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Benjamin Simpson @hodomania_simpson@indieauthors.social · Jul 23, 2026
On Exoplanet 25472 there is an animal, a fuzzy cute animal, that lives in the deep purple caves of the Noegeum mountains. It lives most of its life underground, but for two months each year it emerges to bask in the weak sun. The first part of its body to emerge is the three fingered arm, to reach up between the strange weeds and measure the strength of the sun. Because the planet is a no-visit ecological zone, I sat for days in an anti-gravity ship 6 kilometres away, waiting for the first sign of life. #scifi #exoplanet #MicroFiction #bloomscrolling #nature #photography
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TKSST • seethis.tv 🌈🪐✨ @tksst@fediscience.org · Jul 17, 2026
💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🪐🔭 For the first time, astronomers have detected an #atmosphere on a rocky #planet in the habitable zone of another #star. The super-Earth LHS 1140 b, located 50 light years away, shows signs of a #helium dominated atmosphere escaping into #space. Researchers used the WINERED #spectrograph at Las Campanas Observatory to make the ground-based #discovery. 👉 https://www.sciencealert.com/for-the-first-time-astronomers-have-detected-an-atmosphere-around-a-rocky-planet-in-the-habitable-zone #astronomy #exoplanet #superearth #habitablezone #spectrograph #lhs1140b #science #reddwarf #harvard
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K.Llewellin :coffefied: @KLlewellin@masto.ai · Jul 17, 2026
In search of life beyond our solar system: Atmosphere detected on a habitable-zone rocky world https://phys.org/news/2026-07-life-solar-atmosphere-habitable-zone.html 🪐 #Exoplanet #Exoplanets #AlienWorlds #AlienLife #Extraterrestrials #Space #Science #SolarSystem #Astrobiology
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ESO @esoastronomy@mastodon.social · Jul 15, 2026
Ten years of hide-and-seek! 🫣 Astronomers used our VLT to find a new #exoplanet orbiting the famous star Beta Pictoris — hiding in archival ESO observations spanning over a decade! And it's shier than any exoplanet we've imaged before. 1/3 📷 ESO/B. Sutlieff, M. Bonse et al. #astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomania_simpson@indieauthors.social · May 06, 2026
There is a worm on Exoplanet 45383 which is not one of the exciting fauna found on alien worlds. It is not gigantic or bizarre or noteworthy. But when it sleeps, the tail end opens up and collects the nutrients in the soil. And they are pretty when they sleep. My host uses them to aerate the soil, and pulled a sleeping worm from the turf so I could get a good photo of their pretty backside. #scifi #exoplanet #MicroFiction #bloomscrolling #nature #photography
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomania_simpson@indieauthors.social · Apr 23, 2026
Definitely a space ship with it’s energy absorbing tail leaving a planet. Millions of people on this space arc heading off on a generational space journey to the next galaxy. #scifi #exoplanet #MicroFiction #bloomscrolling #nature #photography #dandelion
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomania_simpson@indieauthors.social · Mar 05, 2026
The Salsus people began life in the deserts of Exoplanet 74657. They, like all other life, used available resources to build homes. For them it was salt. They mastered the art of manufacturing perfect rectangular blocks. Eventually, one king built the customary-next-step-in-cultural-evolution pyramid. But now, centuries later, the climate has shifted. It rains one day every ten years on the desert, which is slowly, ever so slowly, dissolving the pyramid (but creating beautiful crystals on the outer surface). Now that politics in the region has stabilized, the decades old plans to build a protective roof over the pyramid (and the controversial ‘Shopping Destination and Leisure Complex’) are being dusted off. #scifi #exoplanet #MicroFiction #nature #photography #frost #ice
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomania_simpson@indieauthors.social · Mar 03, 2026
They look so beautiful and soft and peaceful. But on Exoplanet 58294 the native flora found a taste for blood. While not able to walk, their long thin stems spring into action. The innocent looking red petals pop open in an instant, sharp and deadly. Insects can be captured whole, while small mammals will succumb to the toxin within seconds. The plant can then drag the unfortunate into its branches and slowly feed. The toxin puts humans in bed for a week, so visitors are given armoured trousers for outside excursions, and told not to stop and smell the flowers. #scifi #exoplanet #MicroFiction #bloomscrolling #nature #photography
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomania_simpson@indieauthors.social · Feb 11, 2026
When the Cranet people of Exoplanet 23584 first ground glass and invented telescopes, they looked up and saw the dots were planets. But they also saw millions of these strange white clusters floating between the first and second planet. Later they understood that they were frozen water, similar to Saturn’s Rings, but the perfect distance from the sun to warm and cool into spheres. It must have been winter when they named them Cleocran. Because that translates as Snowmen. #scifi #exoplanet #seed #fruit #nature #photography
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Benjamin Simpson @hodomania_simpson@indieauthors.social · Feb 03, 2026
On Exoplanet 09774 these seeds have gained the name of Walking Apples. Plants don’t walk, (well, except for Triffids) but these ones do, sort of. Once dropped from the branch, the ‘legs’ move the seed along the soil upwards of 10 meters. There are no birds to spread the seed on this planet, which is probably why they walk. The seeds mostly trundle along at night, although we don’t know why at night, or how they know it’s night, although the nights do normally last 37 earth hours. #scifi #exoplanet #seed #nature #photography #magicinthemundane
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