[He pressed his lips together into a thin line, a little disappointed, but nodded.]

I attempted to match the constellations visible from the observation deck to any known star systems. [He pauses a moment and decides he needs to clarify.] Any star systems recorded by Earth scientists in the year 2038 where I'm from.

[Basically, this place wasn't anywhere that he knew of either.]

Based on your experience, do you have any predictions regarding the planet based on what we can see of it?