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K.Llewellin :coffefied:<p>Alien life on Mars or Europa could survive off cosmic rays instead of the sun, scientists suggest <a href="https://www.space.com/science/alien-life-on-mars-or-europa-could-survive-off-cosmic-rays-instead-of-the-sun-scientists-suggest" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">space.com/science/alien-life-o</span><span class="invisible">n-mars-or-europa-could-survive-off-cosmic-rays-instead-of-the-sun-scientists-suggest</span></a> 🪐 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Exoplanet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Exoplanet</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Exoplanets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Exoplanets</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AlienWorlds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlienWorlds</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AlienLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlienLife</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Extraterrestrials" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extraterrestrials</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Space</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/SolarSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SolarSystem</span></a></p>
K.Llewellin :coffefied:<p>Buried alive: The secret life of deep earth microbes <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-08-alive-secret-life-deep-earth.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-08-alive-se</span><span class="invisible">cret-life-deep-earth.html</span></a> 🪐 <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Exoplanet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Exoplanet</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Exoplanets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Exoplanets</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AlienWorlds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlienWorlds</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/AlienLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AlienLife</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Extraterrestrials" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Extraterrestrials</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Space" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Space</span></a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/Science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Science</span></a></p>
Daniel Fischer<p>Silicate Sundogs - Probing the Effects of Grain Directionality in <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/Exoplanet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Exoplanet</span></a> Observations: <a href="https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ade885" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">iopscience.iop.org/article/10.</span><span class="invisible">3847/2041-8213/ade885</span></a> -&gt; Sun dogs, other celestial effects could appear in alien skies: <a href="https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/07/sun-dogs-other-celestial-effects-could-appear-alien-skies" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/</span><span class="invisible">07/sun-dogs-other-celestial-effects-could-appear-alien-skies</span></a></p>
Mikko Tuomi<p>With the future advent of powerful telescopes that may be able to resolve <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/habitable" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>habitable</span></a> worlds in images composed of a few pixels, large biological phenomena such as algal bloom on our home world could be visible.</p><p>The more we know about observing and characterizing them on Earth the better prepared we’ll be to search for them on other worlds as new, more powerful <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/exoplanet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>exoplanet</span></a> observational tools come online.</p><p><a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/exoplanets" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>exoplanets</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://scicomm.xyz/tags/astrobiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>astrobiology</span></a><br><a href="https://astrobiology.com/2025/07/orbital-biosignature-survey-brilliant-phytoplankton-bloom-in-the-baltic-sea.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">astrobiology.com/2025/07/orbit</span><span class="invisible">al-biosignature-survey-brilliant-phytoplankton-bloom-in-the-baltic-sea.html</span></a></p>

#SGU #TheSkepticsGuideToTheUniverse
The Skeptics Guide #1045 - Jul 19 2025

Quickie with Bob: Weird #Exoplanet; News Items: Voyager #Thrusters Brought Back to #Life, Space #Tourism, Global Temperature and #IceSheet Melting, @Robots Learn Physical Tasks 60 Times Faster, Most Powerful Solar #Storm; Your Questions and E-mails: EV Charging, Off the Hook; #Science or Fiction

Webseite der Episode: theskepticsguide.org/podcast/s

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The Skeptics Guide to the Universe | Weekly science podcast produced by the SGU Productions llc. Also provides blogs, forums, videos and resources. · The Skeptics Guide to the Universe

The Age and High Energy Environment of the Very Young Transiting Exoplanet TOI 1227b: arxiv.org/abs/2506.04440 -> NASA's Chandra Finds Baby #Exoplanet is Shrinking: chandra.si.edu/press/25_releas and chandra.cfa.harvard.edu/photo/

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arXiv.orgThe Age and High Energy Environment of the Very Young Transiting Exoplanet TOI 1227bThe mid-M star TOI~1227 hosts among the youngest known transiting exoplanets. We have conducted new X-ray imaging and optical spectroscopic observations of TOI 1227 aimed at ascertaining its age and the influence of its high-energy radiation on the exoplanet, TOI 1227b. We obtained a definitive X-ray detection of TOI 1227 with Chandra/HRC-I, and measured its Li and H$α$ lines using ANU SSO 2.3 m telescope (WiFeS) spectroscopy. Through spatiokinematic, isochronal, and SED-based modeling, we have constrained the age of TOI 1227 as lying between 5 Myr and 12 Myr, with a best estimate of $\sim$8 Myr. In the context of this age, we model the evolution of the transiting exoplanet TOI 1227b, using the X-ray luminosity derived from Chandra HRC-I imaging. Our modeling suggests that TOI 1227b is currently undergoing rapid atmospheric mass loss at rates on the order of $\sim 10^{12}$ g s$^{-1}$. The modeling demonstrates that the exoplanet's predicted future evolution depends sensitively on assumptions for total and core planet mass, highlighting the importance of follow-up observations of the TOI 1227 star-exoplanet system to enable measurements of both planetary mass and mass-loss rate.

Nature is amazing. On Exoplanet 45346 the Spatio Vine formed into a space elevator. I mean, it’s not technically an elevator, because there are no elevators, but it grows on the planet surface and one single huge strong vine grows up and out into space (Jack and the Beanstalk!!) and once there grows a huge heavy knob of weight so that it stays in orbit. It defies logic, and makes no sense, but it is real.
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Astronomers have caught an #exoplanet that seems to be triggering flares of radiation from the #star it orbits.

These tremendous explosions are blasting away the #planet's wispy #atmosphere, causing it to shrink every year.

This is the first-ever evidence of a "planet with a death wish."

Though it was theorized to be possible since the nineties, the flares seen in this research are around 100 times more energetic than expected.

#astronomy #exoplanets
phys.org/news/2025-07-clingy-p

Paper by Ilin et al. (2205):
nature.com/articles/s41586-025

Phys.org · Clingy planets can trigger their own doom, Cheops and TESS suggestBy European Space Agency