Name: Kepler-1809 b
A potentially rocky world, larger than Earth.
Distance from Earth: 1,336 light-years
Year discovered: 2021
Discovered by: Kepler
Planet radius: 1.513 x Earth
Orbital period: 3.76 day(s)

https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/exo/#/planet/Kepler-1809_b

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Astronomers discover first green star and the reddest star ever recorded #Science #Space #Exoplanets #greenstar #reddeststar #whitedwarfs #stellarcolors #astronomydiscovery

https://purescience.news/read?id=236502726261866496

Name: HD 62549 b
A giant planet composed mainly of gas.
Distance from Earth: 161 light-years
Year discovered: 2022
Discovered by: Multiple Observatories
Planet mass: 2,708 Earths
Orbital period: 14306.89 day(s)

https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/exo/#/planet/HD_62549_b

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Name: Kepler-1950 b
A potentially rocky world, larger than Earth.
Distance from Earth: 2,274 light-years
Year discovered: 2021
Discovered by: Kepler
Planet radius: 1.527 x Earth
Orbital period: 10.78 day(s)

https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/exo/#/planet/Kepler-1950_b

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Name: K2-243 c
A potentially rocky world, larger than Earth.
Distance from Earth: 870 light-years
Year discovered: 2018
Discovered by: K2
Planet radius: 2.01 x Earth
Orbital period: 24.95 day(s)
Equilibrium temperature: 801° K

https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/exo/#/planet/K2-243_c

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Pretty neat: using time-resolved spectra of an exoplanet transit, you can get temperatures and composition as a function of planet longitude. Another way to look at the 3D structure of Hot Jupiter atmospheres, thanks to JWST.

@lili-alderson.bsky.social+ arxiv.org/abs/2610.18806
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Posted to arXiv last month and submitted to The Astrophysical Journal, work led by PhD student Emma Postolec: 🌋

"Evolutionary pathways toward survival of a thick CO2- or SO2-rich atmosphere on the lava world TOI-561 b"

Read: https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.03144

#Exoplanets #PlanetaryScience

🌍 Could There Be Planets Better Than Earth for Life?
Scientists are exploring the possibility of superhabitable planets—worlds that could offer more favorable conditions for life than our own planet.
Read More🔭 kumdi.com/science/supe...
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Name: Kepler-56 d
A giant planet composed mainly of gas.
Distance from Earth: 2,978 light-years
Year discovered: 2016
Discovered by: Multiple Observatories
Planet mass: 1,784 Earths
Orbital period: 1002.00 day(s)

https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/exo/#/planet/Kepler-56_d

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Découvrez le système Kepler-62, où des mondes potentiellement habitables dansent autour de leur étoile. 🌌✨

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Name: HD 206255 b
A Neptune-like giant planet.
Distance from Earth: 245 light-years
Year discovered: 2019
Discovered by: Las Campanas Observatory
Planet mass: 34 Earths
Orbital period: 96.05 day(s)

https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/exo/#/planet/HD_206255_b

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PRESS RELEASE:
🪐 Planetary systems come in two families, and the host star decides which one is born.

An ISSI International Team led by Diederik Kruijssen published their research out now in Nature Astronomy 👇
www.issibern.ch/planetary-sy...

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Diligent sleuthing by astronomers has broken open a cold case in the data archive of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. In a study published Monday in Nature Astronomy, researchers report uncovering a…

#science #exoplanets #hubble

Name: Kepler-289 d
A Neptune-like giant planet.
Distance from Earth: 2,298 light-years
Year discovered: 2014
Discovered by: Kepler
Planet radius: 2.68 x Earth
Planet mass: 4 Earths
Orbital period: 66.06 day(s)

https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/exo/#/planet/Kepler-289_d

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Gliese 1132 c in Vela offers a glimpse into extreme super-Earth geology. Unlike its stripped inner neighbor, this rocky world preserves a unique story of accretion.
#Gliese1132c #Exoplanets #CosmicOptics
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On scorching K2-141b, a 6-hour orbit melts rock into glowing lava oceans and vaporizes stone into mineral skies. Witness the ultimate cosmic extremes!

#K2141b #Exoplanets #CosmicOptics
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Name: Kepler-263 b
A Neptune-like giant planet.
Distance from Earth: 2,462 light-years
Year discovered: 2014
Discovered by: Kepler
Planet radius: 2.67 x Earth
Orbital period: 16.57 day(s)

https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/exo/#/planet/Kepler-263_b

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Young, close-in #planets love to live dangerously: They can provoke stellar #flares that backfire. At #mpsgoettingen, Ekaterina Ilin heads a new Max Planck Research Group and #ERCStartingGrant to study this self-destructive interaction. www.mps.mpg.de/young-close-...
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Name: HD 218566 b
A giant planet composed mainly of gas.
Distance from Earth: 94 light-years
Year discovered: 2010
Discovered by: W. M. Keck Observatory
Planet mass: 64 Earths
Orbital period: 225.70 day(s)

https://eyes.nasa.gov/apps/exo/#/planet/HD_218566_b

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