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Mars lost most of its atmosphere… and with it, the chance to stay warm and wet 🌊 Do you think planets have a point of no return?#MarsScience #PlanetaryEvolution
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🌑 Title: The Burned Giants — How Some Gas Planets Became Rocky Worlds By: spacetracker.space/post/-the… For centuries, astronomers have marvelled at the vastness and power of gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn. These immense worlds, made mostly of hydrogen and helium, reign over their solar systems with sheer mass and gravity. But far across the galaxy, scientists have discovered a haunting transformation — gas giants that lost their atmospheres and became rocky worlds. These scorched remnants are known as chthonian planets, from the ancient Greek word meaning “of the underworld.” They are thought to be the stripped cores of once-mighty gas giants, exposed after billions of years of brutal radiation from their nearby stars. Among the most striking examples are CoRoT-7b and Kepler-10b, both orbiting so close to their suns that their years last mere days. Temperatures on their surfaces can exceed 2,000°C (3,600°F) — hot enough to melt rock and metal. Under such infernal conditions, outer layers of gas and even vaporised rock are swept away into space by relentless stellar winds. What’s left behind is a dense, rocky world — a planetary ghost of its former self. These stripped giants offer astronomers a glimpse into the violent forces that shape solar systems, and the fate awaiting planets that stray too close to their stars. The existence of such worlds deepens our understanding of planetary evolution. It suggests that some rocky exoplanets may have begun as gas giants, blurring the once-clear boundary between planet types. On the grand cosmic scale, these are survivors of stellar fire — silent witnesses to the power of their suns, and reminders that even the mightiest worlds can be undone by time and radiation. #SpaceTracker #Exoplanets #ChthonianPlanets #CoRoT7b #Kepler10b #Astronomy #SpaceScience #PlanetaryEvolution #GasGiants #SpaceTrackerSpace
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KOI-55b & KOI-55c: Survivors of a Stellar Death 🌟🔥🪐 Orbiting so close to their parent star that they once swam inside its fiery outer layers, KOI-55b and KOI-55c are two of the strangest planets ever found. These small, scorched worlds circle a dying white dwarf star... not just close, but within what used to be the star’s own envelope. 🔎 What Are KOI-55b and KOI-55c? These two Earth-sized planets orbit the remnant core of a red giant, now a white dwarf known as KOI-55 (also called KIC 05807616). They lie at just 0.006 AU and 0.0076 AU from their star—that’s less than 1% of the Earth-Sun distance. ⏱️ Their orbits are blisteringly fast—under 6 hours per revolution. 🔥 They Shouldn’t Exist… But They Do KOI-55 once expanded into a red giant, a phase where it would have engulfed anything that close. Yet KOI-55b and c survived, possibly because: 🛡️ They were once gas giants that lost their atmospheres, leaving behind rocky cores. 🌊 Or, they formed after the red giant phase, born from leftover debris in a second-generation planetary disk. 🌡️ Scorched but Intact Being so close to a white dwarf, the planets endure intense radiation and tidal forces, with surface temperatures exceeding 7,000°F (4,000°C). Despite that, they remain stable—ghost planets orbiting a stellar corpse, defying what we thought planets could survive. 🧪 Why It Matters KOI-55b and KOI-55c offer a rare glimpse into: 🔁 Planetary survival after stellar death ☠️ How planets can endure engulfment or be reborn after a star's collapse 🌀 The extreme physics near compact stellar remnants like white dwarfs 💡 Fun Fact: If KOI-55b and c were any closer, they might not just orbit their star—they could literally spiral into it due to gravitational decay. These are planets that lived through the death of their sun, and they’re still circling the ashes. #KOI55b #WhiteDwarfPlanets #StellarDeath #SurvivorWorlds #ExtremeExoplanets #Astrophysics #PlanetaryEvolution
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ŞİFA DEFTERİ: İletişimle Şifalanma ve Birlik – 8 Mayıs 2025 🌟🤝 Mantra: "Ben, sevgi ve bilgelikle iletişim kuruyorum; insanlıkla birliğimi şifalandırıyorum." 🗣️💖 Nefes Uygulaması: 4 saniye burundan nefes al – 4 saniye tut – 8 saniyede ağızdan yavaşça ver. Bunu 4 kez yap. (4 sayısı dengeyi, 8 sayısı sonsuzluğu ve birliği temsil eder.) 🌬️ Küçük Görev: Bugün birine güzel bir söz söyle ya da bir mesaj yaz. Bu, bir arkadaşın, ailen ya da hiç tanımadığın biri olabilir. Mesela: "Senin ışığın dünyayı güzelleştiriyor." Bunu söylerken, sözlerinin şifa taşıdığını hayal et. 📩✨ 🕊️ Kayıt: Bir an dur ve gökyüzüne bak. Jüpiter ve Mars’ı görmek için akşamı bekleyebilir ya da sadece gökyüzünün enerjisini hissedebilirsin. Şunu düşün: "Benim sözlerim ve niyetlerim, insanlığın birliğine hizmet ediyor." Sonra bir bilgelik sözünü gününe taşı: “Özgürlük, 21. yüzyılda bireysel kazanç değil, ortak sorumluluk demektir.” – Yuval Noah Harari, Mayıs 2025 🌐 Bu sözü düşünerek, bir topluluk için küçük bir adım at: Belki bir grup sohbetinde birleştirici bir fikir paylaş ya da doğaya bir iyilik yap. 🌍 Günlük Bilgelik Mesajı: Merkür İkizler’deyken iletişimle şifalanma zamanı! Papal conclave’in devam ettiği bu günlerde, liderlik ve ahlaki rehberlik arayışı sürüyor. Kendi içindeki lideri uyandır ve sözlerinle birliği güçlendir. “Barış, şimdiyi savaşmadan kabul ettiğimizde filizlenir.” – Eckhart Tolle (Nisan 2025). 🕊️ #ŞifaDefteri #İletişimleŞifalanma #BirlikEnerjisi #GezegenselŞifa #AdaletVeBarış #HealingThroughConnection #CollectiveUnity #PlanetaryEvolution #LoveAndWisdom #SpiritualAwakening
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Many scientists dismiss the evolution of life on Earth as a rare and lucky event that is unlikely to be duplicated very often, if at all. But a team of researchers from Penn State University argues that life on Earth is natural and inevitable, in a universe likely filled with living planets. ancient-origins.net/news-sci… #AlienLife #LifeonEarth #Evolution #LivingUniverse #PlanetaryEvolution
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Mercury transforms into Venus, a water planet where microbial life emerges due to asteroid impacts. 🌍💧 #planetaryevolution #spacejourney #UniplanetaryEvolutionTheory #UET #fyp
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"Discover the fascinating planetary evolution from the sun's iron-rich plasma ball to Earth's birth and beyond. A cycle of creation and destruction unveils our past, present, and potential future. 🌎✨ #PlanetaryEvolution #BirthAndRebirth #UniplanetaryEvolutionTheory #UET #fyp"
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Congratulations to Dr. Catherine Johnson of @UBCeoas on her election as a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. bit.ly/3sbavo4 @americanacad #UBC #geophysics #PlanetaryEvolution
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If #PlanetaryScience is not your jam, the competition is open to all subjects in our Earth Science Research group including #GlobalLandscapes & #ClimateChange, #DynamicEarth & #PlanetaryEvolution, and Life's Interactions with Dynamic Environments: gla.ac.uk/schools/ges/resear…

ALT Outer Space Animation GIF by Cat Chmaj

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#Space: #PlanetaryEvolution reveals a #VolatileHistory — astronomers studying the processes around star and #PlanetFormation have observed that regions where planets arise possess a #ComplexChemistry 👁 ec.europa.eu/research-and-in… via @HorizonMagEU
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* THE EVENT – PLANETARY EVOLUTION IN PROGRESS! * Lions Gate Portal ~ KI... youtu.be/J6u-to_6JaE #PlanetaryEvolution

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