# @planetary_pan on Instagram

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- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/33110604-planetary-pan-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2021-08-03T16:53:06.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Beth Johnson (@planetarypan) — https://gondola.cc/planetarypan

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Earlier this week, I talked about some of the strange atmospheric conditions and possible weather on hot Jupiters – places where the rain is composed of iron, rubies, sapphires, and other materials not usually thought of as liquid molecules. Honestly, I love thinking about fascinating possibilities for exoplanets. These worlds must be a science fiction writer’s dream. You may not be able to host human life on them, but you sure can be creative about other forms of life and their adaptations.⠀
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However, the press releases about all these individual worlds might be overshadowing the forest for the trees, so to speak. In a story titled “Exoplanets in the Shadows”, Damond Benningfield takes a look at research areas that are as interesting, if not more so, than all these individual exoplanets we keep reporting on.⠀
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After years of focus on individual exoplanets and their systems, the time has come to focus on bigger picture sections of exoplanet research.⠀
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Read my full story: https://buff.ly/3A9ypSD⠀
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IMAGE: An artist’s rendering of OGLE-2005-BLG-390L b, which was discovered through gravitational microlensing. It is one of the most remote exoplanets yet seen, at a distance of about 20,000 light-years. CREDIT: ESO⠀
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#planetaryscience #exoplanets #science #space #research #sciart #eso #eos #agu

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