#exoplanet — Public Fediverse posts

Fireworks, in space.

Or:
a peek behind the scenes of big camera with flash photographs that could be in space. But are really on earth (sorry to destroy the illusion that I don’t actually have a space ship with time travel!) This is wandering through a nature reserve that was once a farm.

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

Fireworks, in space.

Or:
a peek behind the scenes of big camera with flash photographs that could be in space. But are really on earth (sorry to destroy the illusion that I don’t actually have a space ship with time travel!) This is wandering through a nature reserve that was once a farm.

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

Fireworks, in space.

Or:
a peek behind the scenes of big camera with flash photographs that could be in space. But are really on earth (sorry to destroy the illusion that I don’t actually have a space ship with time travel!) This is wandering through a nature reserve that was once a farm.

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

Fireworks, in space.

Or:
a peek behind the scenes of big camera with flash photographs that could be in space. But are really on earth (sorry to destroy the illusion that I don’t actually have a space ship with time travel!) This is wandering through a nature reserve that was once a farm.

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

Fireworks, in space.

Or:
a peek behind the scenes of big camera with flash photographs that could be in space. But are really on earth (sorry to destroy the illusion that I don’t actually have a space ship with time travel!) This is wandering through a nature reserve that was once a farm.

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

Pandora: Tuning Up our Data on Exoplanet Atmospheres
https://atlas.whatip.xyz/post.php?slug=pandora-tuning-up-our-data-on-exoplanet-atmospheres
<p>Launching a flagship-class mission like the Roman Space Telescope is always exciting
#exoplanet #pandora #mission #tuning

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope: Official Mission Trailer

#DarkEnergy #DarkMatter #Exoplanet #NancyGraceRomanSpaceTelescope #Trailer

▶️ 1 new video from NASA (SVS) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NASA%27s_Nancy_Grace_Roman_Space_Telescope-_Official_Mission_Trailer_%28SVS15081-_Roman_Mission_Trailer_-_Long%29.webm

Significance of Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

#Coronagraph #DarkEnergy #DarkMatter #Exoplanet #HubbleSpaceTelescope #JamesWebb #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope #JWST #NancyGraceRoman #NancyGraceRomanSpaceTelescope #NGRST #NASA #Roman #RomanTelescope #WFI #WideFieldInstrument

https://www.scientificeuropean.co.uk/sciences/space/significance-of-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope/

#AIP:
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Sterneruptionen im Labor: Erster experimenteller Nachweis für deren Unterdrückung durch starke Magnetfelder
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".. Nachweis erbracht, dass starke Magnetfelder aktiver Sterne koronale Massenauswürfe vollständig unterdrücken können. .. erklärt, warum massereiche stellare Eruptionen bei Sternen viel seltener beobachtet werden als bei der Sonne. .."

https://www.aip.de/de/news/stellar-eruptions-laboratory-experiment/

21.8.2026

#Astrophysik #CME #Exoplanet #KoronalerMassenauswurf #Magnetfeld #Plasma #Simulation #Stern #Sterneruption

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
#astronomers #exoplanet #quantum #physics

#ESO:
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Lichtschwächster jemals von der Erde aus fotografierter Planet nach über zehn Jahren Versteckspiel entdeckt
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".. .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 .."

https://www.eso.org/public/germany/news/eso2609/

15.7.2026

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

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

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1135989

#science #rockyPlanets

#SciAM:
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Salty clouds discovered on pink puffball planet

A cold, cherry-blossom-hued exoplanet supports bizarre clouds chock-full of salts
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".. 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. .."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/salty-clouds-discovered-on-pink-puffball-planet/

18.6.2026

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

Wie viel Wasser braucht ein Exoplanet? Warum extrasolare Wüstenplaneten wahrscheinlich kein außerirdisches Leben haben. #Wüstenplanet #Exoplanet #Planet #Wasser #habitableZone
https://www.scinexx.de/news/kosmos/wie-viel-wasser-braucht-ein-exoplanet/

#ESO:
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Erstes Licht für PoET: Ein strahlender Auftakt für die Exoplanetenforschung
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".. Paranal Solar ESPRESSO Telescope (PoET), installiert am Paranal d. . ESO in Chile, hat .. seine ersten Beobachtungen durchgeführt. .. Teleskop wird in Kombination mit .. ESPRESSO-Instrument .. eingesetzt, um d. Sonne detailliert zu untersuchen. .. "

https://www.eso.org/public/germany/news/eso2605/

9.4.2026

#Astronomie #Chile #ESPRESSO #Exoplanet #FirstLight #Helligkeitsschwankung #Italien #Paranal #PoET #Portugal #Teleskop #VLT

Here is a problem that has been quietly gnawing at astronomers for decades.

The standard approach to detecting #life on other worlds involves scanning #exoplanet #atmospheres for #oxygen, #methane, and #ozone, whose presence is difficult to explain without #biology.

It's a clever idea, but it carries a hidden flaw. That entire shopping list was written by studying Earth. It is, inevitably, a search for life like us.

The list of ways that #chemistry alone can accidentally mimic these #biosignature gases is growing faster than the list of new ways to detect life.

Each new false positive scenario demands even more information about the #planet to rule it out, and there is a genuine question about whether that information can ever be gathered exhaustively.

But there is a solution.

#Assembly theory doesn't ask what #molecules are present in an #atmosphere. Instead, it asks how hard they were to make.

Every molecule can be assigned an assembly index, a minimum number of construction steps required to build it from basic #chemical building blocks.

Simple molecules are easy to assemble by chance, but truly complex ones, requiring many sequential steps, don't arise without something doing a great deal of deliberate selection.

That something would then be life itself.

#astrobiology #astronomy
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-life.html

Paper by Walker et al. (2026): https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.11086

#DerStandard:
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Erster Einblick in die rätselhafte Herkunft von Supererden und Sub-Neptunen
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"Obwohl sie die häufigste Planetenklasse der Galaxie darstellen, war ihre Genese bisher unklar. Ein junges System in rund 350 Lichtjahren Entfernung liefert nun erstmals Antworten"

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000303239/erster-einblick-auf-die-raetselhafte-herkunft-von-supererden-und-sub-neptunen

8.1.2026

#Astronomie #Astrophysik #Atmosphäre #Exoplanet #Planetenentstehung #Planetologie #SubNeptun #Supererde #Transitmethode #V1298Tau

Astronomen finden nahe, lebensfreundliche Supererde. 18 Lichtjahre entfernter Exoplanet liegt genau in der habitablen Zone seines Sterns. #Supererde #Exoplanet #Astronomie #GJ251c #habitableZone
https://www.scinexx.de/news/kosmos/nahe-lebensfreundliche-supererde-entdeckt/

James Webb Telescope captured the first direct image of a Saturn-mass exoplanet
https://newstainmentora.blogspot.com/2025/06/james-webb-telescope-captured-first.html
#jameswebbtelescope #saturn #saturnmassexoplanet #exoplanet #planet #universe #Space

Great, interesting study!😊😀
"Multiscale astrobiology with the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time"
https://frontiersin.org/journals/astronomy-and-space-sciences/articles/10.3389/fspas.2025.1594485/full
#Astrobiology #RubinObservatory #science #Exoplanet #Biosignature #life #universe #LSST

The recent claims of #biosignature detection in the atmosphere of #exoplanet K2-18b does not convince anyone.

A new paper demonstrates that other non-biological interpretations can also explain the data.

Reanalysing the dataset used in the original biosignature detection paper through multiple other models reveals good fits for models that abiological processes could entirely explain.

One particular model that included the hydrocarbon propyne fit the data better than the model containing DMS and its cousin, dimethyl disulfide (DMDS), which was interpreted as biosignature detection April.

#astronomy #exoplanets
https://phys.org/news/2025-05-ways-atmosphere-k2-18b.html

Hackaday Links: April 20, 2025 https://hackaday.com/2025/04/20/hackaday-links-april-20-2025/ #vegetativeelectronmicroscopy #HackadayColumns #scientificfraud #Hackadaylinks #hackadaylinks #siliconvalley #biosignature #antikythera #Zuckerberg #crosswalk #deep-fake #exoplanet #JamesWebb #citation #PaloAlto #Slider #K2-18b #Kepler #tooth #DMDS #gear #jwst #Musk #DMS

Hackaday Links: April 20, 2025 - We appear to be edging ever closer to a solid statement of “We are not alone” in t... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/20/hackaday-links-april-20-2025/ #vegetativeelectronmicroscopy #hackadaycolumns #scientificfraud #hackadaylinks #siliconvalley #biosignature #antikythera #zuckerberg #crosswalk #deep-fake #exoplanet #jameswebb #citation #paloalto #slider #k2-18b #kepler #tooth #dmds #gear #jwst #musk #dms

Here the red dwarf #K2-18 photographed last night 17th April 2025 from observatory Y71 Makroskooppi. The Webb telescope has detected possible #biosignature signal of dimethyl sulfide/DMS/DMDS gas in the atmosphere of the super-Earth-sized #exoplanet #K2-18b orbiting it.

The star K2-18 is located under the constellation Leo. In this image, there is a field of view around the star about the size of the moon, the brighter star to the right of K2-18 is HIP 56079 with a brightness of 6.7mag.

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible #biosignature outside the solar system, although they remain cautious.

They have detected the chemical fingerprints of dimethyl sulfide and/or dimethyl disulfide, in the #atmosphere of the #exoplanet K2-18b, which orbits its star in the #habitable zone.

On Earth, theyare only produced by #life, primarily microbial life such as marine phytoplankton.

#astronomy #astrobiology
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/strongest-hints-of-biological-activity

So far today, every news report I've read about #exoplanet K2-18b has got its size and distance wrong, and has described the #biosignature chemicals DMS and DMDS as gases (on Earth, they're both colourless, flammable liquids).

It makes you wonder how accurate all the other stories on the news are...

https://science.nasa.gov/exoplanet-catalog/k2-18-b/

Lebensfreundliche Supererde um nahe Sonne. 20 Lichtjahre entfernter Exoplanet kreist in der habitablen Zone seines sonnenähnlichen Sterns. #Exoplanet #Supererde #HD20794d #Planet #Astronomie #habitableZone
https://www.scinexx.de/news/kosmos/lebensfreundliche-supererde-um-nahe-sonne-entdeckt/

#UniBE:
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Die heissen Jupiter ziehen ihre Bahnen nicht allein
Heisse Jupiter sind Riesenplaneten, v. denen bisher angenommen wurde, dass sie im jeweiligen Planetensystem alleine in der Nähe ihres Sterns kreisen.
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".. Planetensystem mit einer unerwarteten Architektur entdeckt: WASP-132 enthält nicht nur .. heissen Jupiter, sondern auch .. Supererde .."

https://mediarelations.unibe.ch/medienmitteilungen/2025/medienmitteilungen_2025/die_heissen_jupiter_ziehen_ihre_bahnen_nicht_allein/index_ger.html

15.1.2025

#Astronomie #EulerTeleskop #Exoplanet #Gaia #HeisserJupiter #LaSilla #Planetologie #Supererde #TESS #WASP132

#Astronauts
Landing on the #Exoplanet #Mesklin
It sounded like he said the astronaut landed on mescalin.
#Observer #POV

Anyway. #thinkaboutthis @alexskolnick

There isn't a popular #MedicalScience focused on people who had #brainDamage, experienced a #recovery, and experience #IQ on overdrive.

It's noticeable if you haven't had that for a while. Like realizing there's no longer pain, after taking #glucosamine for a while. That-- at least-- is remarkable.

Why is there #nothing on TV but #politics #racism and the #wealthy #rich #wealth #exhibitionists

I put this #SpaceScience channel on. That's good. What else can I learn? Did you ever notice that? There is nothing about how to #solider or test #amperage
Why?
That's is #oldtechnology
What year is the advent of the #transistor? @AceArsenault

In retrospect, I noticed it when I was young but more interested in #guitar #wizardry than whatever they were doing on #FullHouse

Makes sense now, in #perspective
No wonder I never watched TV.
#epiphany

I want to write more about that, but I have other things to do. There's simply not enough #time

#ineedhelp #navigating it

Anyone?
@Catweazle https://youtu.be/_SfeQa5FEVE?si=b98x1-mCxFSfcoXr&t=43

#Roland #JDXi

"If you can teraform another planet, you can save our own."
#JohnMastodon #TTJ

#Climate #Teraform #Mars #Venus #Exoplanet

Ursache der Exoplaneten-Lücke geklärt? Jungplaneten liefern Hinweis auf nachträgliches "Schrumpfen" von gasreichen Zwergen. #Exoplanet #SubNeptun #Supererde #Planeten #Hyaden #Astronomie
https://www.scinexx.de/news/kosmos/ursache-der-exoplaneten-luecke-geklaert/

The Skeptics Guide #950 - Sep 23 2023
THE SKEPTICS' GUIDE TO THE UNIVERSE ⋅ News Items: CAR-T Therapy, Martian Life, Oldest Wooden Structure, Mexican Alien Bodies, Signature of Life Found on Exoplanet; Who's That Noisy; Science or Fiction - https://overcast.fm/+LcDB2n3hw #SGU #SkepticsGuide #exoplanet #MexicanAliens #MartianLife #ScienceOrFiction #science #skepticism #ScientificSkepticism

🤗🥳We are very happy to announce that Frank Eisenhauer starts as a new Director at #MPE! With #SINFONI, #GRAVITY & #GRAVITY+, Eisenhauer is building first-class instruments which led to outstanding results in #BlackHole, #GalacticCenter, #Exoplanet & #GalaxyFormation science!
➡https://www.mpe.mpg.de/7948075/news20230515