The Planetary Habitability Laboratory at UPR Arecibo is dedicated to mapping the habitable universe.

Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Joined March 2012
The 47th Anniversary of the Wow Signal is August 15. phl.upr.edu/wow @PlanetaryHabLab #AreciboWow
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Do you know that a second Arecibo Message was prepared but never transmitted? 😯phl.upr.edu/message #TheLastAreciboMessage
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Sentar cátedra sobre planetas, cuando hay trillones, probablemente más, con una diversidad casi inimaginable, es muy pretencioso. Aún nos queda mucho por aprender. Sobra cierta arrogancia y falta mucha humildad. Por eso es tan importante el @PlanetaryHabLab
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Here are @PlanetaryHabLab estimates of the mean global surface temperatures of the planets around TRAPPIST-1 for thin to thick atmospheres (<10 bars). TRAPPIST-1 b, measured ~500 K, is within our predictions. 😀
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Our @PlanetaryHabLab students Vanelie Olivieri Encarnación and Alexander O. Molina Ortiz at the Arecibo Observatory's 12 meter Radio Telescope. 🙂
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Today is the 11th anniversary of the Habitable Exoplanets Catalog. Here are visualization of the habitable zone, orbital diagrams, location in the night sky, and links to NASA's @nexsci_ipac data. phl.upr.edu/projects/habitab…
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This Monday is the 11th anniversary of the Habitable Exoplanets Catalog. Here is the latest map with some new additions. Can you tell which ones are new?
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Planetary HabLab retweeted
To develop best practices for evaluating the habitability of extraterrestrial environments, astrobiologists should learn from the work of ecologists studying life on Earth. Commentary by @ProfAbelMendez physicstoday.scitation.org/d…
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We had a wonderful time at #AbSciCon. See you all again at next one. 🙂 @PlanetaryHabLab #AbSciCon2022 #AbSciCon22
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Only 21 out of 5000 confirmed planets might be potentially habitable, i.e, Earth-sized orbiting within the habitable zone of their star. Up to 59 if you want to be more optimistic. Link in planets takes you to the @NExScI_IPAC catalog. phl.upr.edu/projects/habitab… @NASAExoplanets
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Submit an abstract to our #AbSciCon2022 session on the development and application of habitability models for Earth, the Solar System, and exoplanets. Deadline next Wednesday January 19. agu.confex.com/agu/abscicon2…
The Habitable Exoplanets Catalog (HEC) is a database of potentially habitable worlds discovered by ground and space telescopes in the last decade. Exoplanet data comes from the @NASAExoArchive. phl.upr.edu/projects/habitab… @PlanetaryHabLab @NASAAstrobio #exoplanets #astrobiology
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Today is the 10th anniversary of the Habitable Exoplanets Catalog. phl.upr.edu/projects/habitab… #exoplanets #astrobiology
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Join ASAP: The Arecibo Science Advocacy Partnership (ASAP) is a team of scientists and educators from Puerto Rico and around the world, working on the long-term sustainability of the Arecibo Observatory. areciboscience.org/ #AreciboRenace #AreciboReborn @NAICobservatory
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Our #AbSciCon2022 session is open for presentations about habitability models applied to the diversity of environments on Earth, the Solar System, and exoplanets. agu.confex.com/agu/abscicon2… #PlanetHabCollaboration @PlanetTreky @PlanetaryRocks
Our @PlanetaryHabLab is working on one of #Astro2020 proposed needs: "Interdisciplinary theory on a comprehensive multifactorial framework for habitability assessment" (Table E.1) that is necessary to characterize habitable worlds. phl.upr.edu/planethab
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