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/universetoday 00:00 Intro 01:29 Are there planets at Alpha Centauri 08:22 How can we know they are there 11:20 TOLIMAN Telescope 30:04 JWST experiments 37:34 Next big telescopes for planet hunting 48:38 Discovering many more exoplanets 51:50 Next generation of instruments 59:05 Outro 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/jKDu4I0cLHE 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)