Calculator shows travel time to planet outside solar system [Video]

How long would it take to travel to the nearest planet to us that could support human life — and, more importantly, how many books and movies would you need to bring with you?

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These are some of the questions being explored by the Exoplanet Travel Calculator, an online tool scientists have put together to help us envision what interplanetary travel would actually look like.

“It’s two years since James Webb telescope launched and it’s found lots of exoplanets … we thought ‘OK, we can observe them, wouldn’t it be great if we could go there?’ So how much time would that take to get there?” Steven Wooding, a physicist and one of the creators of the calculator, told CTVNews.ca in a phone interview.

“So, we can calculate how long it would take you to get there. …