- Paper on which the article is based: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae157c
"A Carbon-rich Atmosphere on a Windy Pulsar Planet", PSR J2322–2650b.
No one bothered to link to it, but fortunately Google picked it up.
by 7373737373
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- Coming up around 2041 (hopefully) will be the https://habitableworldsobservatory.org - which will be the first telescope sensitive enough to detect Earth-like exoplanets around Sun-like stars! Check out the "Simulated Observation of the Solar System" video toward the bottom of that page, coolest thing I've seen in a while!
- Kyplanet had a video on this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7pu0Dhu87o
- Pretty cool, or more probable hot. Though I highly doubt it is something resembling a planet up close, it is more likely some kind of remnant from forming the neutron star that just happened to have the right size and ended up in the right orbit to show up in exoplanet surveys.
- What the HeC?
- The artist's conception, with Jupiter-like bands running at an angle through the principle tidal axis really bugs me. If there's some bizarre mechanism that makes this even remotely plausible, it ought to have been explained. If (as I think is more likely) it's just a case of someone who didn't understand the article commissioning and approving and illustration by someone else who didn't understand it... why? Why even bother? It would be clearer with no illustration than with a misleading picture.
(The worst example of this I've seen was a few years back, when CNN briefly used a picture of a cow to "illustrate" an article about coconut milk).
- If I'm standing near (but not directly on) the pointy part of the lemon shaped planet, do I feel like I'm standing on level ground, or am I on a slant?
- I wonder if there are bucky balls full of helium hanging out under pressure in there?
- There are chemiseries and metabolisms out there beyond our wildest imaginations
- Getting flung around a gamma ray emitting pulsar while baking on diamonds doesn't seem very groovy
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- The aliens living there have silly high pitch voices.
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