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Cyrille Vanlerberghe @cyrillevan.eurosky.social · 17/04/2025

Des astronomes de l'université de Cambridge ont-ils trouvé de la vie sur une lointaine planète? Je vous épargne tout suspense : non 😬 Les astrophysiciens que j'ai interrogé sont plus que dubitatifs (pour rester poli) www.lefigaro.fr/sciences/une...

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De possibles signes d’une vie extraterrestre ont-ils été détectés sur une exoplanète ?

En utilisant le télescope Webb, une équipe britannique assure avoir trouvé une potentielle « biosignature » dans une atmosphère. Les spécialistes restent circonspects.

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Planets @ Oxford @oxoplanets.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

Congratulations to Dr Chloe Fisher (@astrochloe.bsky.social) on her talk concerning the hot rocky super Earth TOI-1685b. She presented the results from her PI JWST program, where she obtained 4 transit observations with NIRSpec/G395H 🔭 #ukexom25

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Jayne Birkby @jaynebirkby.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I had the great pleasure to join Melvyn Bragg and two of my colleagues, Oli Shorttle and Saidul Islam, on BBC R4's In Our Time recently! A fun discussion on the Habitability of Planets, you can catch up online, or tune in for the repeat at 11pm on Sunday (UK time) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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In Our Time - The Habitability of Planets - BBC Sounds

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss ideas about where life may begin in the universe and how.

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Planets @ Oxford @oxoplanets.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Congratulations to 1st year DPhil student Mitchell Yzer on his recent publication "Forming Earth-like and Low-Mass Rocky Exoplanets Through Pebble and Planetesimal Accretion", read it here: arxiv.org/abs/2412.02571

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Forming Earth-like and Low-Mass Rocky Exoplanets Through Pebble and Planetesimal Accretion

The theory of pebble accretion (PA) has become a popular planet formation theory during the past decade. However, PA studies generally rely on large planetary embryos, much larger than those expected ...

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Planets @ Oxford @oxoplanets.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Hi BlueSky! We have joined to bring updates and news from the Exoplanet and Planetary Physics groups here at Oxford! 🔭

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