The Most Habitable Planet We've Ever Found? The Case for GJ 1061 D (“PULSE”)

The galaxy is said to be a place mostly devoid of habitable worlds, with planets like Earth being rare. But what if that’s not the case? This video is part of Season 1 to explore our universe and the conditions that give rise to life! 🔸 TLDR; - Habitable zones should incorporate a metabolic habitability. - Tidal heating is critical to determine actual habitability. - The time when something BECOMES habitable matters! 🔸 Stellaris Mod Files: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3787009856 🔸 Want to Dive Deeper? I’m building The Deepwell, a hard sci-fi universe where we test these ideas together. Want to help? Join the Discord or the Patreon to get early access to lore, vote on what we explore next, collaborate on alien species, cultures, and tech. The Deepwell is a collaborative hard sci-fi setting built on real physics and is copyright to Vav with Simbiotics LLC. Debate, share ideas, and help build the universe! 🔸 Join the Deepwell on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/c/TheDeepwellwithVav 🔸 Discord: https://discord.gg/D6uvDRUfUR 🔸 Socials: https://www.deviantart.com/vav-thedeepwell | https://www.reddit.com/user/Vav-TheDeepwell/ | https://bsky.app/profile/vav-thedeepwell.bsky.social] Written and presented by Vav with content belonging to Simbiotics LLC. 🔸 PROGRAMS USED ►RHEA-Builder: https://kirowilber.itch.io/rhea-builder ►GLEBA: https://calandiel.itch.io/gleba ►ExoPlaSim: https://github.com/alphaparrot/ExoPlaSim ►World Climate Lab: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4875150/World_Climate_Lab/ 🔸 REFERENCES ►"Cosmic Evolution Project" by Jen Yost and Bob Field (2026) https://evolution.calpoly.edu/eras ►"A cnidarian parasite of salmon (Myxozoa: Henneguya) lacks a mitochondrial genome" Dayana Yahalomi et al (2020) https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.1909907117 ►"Anaerobic Metazoans: NO longer an oxymoron" by Lisa A Levin (2010) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/1741-7007-8-31 ►"Signatures of early microbial life from the Archean (4 to 2.5 Ga) eon" by Kevin Lepot (2020) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012825220303421#s0310 ►"The lost oceans of Venus" by Richard C. Ghail et al (2026) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X2600436X ►"Endogenous CO2 ice mixture on the surface of Europa and no detection of plume activity" G. L. Villanueva et al (2023): https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg4270 ****(SEE REMAINING REFERENCES IN DESCRIPTION!!)**** 🔸 MUSIC Music licensed by https://www.youtube.com/@alkakrab Alkakrab, with license purchased from artist via asset pack (610+ Tracks Mega Music Bundle [No AI] by alkakrab- https://alkakrab.itch.io/270bundle). Per license, "Commercial Use Allowed - including monetized games, apps, and YouTube videos, regardless of income or audience size. Permitted Uses: Video games, YouTube, Twitch, Kick & etc. videos / streams--" The followings songs by Alkakrab are used in accoradance with that license: Wild Forest Alien Archive Ambient 1 Duskwind Ambient 7 Deep Waters Strange Forest Elder Land Magical Swamp Squirrels Magical Quest Aurora Dreams Echoes of Extinction Alien Artifact Void Voyager Nebula Dreams Westward Winds "The Other Edge Of The Sky" ending song by Glimmercat commissioned by Vav - find him here merryjest.bandcamp.com. Character art of Vav by Itto (https://linktr.ee/itto0212). Ending scene by Vav. Scene animation by Danwolfe (https://ko-fi.com/danwolfe/commissions). Character pixel animation by Tarkaris (https://x.com/Tarkaris1). All remaining art by Vav. Tag spam: #GJ 1061 d #superhabitable planet #exoplanets #habitableplanets exoplanets #rare earth hypothesis #tidally locked planet #red dwarf planets #m dwarf habitability #proximacentaurib centauri b #teegarden's star b #gj 1002 b #deepwell #vav #spacescience documentary #science communication #worldbuilding #astrobiology #life on other planets #aliens life #hydrothermalvent vents #extraterrestrial life #planetaryscience habitability #habitablezone zone #exoplanetresearch classification #super earth #oceanlife world #tidalenergy heating #panspermia #europa enceladus