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  1. I dream of humanity expanding beyond our star system. However, even with all that optimism, we're still about 500 years away from any reliable 2-way trip to and from Alpha Centauri.

    Even if we develop antimatter propulsion at scale, it would still take a century of refinement to make it viable for interstellar travel.

    x.com/PhilipJohnston/status/20

    #interstellar #antimatter #Technology #exoplanet

  2. I dream of humanity expanding beyond our star system. However, even with all that optimism, we're still about 500 years away from any reliable 2-way trip to and from Alpha Centauri.

    Even if we develop antimatter propulsion at scale, it would still take a century of refinement to make it viable for interstellar travel.

    x.com/PhilipJohnston/status/20

  3. I dream of humanity expanding beyond our star system. However, even with all that optimism, we're still about 500 years away from any reliable 2-way trip to and from Alpha Centauri.

    Even if we develop antimatter propulsion at scale, it would still take a century of refinement to make it viable for interstellar travel.

    x.com/PhilipJohnston/status/20

    #interstellar #antimatter #Technology #exoplanet

  4. #SciAM:
    "
    Salty clouds discovered on pink puffball planet

    A cold, cherry-blossom-hued exoplanet supports bizarre clouds chock-full of salts
    "
    ".. GJ504b might not actually be a planet at all; it’s about 25 times the mass of Jupiter,.. .. used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to capture the dim light emanating from the object. .."

    scientificamerican.com/article

    18.6.2026

    #Astronomie #astronomy #BraunerZwerg #BrownDwarf #Exoplanet #Gasriese #GJ504b #JWST #PinkPlanet #salt #Salz #Weltraumteleskop

  5. Discovery of the first #Exoplanet Candidate outside our Home #Galaxy #milkyway |. Discovery of the first exoplanet candidate in X-ray #binary M51-ULS-1 in the #spiral galaxy #Messier 51 (M51), also called the #WhirlpoolGalaxy using transit technique by observing dips in brightness at X-ray wavelengths....

    scientificeuropean.co.uk/scien