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TRAPPIST-1's seven worlds headline Astrum Extra's exoplanet compilation

Alex McColgan's long tour of alien planets passed 200,000 views in five days, with Enceladus and Perseverance close behind on the shelf.

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These Exoplanet Discoveries Could Change Everything

"These Exoplanet Discoveries Could Change Everything" is a long Astrum compilation about worlds around other stars, posted on Astrum Extra, the side channel where the space team behind Astrum puts its longer cuts, sleep-friendly playlists and anything that does not fit the main channel. The tour runs from the latest exoplanet finds to the strangest planets ever detected, and ends on the question the description puts plainly: could life exist in the TRAPPIST-1 system, home to the most Earth-like planets found so far?

It was the only upload of the week, and it did not need company. Five days in, it has passed 200,000 views and is the quickest mover on the shelf. Two September compilations keep it busy, though: a look at the hidden ocean of Saturn's moon Enceladus is still drawing a steady crowd at twelve days old, and the Perseverance rover's Mars discoveries, now close to a million and a half views, keep ticking along.

The comments read like a bedtime ritual. Many viewers say Alex McColgan's voice sends them to sleep, and one admits to watching twice, once at night and again in the morning to catch what they missed. Others pitch ideas, among them a video about what aliens in the TRAPPIST system would see of Earth, given that the light reaching them left here around 1986. Another wants to know whether the team has thought about life built on something other than water.

The channel ran a little above its usual pace and picked up about 2,000 subscribers. Among the science channels nearest its size it sits in the middle by subscribers, yet no one gathered more views over the seven days. Bizarre Beasts had the other notable week, running well past its own usual pace.

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What viewers say

Alex McColgans voice is like a sleeping pill, 11pm off goes the light, on goes Astrum and I go out like the light.
Best thing for him is, he gets two views because I have to watch again in the morning!❤
@AndyGlazsSee it on YouTube
Video idea: What would a life form find if they were probing Earth from the TRAPPIST system with their telescopes, as we are?

Since it's about 40 light-years away, they'd be seeing Earth as it was in 1986! 🔭🤔💡
@adamdobson7291See it on YouTube
I was like “why is the sound so terrible” but I was muffling it with my blanket. So relaxing to explore space from my bed. ^^
@letsnotgetstressed8552See it on YouTube

4 more comments

Every new exoplanet makes the universe feel less empty… while somehow making the silence from everywhere else even stranger 😅
@SleepyScienceMysteries-n5dSee it on YouTube
Astrum: something something reddwarf something reddwarf
My brain: "🎵 It's cold outside, there's no kind of atmosphere..."
@mildpigeonSee it on YouTube
Something I must ask and know: How much has the Astrum team considered potential types of life that use primary solvents other than water?
@Drifting_DailySee it on YouTube
We should look after G Stars!
@FadingVitalsSee it on YouTube

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The videos drawing views on Astrum Extra right now

Are We Close to Finding Alien Life on Saturn's Moon Enceladus?713,522 views

Perseverance Made the Biggest Ever Discovery on Mars1,445,351 views

The facts

Channel: Astrum Extra
Subscribers: 326,000 ▲ 2,000 this week
Channel views, last 7 days: 1,543,590
Videos published this week: 1
Video published: October 4, 2026
Video views so far: 213,895
Views on its first day: 80,779

The numbers

Here is how Astrum Extra's week looks in figures.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

1,543,590

390,121

243,126

216,536

198,080

169,854

118,069

109,006

76,580

subscribers

326,000

▲ 2,000 in the last 7 days

total views

81,933,695

views per day

247,616

typical day: 210,310

first-day views of each video posted this week

These Exoplanet Discoveries Could Chang…

80,779

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

448,000

399,000

392,000

334,000

326,000

299,000

285,000

257,000

255,000

As of October 9, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

💡 Test your knowledge

Enceladus, the subject of another busy Astrum Extra compilation, is a moon of which planet?