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This event is in the past.It took place on April 8, 2026 at Green Earth Sciences.

Puffy Venuses and their others: the puzzles of irradiated, underdense rocky worlds 1
Educational Talk
Puffy Venuses and their others: the puzzles of irradiated, underdense rocky worlds 2

Puffy Venuses and their others: the puzzles of irradiated, underdense rocky worlds

Stanford

Bo Peng unpacks "puffy Venuses"—strange low-density exoplanets that might host magma oceans wrapped in thick carbon atmospheres. The talk makes cutting-edge planetary science feel surprisingly approachable.

Cutting-edge astronomy
Planetary science lecture
Free Stanford event
Magma ocean worlds

Tips

💻watch online if you can't make it to campus
🌋magma oceans are real and wild
🔭bring questions about alien atmospheres

Green Earth Sciences

367 Panama St, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

Free

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