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  1. It’s amazing what people will do. Here’s a photo of Exoplanet 13562. It looks like an edible Earth fruit. But really, it’s an exoplanet missing its atmosphere. No one knows why the air disappeared, but billions of litres of water is frozen under the blue crust. The planet is bizarrely covered with Lazurite and ancient canals are visible to the naked eye. Someone with a sense of humor, photoshopped this planet to look like a plum. Adding stem and leaves and a little nub in the end. I’m all for a joke, but it’s wrong to say a photograph is something it’s not. People who post a photo and then make up some some crazy Sci-Fi story to go along with it, should be thrown in the stocks and have rotten tomatoes tossed at them. Actually bananas, have bananas tossed at them. I like bananas. Bananas are good.

    #scifi #sci-fi #exoplanet #MicroFiction #bloomscrolling #nature #photography

  2. It’s amazing what people will do. Here’s a photo of Exoplanet 13562. It looks like an edible Earth fruit. But really, it’s an exoplanet missing its atmosphere. No one knows why the air disappeared, but billions of litres of water is frozen under the blue crust. The planet is bizarrely covered with Lazurite and ancient canals are visible to the naked eye. Someone with a sense of humor, photoshopped this planet to look like a plum. Adding stem and leaves and a little nub in the end. I’m all for a joke, but it’s wrong to say a photograph is something it’s not. People who post a photo and then make up some some crazy Sci-Fi story to go along with it, should be thrown in the stocks and have rotten tomatoes tossed at them. Actually bananas, have bananas tossed at them. I like bananas. Bananas are good.

    #scifi #sci-fi #exoplanet #MicroFiction #bloomscrolling #nature #photography

  3. It’s amazing what people will do. Here’s a photo of Exoplanet 13562. It looks like an edible Earth fruit. But really, it’s an exoplanet missing its atmosphere. No one knows why the air disappeared, but billions of litres of water is frozen under the blue crust. The planet is bizarrely covered with Lazurite and ancient canals are visible to the naked eye. Someone with a sense of humor, photoshopped this planet to look like a plum. Adding stem and leaves and a little nub in the end. I’m all for a joke, but it’s wrong to say a photograph is something it’s not. People who post a photo and then make up some some crazy Sci-Fi story to go along with it, should be thrown in the stocks and have rotten tomatoes tossed at them. Actually bananas, have bananas tossed at them. I like bananas. Bananas are good.

    #scifi #sci-fi #exoplanet #MicroFiction #bloomscrolling #nature #photography

  4. It’s amazing what people will do. Here’s a photo of Exoplanet 13562. It looks like an edible Earth fruit. But really, it’s an exoplanet missing its atmosphere. No one knows why the air disappeared, but billions of litres of water is frozen under the blue crust. The planet is bizarrely covered with Lazurite and ancient canals are visible to the naked eye. Someone with a sense of humor, photoshopped this planet to look like a plum. Adding stem and leaves and a little nub in the end. I’m all for a joke, but it’s wrong to say a photograph is something it’s not. People who post a photo and then make up some some crazy Sci-Fi story to go along with it, should be thrown in the stocks and have rotten tomatoes tossed at them. Actually bananas, have bananas tossed at them. I like bananas. Bananas are good.

    #scifi #sci-fi #exoplanet #MicroFiction #bloomscrolling #nature #photography

  5. It’s amazing what people will do. Here’s a photo of Exoplanet 13562. It looks like an edible Earth fruit. But really, it’s an exoplanet missing its atmosphere. No one knows why the air disappeared, but billions of litres of water is frozen under the blue crust. The planet is bizarrely covered with Lazurite and ancient canals are visible to the naked eye. Someone with a sense of humor, photoshopped this planet to look like a plum. Adding stem and leaves and a little nub in the end. I’m all for a joke, but it’s wrong to say a photograph is something it’s not. People who post a photo and then make up some some crazy Sci-Fi story to go along with it, should be thrown in the stocks and have rotten tomatoes tossed at them. Actually bananas, have bananas tossed at them. I like bananas. Bananas are good.

    #scifi #sci-fi #exoplanet #MicroFiction #bloomscrolling #nature #photography

  6. #MPG:
    "
    Fotos ferner Welten
    "
    "Das Roman-Weltraumteleskop soll Exoplaneten dank komplexer Opto-Mechanik vom Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie direkt abbilden"

    ".. startet das Teleskop am 30. August 2026 um 13:26 an Bord einer Falcon Heavy Rakete .."

    mpg.de/26937929/fotos-ferner-e

    26.8.2026

    #Astronomie #CGI #Exoplanet #Heidelberg #MPIA #NASA #NGRST #PAM #Raumfahrt #SpaceFlight #Weltraumteleskop #WFIRST

  7. RE: mastodon.social/@proseandpassi

    Where in #space can #planets with #atmospheres be found? C. Cherubim et al. (2026) used #nearinfraredspectroscopy to characterize a #rocky #exoplanet orbiting its host star within the #habitablezone. Planet #LHS1140b exhibits #helium #absorption in its atmosphere, a feature the authors attribute to a helium-dominated #upperatmosphericlayer.

    © #StefanFWirth, July 2026, Berlin

    Reference
    C. Cherubim et al. (2026)
    doi.org/10.1126/science.aea9708

  8. #ESO:
    "
    Lichtschwächster jemals von der Erde aus fotografierter Planet nach über zehn Jahren Versteckspiel entdeckt
    "
    ".. .Der neue Planet, Beta Pictoris d, ist einhundertmal lichtschwächer als Beta Pictoris b – der erste in diesem System entdeckte Planet – und gehört zu den masseärmsten Exoplaneten, die jemals von der Erde aus direkt abgebildet werden konnten .."

    eso.org/public/germany/news/es

    15.7.2026

    #Astronomie #BetaPictoris #BetaPictorisd #ERIS #Exoplanet #Gasriese #SPHERE #VLT

  9. 💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🪐🔭 For the first time, astronomers have detected an #atmosphere on a rocky #planet in the habitable zone of another #star.

    The super-Earth LHS 1140 b, located 50 light years away, shows signs of a #helium dominated atmosphere escaping into #space. Researchers used the WINERED #spectrograph at Las Campanas Observatory to make the ground-based #discovery.

    👉 sciencealert.com/for-the-first

    #astronomy #exoplanet #superearth #habitablezone #spectrograph #lhs1140b #science #reddwarf #harvard

  10. 16-Jul-2026
    Detected: Rocky, habitable-zone #exoplanet with an #atmosphere
    A team of astronomers has detected evidence of an atmosphere on a rocky planet orbiting in the habitable zone of its host star.

    ^^exciting #astrobiology news

    eurekalert.org/news-releases/1

    #science #rockyPlanets

  11. CW: LHS 1140 b may be our 'best bet' at finding a habitable exoplanet with ocean(s) and atmosphere

    LHS 1140 b “lives in its star's habitable zone, otherwise known as its ‘Goldilocks zone.’"
    “This is the first time we have ever seen a hint of an atmosphere on a habitable zone rocky or ice-rich exoplanet," said Ryan MacDonald, a NASA Sagan Fellow
    “the team might have even found evidence of ‘air’ on it.
    #LHS1140b #habitable #exoplanet
    space.com/james-webb-space-tel

  12. Nature Journal astronomy covers - 1995

    A planet in Pegasus?

    The feature article reports the discovery of the 1st extrasolar planet orbiting a Sun-like star, 51 Pegasi, by Michel Mayor & Didier Queloz, a discovery that will earn them the Nobel Prize in 2019

    nature.com/nature/volumes/378/

    #universe #astronomy #astrophysics #astrodon #51pegasi #planet #exoplanet #exoplanets #planethunting #nobel #prize #nobelprize #stars #nature #cover #art #coverart #covers #naturecovers #space #science #research

  13. Update on the campaign to observe the #transit of #HIP41378 f on Nov. 12. We are one day before !!!

    Main observatory statuts:
    - #Wendelstein obs. 🟢
    - #SOPHIE / #HauteProvence 🟢
    - #CARMENES / #CalarAlto 🟢
    - #MERCATOR / #LaPalma 🟢
    - #HARPS-N / #LaPalma 🟢
    - #ESPRESSO / #ESO Paranal 🟢
    - #EXPRES / #Lowell 🟢
    - #NEID / #KittPeak 🟠
    - #MINERVA / #FWLO 🟢
    - #HIRES / #MaunaKea 🟢
    - #MAROON-X / #MaunaKea 🔴
    - #SPIRou / #CFHT 🟢
    - #PARAS / #MountAbu 🟢

    #AstronomerLife #Astronomy #exoplanet