/show/033fToV... Twelve and a half light-years away, a red star older than the Sun is circled by a world that receives almost exactly Earth's light, yet no one has ever seen it. Its planets are known only by the slow sway of their star. A generation ship bound there would carry fifty generations through the Sun's long tail and a dark where the destination stays invisible. And this faint star holds a quiet connection to Earth. What is it, and why would it be gone by the time the ship arrives? CHAPTERS 0:00 Introduction 1:27 The Smallest Star in Aries 14:47 Three Worlds Known Only by a Wobble 28:13 The Ship and the Year of Leaving 41:33 Out Through the Tail 54:40 The Machine That Must Not Stop 1:08:25 Fifty Generations 1:21:54 The Long Silence 1:36:02 A Star That Will Not Brighten 1:49:18 Braking Into a Quiet System 2:02:51 What Waits at Teegarden b SOURCES Teegarden's Star revisited: a nearby planetary system with at least three planets (A&A) — https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/ful... Teegarden's Star revisited (arXiv) — https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.00923v1 Coronal and chromospheric activity of Teegarden's star (A&A) — https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/ful... Coronal and chromospheric activity of Teegarden's star (IAC) — https://www.iac.es/en/science-and-tec... The CARMENES search: two temperate Earth-mass planets around Teegarden's Star (A&A) — https://digibug.ugr.es/bitstream/hand... Earth-sized planets in the habitable zone of Teegarden's Star (EarthSky) — https://earthsky.org/space/earth-size... Habitable Planet Reality Check: The Earth-Size Planets of Teegarden's Star (Drew Ex Machina) — https://www.drewexmachina.com/2019/06... CARMENES: Two Habitable Zone Planets Around a Nearby Red Dwarf (Centauri Dreams) — https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2019/... Alien planet hunters in hundreds of nearby star systems could spot Earth (NPR) — https://www.wlrn.org/2021-06-23/alien... Our Solar System Has a Tail Shaped Like a Four-Leaf Clover (Universe Today) — https://www.universetoday.com/article... Minimum crew for a generation ship (Universe Today) — https://www.universetoday.com/139456/... The interaction of relativistic spacecrafts with the interstellar medium (arXiv) — https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.05284v1 Combining Magnetic and Electric Sails for Interstellar Deceleration (arXiv) — https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.03015 Radiation Measurements During Trip From Earth to Mars (NASA) — https://pds-rings.seti.org/press_rele... Voyager Interstellar Mission (NASA JPL) — https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/interstellar... #TeegardensStar #GenerationShip