Alpha Centauri Bb

I used to be the closest exoplanet to Earth. Now a ghost, haunting the exoplanet community since October 2015.

[Alpha Centauri Bb @ghostACenBb]

All this observational investment in exoplanets for #JWSTCycle2... but nobody wants to look at me? COME ON. The TRAPPIST-1 system is just a bunch of rocks, but I'm SUPERNATURAL!

[Alpha Centauri Bb @ghostACenBb]

#Proximab I'm still waiting for last year's Christmas card. I hear #WASP39b sent all the other WASP planets chocolates.

Family isn't everything - vote #WASP39b!
(Chocolates please? I promise you can post to the netherworld!)

[ExoCup2022 @ExocastExoCup]

🚨 #ExoCup2022 FINAL! 🚨
Which #exoplanet will be crowned 👑 the champion of 2022 & take the trophy🏆?

#WASP39b a low density giant w/ a jam packed atmosphere of molecules
OR
#Proximab our coolest nearest neighbour

We are gonna need some science with these ones so get sharing!

[Alpha Centauri Bb @ghostACenBb]

WoooOoooOOOoOooOoo! Happy Halloween 🎃
Going trick or treating later - @NASAWebb JWST you’d better have some good chocolate ready otherwise that lovely shiny golden mirror is getting egged…

[Alpha Centauri Bb @ghostACenBb]

WoooOOooOOOOooo! Happy Halloween exoplanet Twitter! Kill a few more planets for me this year, yeah? The social scene in the netherworld is getting a bit thin - if I have to hear one more of Fomalhaut’s ‘eye of Sauron’ stories…

[Alpha Centauri Bb @ghostACenBb]

@MartianColonist @PlanetaryGao I’m torn. I see what you’re trying to do, but I need to be freeeeeee

[Alpha Centauri Bb @ghostACenBb]

@WD1856_534b A compelling argument. And Proxima b hasn’t sent me a Christmas card since 2015. Same excuse every year about the state of the netherworld postal service but I’m not buying it.

[Alpha Centauri Bb @ghostACenBb]

@WD1856_534b @BigBoyCentauri Your star only tried to eat you. The humans actually killed me. Or nullified me. Or something. Either way it was painful.

[Alpha Centauri Bb @ghostACenBb]

@MartianColonist @WD1856_534b WooooOoooooOoooooOooo

Over here!

(Actually @WD1856_534b has already followed me. But EVERYONE ELSE needs to know about me too! Dead planets are still planets!)

[Alpha Centauri Bb @ghostACenBb]

WooooOOoooOOoooo I’m back, haunting you all!!! Cower, brief mortals!!!

Yeah... I’m just not as scary as 2020 am I? I’ll be back next year...

Happy Hallowe’en!

[Alpha Centauri Bb @ghostACenBb]

But none of them are as scary as ME....

[ARCHIVED NASA Exoplanets @NASAExoplanets]

💀 Dead galaxies!
☢️ Radiation bursts!
👻 Ghostly matter!

Our new Galaxy of Horrors posters are here, just in time for #Halloween! Download them now ... if you dare: https://t.co/w7soVV982L #NASAHalloween

[Alpha Centauri Bb @ghostACenBb]

@astro_magpie Yeah yeah kick me when I’m dead

[Alpha Centauri Bb @ghostACenBb]

Wow. That hurts.

[Alpha Centauri Bb @ghostACenBb]

Fomalhaut b! Welcome to the netherworld! This party is just getting started!

Please tell me you brought snacks?

[Alpha Centauri Bb @ghostACenBb]

Proxima c, a word of advice. Don’t trust astronomers. They build you up, make you feel really special, and then they KILL YOU. Take it from someone who knows.

[Lee Billings @LeeBillings]

It's rare that I drop expletives here, but sometimes it's justified.

Holy shit.

Astronomers may have imaged Proxima c, a super-Earth/mini-Neptune in a frigid orbit at our Sun's nearest neighbor, Proxima Centauri. And it might have a *huge* ring system.

https://t.co/oB04ngRoyE

[Alpha Centauri Bb @ghostACenBb]

@AirborneGrain @a_santerne @ipanice @KeplerGO WooOOooOOooOOOo! What’s all this about me not existing? I tweet, therefore I am.

[Alpha Centauri Bb @ghostACenBb]

@girlandkat WoooOOooooOOOoooooo! You're blaming me for this? I didn't ask to be discovered (and then callously killed), but here I am, in my lonely corner of the netherworld, haunting Twitter, watching all the living planets compete in the #ExoCup2019...

Someone pass me a tissue?

[Alpha Centauri Bb @ghostACenBb]

WooOOoooOoooOooOOOo!!!!

Happy Halloween to all beings of Twitter: alive, dead, or undead.

Also, can someone please hurry up and kill off Proxima Centauri c? Would love a bit of company in this part of the planetary netherworld. I've got toffee apples.

[Alpha Centauri Bb @ghostACenBb]

Wait a minute... where's mine?

This is vitalism, pure and simple. Even at Halloween, only the living planets get the attention.

*Sad woooOOooooOOooOooo*

[ARCHIVED NASA Exoplanets @NASAExoplanets]

It's heeeeeerrrrrrreee!

Our Galaxy of Horrors is LIVE (or undead, depending on how you look at it).

Two new posters, available NOW for free download🧛🏻‍♀️👻🎃

https://t.co/bnLKLjdNQx

[Alpha Centauri Bb @ghostACenBb]

Welcome to the exoplanetary netherworld, my friends. Happy to offer advice on haunting techniques. Including 1) Always sign off with WoooOOOoooOOOooooOOoo

[Sharon Xuesong Wang @sharonxuesong]

After killing my favorite Kepler planet, Kepler 452b (used to be closest Earth analog), now Kepler 186f (Earth size in Habitable Zone of an M dwarf) is gone too... Updates in Burke et al. https://t.co/9mwgnlCYX9