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Aren’t they all?

its tricky and there are many methods and none is 100% sure to what it really shows. There's still data on stuff we knew for years existing regularly corrected, often with an "maybe" tacked on tho, there are many cool papers about what exoplanets were made of when they crashed into white dwarfs :3

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“This one’s spinning!” *one solar flare later* “Never mind.”

why is your saturn wet. whats wrong with it

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"There's a pulsar here, but it's probably fine"

Actual Jupiter, somehow

"Look, a Plutoidoid!" screams a distant Neil deGrasse Tyson.

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same here! 🪨🪨🪨

Search continues for the first xoxoxoplanetary system.

And yet, these only represent a few planets out of Trillions out there 🤷🏼‍♂️😉

Oh I see you've been playing Starfield and are trying to make a base without any skill upgrades #NicheTweet

day 40 of factoring xkcd 3103 is 29×107

Of course there is also the planet with an orbit so extreme it spends part of its orbit as an iceberg gas giant and part skimming close to its sun. Or possibly it is eight different planets crossing the sun at different times.

Maybe the solution to the Fermi Paradox is that all alien species look at their version of this picture, go like "ah, why bother looking for that one outlier...", and just go for a walk instead.

Probably the latter. I mean, we're just a few hundred years into realising there's more than one of them.

That dust cloud is so Fomalhaut b coded…

Still no Smoke Ring huh

growing up my parents got me a poster of the solar system but it had the orbits of Neptune and Uranus reversed.

🤣...🤔

"either a gas giant or a fist sized rock, depending on which calibration method you use" Is so painfully accurate

One for @drbecky.bsky.social !

Wet Saturn Well As a Matter of Fact It’s Very Wet Saturn I Think It’s Wetter Than You Like It Saturn Oh The Cat’s Got It

quality content as always 👌

K2-18b in a nutshell.