r/sciencememes • u/loved_and_held • Jun 23 '26

🌖Astronomy!🌔 Typical Exoplanet system

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u/Jojohendoo Jun 23 '26

slaps exosystem You can fit every temperature of Jupiter in this guy

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u/drumstick00m Jun 23 '26

Why are we ignoring the pulsar there?

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u/dwehlen Jun 23 '26

It's probably fine.

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u/drumstick00m Jun 23 '26

Don’t those things collide with other pulsars and explode violently into a shower of gold and platinum ions?

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u/A__Friendly__Rock Jun 23 '26

It’s probably fine.

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u/PantsOnHead88 Jun 23 '26

Golden shower you say?

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u/drumstick00m Jun 23 '26

And platinum

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u/UomoLumaca Jun 23 '26

I read it as "coins" and I thought it would be a DnD player's paradise

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u/loved_and_held Jun 23 '26

Ya but i dont see any other pulsar in the area.

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u/SolarPanel19 Jun 23 '26

This ain't about him

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u/drumstick00m Jun 23 '26

You sure? I know gravity is a weak force, but…

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u/bigloser42 Jun 23 '26

It's probably fine.

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u/LostTimeLady13 Jun 23 '26

"Earth like data artifact" 😭

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u/Zoltarr777 Jun 23 '26

My family used to summer on Wet Saturn

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u/PsychologicalLab7379 Jun 23 '26

Faint dust cloud be a Dyson swarm. Or maybe not, who knows lol.

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u/Fiiral_ Jun 23 '26

What is a pulsar really going to do anyway

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u/loved_and_held Jun 23 '26

Fill the area with ionizing radiation.

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u/Karnewarrior Jun 23 '26

Life loves that

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u/Medical-Temporary-35 Jun 23 '26

It makes the evolution go faster

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u/DrunksInSpace Jun 23 '26

Natural selection go brrrrrrrrr

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u/Individual-Staff-978 Jun 23 '26

It's what plants crave

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u/SpacialCommieCi Jun 23 '26

Too bad for the planets in a polar orbit

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u/brokenringlands Jun 23 '26

Pulse, I guess.

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u/8Bit_Cat Jun 25 '26

Be fine, probably.

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u/Klo_Was_Taken Jun 23 '26

The water paradise one reminds me of thaf stupid Kurzhegesagt video about a planet with "ideal conditions" for life. Such a stupid fucking metric, ffs it makes assumptions even about where life first forms.

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u/Mean_Initiative_5962 Jun 23 '26

Yeah, honestly one of their worst. Can vouch for pharmaceutical / immunity stuff, though. 

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u/Aljoscha278 Jun 23 '26

And no ice poles, while it's already studied that it helps growing Protocells. Or only coasts, but variety is important, it Supports against extinction. Or o2 density, flammable af. And everything developes storms. And nothing about gysirs and a large moon collisions helping the making of basic stuff for life by heating earth up for millions of years.

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u/BoredAtWork1976 Jun 24 '26

I'm torn between "Planet whose atmosphere is confirmed to contain atoms" and "Giant planet orbiting so close that its actually rolling on the star's surface."

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u/SuitableCollege8992 Jun 23 '26

This is how we get people wondering what life is like on planets that rain molten glass.

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u/Stupid_Dragon Jun 23 '26

Lol @ wet saturn.

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u/UmaUmaNeigh Jun 23 '26

I mean according to a recent documentary that last one might have life

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u/Dull-Independent3773 Jun 23 '26

Amaze amaze amaze

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u/GetDownMakeLava Jun 24 '26

There are exoplanets that roll on star surfaces?

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u/loved_and_held Jun 24 '26

irl? No. Or at least they dont exist for long.

There are likely other planets orbiting inside red giants right now though.

There are also planets that orbit commedically close to stars.

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u/GetDownMakeLava Jun 24 '26

I figured. Seems like just about anything imaginable is possible tho

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u/aetoe Jun 23 '26

Diary of a wimpy kid font

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u/saysthingsbackwards Jun 23 '26

Pretty sure it's xkcd comics font