Intriguing hint of CO2 in my favorite exoplanet GJ 1214b. It seems the detection can be reconciled with other measurements with a bit of effort, but at least it's a signal to not give up hope of on this little planet.
Nortmann+ arxiv.org/abs/2604.15292
🧪🔭 #exoplanets
Just living in Oxford felt like that quite often, tbh.
That Iran "coal comeback" in full
It would be cool to get some observational constraints (not just flatness of the spectrum) that can confirm the aerosol properties of these planets.
Interesting modelling study...the haziness of relatively small exoplanets might have something to do with hydrocarbon aerosol formation. Not from photochemistry, but from formation in the deep atmosphere.
Yang+ arxiv.org/abs/2604.11919
🧪🔭 #exoplanets
Among others.
I saw multiple different ones within the few seconds that I checked. Ffs
Why would you create fake Artemis images that are close to the real ones? Just why?
A robotic arm extends to place science instruments in contact with textured rocks.
Meanwhile on Mars...
Check the wild textures in the background
science.nasa.gov/mission/msl-...
The Karakoram anomaly seems pretty much gone now.
Eerste gsm rond 2008, eerste smartphone rond 2012. Heel lang weten te weerstaan haha
I try to stick to yay-science on here, but seriously, remove this man from office for the sake of all of humanity.
Venn diagrams of detection significance of CO, H2S, non-gray clouds, and non-isothermal temperatures using combinations of NIRISS, NIRSpec, and MIRI (and WFC3 as a replacement of NIRISS).
Ooo I quite like these plots, showing how well you detect things in an exoplanet (HAT-P-12b) spectrum with JWST (and HST) using combinations of instruments.
Heinke+ arxiv.org/abs/2604.01219
🧪🔭 #exoplanets
Astronomers just do random sciency stuff when they procrastinate :)
Some Earth-looking satellites use the moon as a calibration target.
So. Many. Cow. Puns! 😅
I am so excited for the #Dragonfly mission! A rotorcraft that will fly around on Saturn's largest moon #Titan!
NASA dropped a bunch of new multimedia for it and you should absolutely check it out 🤩
🔗 science.nasa.gov/mission/drag...
🔭🐡🧪🎨
Congrats! Twins rock! (slightly biased, being a twin myself ;) )
Data centers, reflecting mirrors, ... people just love messing up everything around them, don't they?
Stop scrolling & post two characters who bring you happiness.
The problem that every attempt at athletic sex testing runs into is that it's trying to force a strict binary onto something that is inherently a multidimensional continuum with overlapping distributions.
www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...
The advantage of starting with running relatively late in life is that you can still get a PB at age 44! 5k in 18:33 and still margin for improvement. Pretty happy.
Titan, Saturn’s largest moon, was discovered on March 25, 1655, by Christiaan Huygens. More than 350 years later, it remains a key target for exploration. Launching in 2028, NASA’s Dragonfly mission will investigate the complex chemistry of this ocean world. https://dragonfly.jhuapl.edu/Why-Titan
Udderly untranslateable?
I'll see myself out.
Talking about cows and calfs (small talk)
Taking old cows out of the ditch (bringing up things from the far past)
It's a truth as a cow (obvious fact)
Having the cows on dry land (being financially secure)
Some Dutch sayings:
When the calf is drowned, one fills up the well. (People do something only when something bad has already happened).
I also tough at the time that if we are a beer in a universe where most things are champagne, we're missing out on a great party.
This popped into my head after a talk by Dimitar Sasselov, who had this whole (probably intentionally provocative) talk about how we should all stop observing exoplanet and should first learn to model the Earth, which he compared to beer, in great detail.
I've used a combination once: You can model until the spherical cows come home...(but you need data at some point).
