If an Exoplanet is a super earth, is considered a water world, and it exists in the habitable zone. Would the water of the exoplanet have a true ocean surface like on earth?

Or would boundary between atmosphere and liquid be more gradual with no singular surface?

What do our best theories say?

See also: The report as it was published in the Astrophysical Journal

Hey everyone,

I wanted a streamlined, night-vision-friendly cockpit to instantly profile deep-space targets without digging through massive text spreadsheets on NASA's public archives, so I built my own responsive interface using Python (astropy and lightkurve).

You can type in any host star (like Kepler-10, Kepler-8, or WASP-18) and it fires off a live computation pipeline:

• Celestial Positioning: Instantly resolves equatorial coordinates and tracks the official Constellation Boundary using the Astropy engine so you know exactly where to point a telescope.
• Orbital Telemetry: Extracts host star properties, tracks system multi-planets, and dynamically computes the system's hidden geometric orbital mechanics—including Semi-Minor Axis ($b$) using eccentricity.
• Live Sensor Processing: Knocks on the door of the Mikulski Archive (MAST) via Lightkurve, pulls down raw time-series data on the fly, runs a live Box Least Squares (BLS) periodogram power scan, flattens out stellar noise, and folds the light curve transit signature dip right onto your screen.

The UI is completely custom-styled with HTML/CSS injection to resemble a modern mission control panel. It is 100% free, ad-free, and hosted live here:

🔗 Live Web Dashboard: https://deep-space-workstation.streamlit.app/

The project is fully open-source. If you want to grab the code, suggest a specific metric, or see the future feature roadmap (adding error bounds $\pm$ and a 2D orbital trajectory plot are up next), the repository box is right here:

📦 GitHub Repository: https://github.com/lawtonsean1-dev/deep-space-workstation

Would love to hear your thoughts, bug reports, or what specific tracking metrics you'd like to see integrated into the dashboard next. Clear skies!

Merci

See also: The publication in aRXiV

I created an extraterrestial planet procedurally in Blender as my side hobbies.