#EXOPLANETS

Katie Mack

AstroKatie

In astronomy, one of the most important things we have to keep in mind when we look at observational data is the possibility of “selection effects.” Sometimes we can be

Joe Renaud

SpaceTides

Paper accepted!You will be able to read about my latest research in an upcoming issue of PSJ (@AAS_Publishing)! There is a preprint you can check out now all about tides

Rebecca Leane

RKLeane

New paper!Exoplanets as New Sub-GeV Dark Matter Detectorshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2010.00015 @SmirnovJuri and I find that some of the billions of exoplanets peppered throughout our Galaxy can be used to discover Dark Matter! Thread:

planefag

planefag

Stellarium is a freeware planetarium program. If you turn on "show exoplanets" and zoom in a little to the North-North-East, it gives you a lovely visualization of the results of

Planetary Society

exploreplanets

It's Friday, which means it's time for this week's space updates.Retweet the ones you like best and help spread the joy of space exploration with the world.Here...we...go! Bad weather forced

Ryan MacDonald

MartianColonist

New paper Could we detect alien life on a planet orbiting a dead star?@nasa's announcement today of the 1st transiting planet around a white dwarf could have major implications for

Jake Clark

spacejayk

IT'S OUT EVERYONE!!! After 18 months of working on this paper and many revisions later, our planet-killing paper is out: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.10959 (A thread) Now before I get carried away with

Dr. Jessie Christiansen

aussiastronomer

I’m an immigrant. I moved here 12 years ago from Australia, to work at *awed whisper* Harvard University. In BOSTON. Which was suddenly a real place, not a movie set!

Ryan MacDonald

MartianColonist

New co-authored paper out today!Over 1,000 light years away, the hot Jupiter HAT-P-41b has been extensively observed by @NASAHubble for many years.We're excited to share what we've learned about HAT-P-41b's

qole

qole

THERE IS NO PLANET B, ELONhttps://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1290056061253165057 I grew up reading the same Golden Age science fiction that Elon did. Space ports with gleaming rockets that would take you to new

People_of_Space: Julie

People_Of_Space

Let's talk SciFi! (Oh, woah, who could have seen that one coming! XD) 1/17 The awesome @astrosnat talked about scifi last week as well but I would like to touch

Paul Byrne

ThePlanetaryGuy

Things have quietened enough that I'm going to share my thoughts about the detection of #phosphine on #Venus announced yesterday.In short: this is a BIG fucking deal. And here's why:(a

Karin Dissauer

KDissauer

Very excited to share that our paper on the first detections of post-flare dimmings on stars indicative of stellar coronal mass ejections (CMEs) was published in @NatureAstronomy yesterday! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-021-01345-9

Ad Astra Academy

AdAstraScience

Vida em Vênus? Seria possível? Hoje, @astroaline e @funcionaloucura falarão sobre a detecção de fosfina na atmosfera de Venus!Life in Venus? Could it be possible? Today @astroaline and @funcionaloucura will

Akshat | Sarafina stan account

star_stufff

'ALIENS'Hey I'm back! As promised here is a super scary, mind blowing thread on Aliens this time! Are we alone in the universe? Who is out there? How likely is

Dr. Phil Metzger

DrPhiltill

Interestingly, that was not the first article where science journalist Martha G. Morrow mentioned the public's idea of a "planet". In 1943, there was a claimed discovery of an exoplanet