The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of #Exoplanetary Systems - a 1 to 20 Micron Spectrum of the Planetary-Mass Companion VHS 1256-1257 b: https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.00620 -> Weather report - expect scattered, patchy clouds made up of silicates on planet VHS 1256 b: https://webbtelescope.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023-105

Framework for the architecture of #exoplanetary systems - I. Four classes of #planetary system architecture / II. Nature versus nurture - emergent formation pathways of architecture classes: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/02/aa43751-22/aa43751-22.html / https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2023/02/aa44705-22/aa44705-22.html -> Four classes of #planetarysystems: https://www.unibe.ch/news/media_news/media_relations_e/media_releases/2023/media_releases_2023/four_classes_of_planetary_systems/index_eng.html

@mustapipa
"virtually all these stars are surrounded by #exoplanetary systems"!

If there is life on one or more of these exoplanets, at least we are save from "Independence Day"-like aliens: "45 million light-years away from Earth"

Physics is universal so they have no clue we are here. All they might know about earth is that the dominant species got extinct 20 mio years ago.

This galaxy NGC 1097 is located 45 million light-years away from Earth.

It has been observed with the new #VLT instrument #ERIS, showing the gaseous and dusty ring almost symmetrically around the centre of the #galaxy.

The dark clouds represent interstellar dust that prevents us from seeing the stars behind them whereas the brighter spots are areas of rapid #star formation.

And we know that virtually all these stars are surrounded by #exoplanetary systems.

#astronomy https://www.eso.org/public/images/ann22015a/