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Elizabeth Tasker
@elizabethtasker.bsky.social
UK astrophysicist and science communicator working at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Author of 'The Planet Factory' and editor of ‘Planetary Diversity’. Very into space, virtual reality, computer graphics and rescue cats.
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Annnnd with link cards fixed on Bluesky... here is a movie of a (mainly imagined) new world! LP 791-18d is known to be Earth-sized, in tidal lock and tidally heated. Whether this could power volcanism across the planet to support water on the night side is an unknown... but cool to imagine!
LP 791-18d: A tidally locked, volcanic world
Artistic render of how the surface of the exoplanet, LP 791-18d might appear. LP 791-18d is an Earth-sized planet that was discovered in May 2023 (see press ...
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Elizabeth Tasker
@elizabethtasker.bsky.social
UK astrophysicist and science communicator working at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Author of 'The Planet Factory' and editor of ‘Planetary Diversity’. Very into space, virtual reality, computer graphics and rescue cats.
1.5k followers311 following511 posts