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📰 Astronomers detect radio signals coming from an exoplanet for the first time

Exoplanets are exotic worlds orbiting distant stars far beyond our solar system.

Source: Phys.org | Read story

💬 How do you see this shaping regional diplomacy?

Découvrez Kepler-186, un système stellaire fascinant aux côtés de notre propre système solaire. 🌌✨

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From 6,366 confirmed worlds to potentially around 100,000 more: Even as a scientific projection, this illustrates the extraordinary scale that the next generation of exoplanet research could reach.
Simply unimaginable. 🤯🔭❤️
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Importantly, 100,000 #Exoplanets would not mean 100,000 habitable worlds.

But a much larger sample could help us better understand the conditions under which life might exist beyond our Solar System. 🌌❤️

#Astrobiology #Habitability #SpaceTelescope

Especially intriguing are potential #biosignatures – chemical or physical indicators that could point to biological processes.

Scientists would still need to distinguish possible biological explanations from non-biological ones.

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But the most important question is not simply:

How many new planets will be discovered?

It is also:

What will we be able to learn about these worlds? 🌌

#Exoplanets #SpaceScience #NASA #RomanSpaceTelescope

Compared with the 6,366 currently confirmed exoplanets, a projection of around 100,000 additional discoveries would represent more than 15 times the current number. 🪐

An almost unimaginable scale. 🤯

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6,366 confirmed exoplanets – and then comes this number: around 100,000 more possible worlds. 🪐😮

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could open up an entirely new scale of exoplanet research. 🔭❤️
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NASA Successfully Activates Roman Space Telescope's 300-Megapixel Infrared Camera

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👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅

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WASP-176b, a massive gas giant in Carina, endures extreme stellar flux and a hazy bloated atmosphere. Discover how this sizzling exoplanet maintains its intense radiative equilibrium!

#Exoplanets #WASP176b #CosmicOptics
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🪐 JWST hints at molecules on three planets

Webb checked 10 exoplanets and saw hints of complex molecules on three, K2-18 b, TOI-732 c and TOI-270 d, but none on the other seven. The team thinks the signals are real.

🔗 doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ae8c2d

#JWST #Exoplanets #Astronomy 🧪

WASP-181b is an extreme hot Jupiter in Capricornus, where intense radiation drives a complex atmosphere of metallic haze and thermal inversions.

#HotJupiter #Exoplanets #CosmicOptics
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I can hear the weather reporter now: "Today's temperature on Planet X is 500 degrees Kelvin, with a slight chance of acid rain near the poles and mostly ammonia-clouded skies. Good day to stay inside."

#Exoplanets #SpaceExploration #PlanetaryScience #weather

#exoplanets New lava planet paper from a collaboration I am involved in. This paper makes predictions of what kind of atmospheres we should see in our lava planet survey (P.I. Lisa Dang). Paper led by Mariana Sastre arxiv.org/abs/2609.20155 . Advised by Oxford PCDgroup alum Tim Lichtenberg.

The Roman Space Telescope's coronagraph uses a deformable mirror — actuators push and pull the surface by microscopic amounts to cancel starlight distortion. Result: planets 100 million times fainter than their star become visible.

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Name: Kepler-1772 b
A Neptune-like giant planet.
Distance from Earth: 2,843 light-years
Year discovered: 2021
Discovered by: Kepler
Planet radius: 2.686 x Earth
Orbital period: 3.22 day(s)

https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/exo/#/planet/Kepler-1772_b

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Name: K2-85 b
A potentially rocky world, larger than Earth.
Distance from Earth: 317 light-years
Year discovered: 2016
Discovered by: K2
Planet radius: 1.2 x Earth
Orbital period: 0.68 day(s)

https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/exo/#/planet/K2-85_b

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Name: HD 47366 b
A giant planet composed mainly of gas.
Distance from Earth: 275 light-years
Year discovered: 2016
Discovered by: Okayama Astrophysical Observatory
Planet mass: 731 Earths
Orbital period: 359.15 day(s)

https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/exo/#/planet/HD_47366_b

#space #exoplanets

An array of researchers at @carnegiescience.bsky.social recently celebrated the 60th anniversary of Star Trek with an evening devoted to the science of Star Trek and their own work exploring the universe …

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