#exoplanet — Public Fediverse posts
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(((version 02: same photo, same planet, different story….)))
Looking down on the skeletal remains of tree roots on Exoplanet 67393. I spent a beautiful day wandering around the remains of these trees. This planet, when it was blossoming into a planet with intelligent life, (that is, we think, there were a few things in the ocean who almost had a brain) was hit by an asteroid that must have been huge. Rather than, like on earth, wiping out the dinosaurs and allowing some tiny mammals to thrive, this one wiped out everything. Creating a dead planet where nothing, not even microbes, could live. These huge tree root have been sitting here for millions of years, and they are not petrified, they are exactly as they were, because there is nothing to break them down. There is something beautifully haunting about wandering, cemetery like, through abandoned things. -
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Looking down on the skeletal remains of tree roots on Exoplanet 67393. A day sitting on my ship, with that weight on me. That deep weight of the horrible worlds that takes so much effort to stand up against. The world below me is barren and lifeless. There is no one to blame for this. When life was just getting a foothold it was struck by an asteroid that was so large it changed the composition of this planet, killing everything. Even the microbes that make life. There are only a few places where there is a fleeting glimpse that there was once life on this planet. This is one of those glimpses. A photo taken from space, of tree roots that are millions of years old, but they are not petrified, they are exactly as they were when they died. There is nothing to break them down. No life at all. I could go down and visit this planet, but today, and maybe tomorrow, I’ll just curl up with my book, and maybe not have this weight soon. -
Beside Exoplanet 73547 there is a dust cloud orbiting where the fifth planet should be, or, technically, I guess it could be called an asteroid belt. Unlike the one surrounding earth, this one is made up of billions and billions of lumps of iron usually the size of a tennis ball. We don’t why this happened, but scientists are working on it. Anyway, because there is no oxygen in space, and the iron has, unaccountability, not been covered in dust, it’s shiny. The indigenous population on this planet looked up at the night sky and saw a sparkling flowing river. It became the central concept of their religion, moving on the night sky river from birth to death. Once they invented telescopes and spectrometers and found that it was just iron, some felt the romance had disappeared, but some felt it was even more beautiful.
#scifi #exoplanet #MicroFiction #bloomscrolling #nature #photography
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Active supermassive black holes may help form massive planets https://phys.org/news/2026-08-supermassive-black-holes-massive-planets.html 🪐 #Exoplanet #Exoplanets #AlienWorlds #AlienLife #Extraterrestrials #Space #Science #SolarSystem #Astrobiology
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The abandoned war cannons of Exoplanet 69746. Because there’s almost no iron on the surface of this planet, these cannons are grown from local flora. The cannons live for a few months, then pushed aside as a new one grows in its place. This is the famous battlefield of Agellus, that is now a nature preserve where the cannons are traditionally grown as a reminder of the past.
#scifi #exoplanet #MicroFiction #bloomscrolling #nature #photography
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Yes its astounding. Probably a majority of discovered exoplanets are very close to their stars. Because to be discovered, an exoplanet has to pass between its star and our cameras, a dip in that stars brightness.
Amazing Universe.
Thanks for making these posts.
They are like bouquets of flowers to me.
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We might soon have the technology to reach other star systems https://phys.org/news/2026-08-technology-star.html 🪐 #Exoplanet #Exoplanets #AlienWorlds #AlienLife #Extraterrestrials #Space #Science #SolarSystem #Astrobiology #SpaceExploration
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On Exoplanet 56373 there is an animal that evolved to look exactly like a woolly mammoth. Every once in a while there is a strange occurrence when this animal dies. If the conditions are exactly correct, a local tree infuses itself into the body of the animal and replaces all the cells of the animal with those of the tree. Similar to a tree getting petrified, but rather than taking millions of years, this can take days. Researchers are still studying the phenom, but it’s difficult because the tree/animals are a place of reverence, and cutting out a part of the tree/animal is frowned upon. Anyway, here is a photo of the eye of a woolly mammoth who has been fossilised by a tree.
#scifi #exoplanet #MicroFiction #forest #nature #photography
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Why #NuclearReactions on an #Exoplanet won’t imply #AlienLife : Medium
#Scientists’ Side #Hustle? Using #AI and #QuantumComputing to Generate New #Peptides : WIRED
Rare #Contagious #Cancer #Discovered in #Wild #Catfish : Nature
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Scientists Detect Potential Atmosphere on Super-Earth in Habitable Zone
📰 Original title: In a First, 'Super-Earth' Planet Shows It Could Have an Atmosphere
🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
👥 Users: It's clickbait ⚠️View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/scientists-detect-potential-atmosphere-on-super-earth-in-habitable-zone.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world
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Giant Alien World Found Hiding in Plain Sight for 11 Years
https://scitechdaily.com/giant-alien-world-found-hiding-in-plain-sight-for-11-years/
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I found this is floating between Exoplanet 74637 and 74638. I don’t know what it is, the spaceship computer doesn’t know what it is.
I want to wait here to find out what hatches. Will it be flora or fauna? Horror or friendly?
I want to know. I want to wait. But no, I’ll leave it there, to gently float in the middle of space, to live it’s own life, and maybe one day, in two years, or two thousand years, we will meet something new, and that will be good.#scifi #exoplanet #MicroFiction #bloomscrolling #nature #photography
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Quantum Imaging Method Could Spot Earth-Like Planets Hidden in Starlight
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Time-evolution models lift degeneracies in exoplanet atmosphere retrievals
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https://1ban.news/exoplanet-evolutionary-bayesian-retrievals/
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Quantum Physics Could Help Us Find Earth 2.0
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=quantum-physics-could-help-us-find-earth-20
<p>When astronomers talk about directly imaging an exoplanet that is orbiting a far away star
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On Exoplanet 74643 there is an animal that is yellow, has twin antennae and six legs. But I would describe as a rabbit, because it’s cute and fuzzy and hops (using the middle legs) and is a herbivore. As per the universe, there is a carnivore that preys on the Luteous. But it has a unique defence mechanism. There is an abnormally large flower that the carnivore cannot climb, so the Luteous spends its time sleeping in this flower. As you can see from this photo, there is a pair of antennae just visible in the middle of the flower, which is the Luteous sleeping.
#scifi #exoplanet #MicroFiction #bloomscrolling #nature #photography
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New images reveal #Betelgeuse’s buddy #star
Borrowing imaging techniques from #exoplanet hunters, the team captured the dim light of the smaller star amid the light of the huge one. The resulting images are the most definitive detection of Betelgeuse’s buddy yet, the team reports in a paper to appear in #Astronomy & #Astrophysics, an ordinary star orbiting the famed supergiant.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-images-betelgeuse-star
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White Paper Makes the Case for a European Exoplanet Interferometer
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Working on The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope - Long Exposure Timelapses
#Cleanroom #Exoplanet #ExoplanetAtmospheres #NancyGraceRomanSpaceTelescope #Spectrum #TimeLapse
⏩ 2 new pictures and 2 new videos from NASA (SVS) https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?search=incategory%3A%22NASA+SVS+files+uploaded+by+OptimusPrimeBot%22&sort=create_timestamp_desc&ns6=1
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The now defunct space station circling Exoplanet 93836. This is the first space station they created. It was partially grown, and partially constructed, by a consortium of eight clans. The domes opened and closed with a flowering effect, so they could study this strange new galaxy at their doorstep during the day, and sleep at night. Once it became obsolete, they moved it into a stable orbit, so it would eternally circle their planet, as a symbol of working together, despite the petty wars still flaring on the planet.
#scifi #exoplanet #MicroFiction #bloomscrolling #nature #photography
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Are Aliens Harvesting the Spin of Stars? https://www.universetoday.com/articles/are-aliens-harvesting-the-spin-of-stars 🪐 #Exoplanet #Exoplanets #AlienWorlds #AlienLife #Extraterrestrials #Space #Science #SolarSystem #Astrobiology