Hugh Osborn
Today's the final day of #exoplanets5! It's been a great week - Leiden has been swamped with nearly a thousand exoplanetary astronomers. It's been both extremely rewarding & simultaneously draining to catch up with so many old colleagues and friends, plus make a few new ones.
Jun 21, 2024 at 7:16amWeb
Show threadHugh OsbornJun 21, 2024
The biggest new result has been that we now know that mini-Neptunes are not stratified with ice, water, & H2 in different layers - like oil floating on water - but instead all mixed together in a single atmosphere - like alcohol and water. As Bjorn Benneke put it - sub-Neptunes are "vodka planets".