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Pint of Science UK @pintofscience.uk · last wk.

🧑‍🚀Cambridge - NASA astronaut Steve Swanson is coming to you! Come and hear his journey into space! Children welcome. 📅Fri 13 Nov, 6.30pm to 8.30pm 📍Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge CB3 0HA 🎟️https://pintofscience.co.uk/event/steve-swanson-cambridge-26/ with @cambridgeastro.bsky.social

An evening with astronaut Steve Swanson - Cambridge

Have you ever wondered what it really takes to be an astronaut and what it's like to go into space? Well now's your chance with former NASA astronaut Steve…

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Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge @cambridgeastro.bsky.social · 3w ago

Amazing moon photo, taken by PhD student Dily Duan Yi Ong through the IoA's 16" telescope!

Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge @cambridgeastro.bsky.social · 3w ago

Amazing moon photo, taken by PhD student Dily Duan Yi Ong through the IoA's 16" telescope!

Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge @cambridgeastro.bsky.social · 4w ago

"Is Cosmology in Crisis?" Public Talk coming up in Cambridge, see for details: sites.google.com/cam.ac.uk/ka...

KAS2026

A meeting of the global Kavli Astrophysics community: Building synergies for the future of astrophysics

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Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge @cambridgeastro.bsky.social · 4w ago

"Is Cosmology in Crisis?" Public Talk coming up in Cambridge, see for details: sites.google.com/cam.ac.uk/ka...

KAS2026

A meeting of the global Kavli Astrophysics community: Building synergies for the future of astrophysics

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Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge @cambridgeastro.bsky.social · last mo.

Is Cosmology in Crisis? Public talk, Tuesday 8th September, more info: sites.google.com/cam.ac.uk/ka...

KAS2026 - Public Talk

To attend the public talk, please book your place here. You can find the poster for the public talk here.

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Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge @cambridgeastro.bsky.social · last mo.

Is Cosmology in Crisis? Public talk, Tuesday 8th September, more info: sites.google.com/cam.ac.uk/ka...

KAS2026 - Public Talk

To attend the public talk, please book your place here. You can find the poster for the public talk here.

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Forming Worlds Lab @formingworlds.space · 2mo ago

"Constraining the lives and times of exoplanets through evolutionary Bayesian retrievals", by @nichollsh.bsky.social (@cambridgeastro.bsky.social), @timlichtenberg.bsky.social, Ben Riegler, Robb Calder and @vincefort.eurosky.social. Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal.

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RAS Journals @rasjournals.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Giorgia Busso is speaking at NAM26 on "Gaia DR4: a glimpse on the photometric content". Giorgia is a co-author on "CETRA: a fast, sensitive exoplanet transit detection algorithm implemented for GPUs" academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... #MNRAS @royalastrosoc.bsky.social

The three periodic transit signals identified by CETRA in the TESS 20 s cadence PDCSAP light curve of HD 101581. Points are the detrended light curve, error bars are the detrended light curve binned to 5-min cadence, and the solid line is the maximum-likelihood transit model found by CETRA.

Martin Bourne 🏳️‍🌈@astromartin.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A cool new paper led by Stephanie Buttigieg (PhD Student @cambridgeastro.bsky.social) is on the arXiv! We compare GWB predictions from the FABLE simulation to NANOGrav's 15yr data, finding that they agree pretty well (1–2.5σ tension). Great work, Stephanie! 🎉 #astro #astrocoding

arXiv bot (astro-ph)@krxiv-astro-ph.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Comparing gravitational wave background predictions from cosmological simulations to pulsar timing observations https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.05208 Stephanie Buttigieg, Debora Sijacki, Christopher J. Moore, Martin A. Bourne, Alberto Sesana.

Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge @cambridgeastro.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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Cambridge astronomers play leading role as world's most ambitious sky survey begins

Astronomers at the University of Cambridge are celebrating the formal start of the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), which has started capturing data from a mountaintop in Ch...

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Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge @cambridgeastro.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Read about IoA involvement in the LSST: www.ast.cam.ac.uk/news/cambrid...

Cambridge astronomers play leading role as world's most ambitious sky survey begins | Institute of Astronomy

Astronomers at the University of Cambridge are celebrating the formal start of the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), which began capturing data last night from a mountaintop ...

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Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge @cambridgeastro.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Read about IoA involvement in the LSST: www.ast.cam.ac.uk/news/cambrid...

Cambridge astronomers play leading role as world's most ambitious sky survey begins | Institute of Astronomy

Astronomers at the University of Cambridge are celebrating the formal start of the Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), which began capturing data last night from a mountaintop ...

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Cambridge UL Special Collections @theulspeccoll.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Our latest blog is all about newly catalogued material in the Royal Greenwich Observatory archive. specialcollections-blog.lib.cam.ac.uk?p=31753

Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge @cambridgeastro.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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Professor Vasily Belokurov awarded 2026 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics | Institute of Astronomy

IoA Professor Vasily Belokurov has been jointly awarded the 2026 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics with Amina Helmi from the University of Groningen and Rodrigo Ibata from the University of Strasbourg “for ...

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University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 4mo ago

Congratulations to Cambridge researchers Prof Vasily Belokurov @cambridgeastro.bsky.social and Prof Christine Holt @pdncambridge.bsky.social on being awarded the 2026 #KavliPrize 👏 Read more about their achievements 👉 https://bit.ly/4a9KoUL @kavliprize.bsky.social

Professor Christine Holt (left) with short grey hair and glasses, wearing a white lab coat, and smiling.

Professor Vasily Belokurov (right) with short hair and glasses is also smiling and wearing a light green shirt with a pin.

The text above reads: "Two Cambridge researchers receive Kavli award".

Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University (SLCU)@slcuplants.bsky.social · 4mo ago

🌍 Are we alone in the universe? Join Prof Nikku Madhusudhan from @cambridgeastro.bsky.social for a Branching Out public talk on the search for life beyond the Solar System 🗓 Thu 4 June, 1pm BST 📍 Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge UK 💻 Also via Zoom More details: www.slcu.cam.ac.uk/events/searc...

Large blue earth-like planet in foreground with small red star like object in far distance with black background and stars representing the universe. Text reads: Free public Talk. The search for life beyond the solar system. With Professor Nikku Madhudhan, University of Cambridge. Thursday 4th June at 13:00 British Summer Time, Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge UK and online. Free but booking recommended.

Two large planets above ocean of another planet with blue background hinting that the planets are covered in water. Text reads: Are we alone? How do we find and study distant worlds? What makes a planet habitable? What signs of life can we detect?

Photo of Professor Nikku Madhusudhan standing in front of a screen of a nebula. Text reads: About the speaker. Nikku Madhusudhan is Professor of Astrophysics and Exoplanetary Science at the University of Cambridge. He is widely known for pioneering atmospheric retrieval methods for exoplanets and is leading the hycean paradigm in the search for life beyond Earth.

Black background with text: Join us on Thursday 4th June at 13:00 British Summer Time at the Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge UK or join online via Zoom. Free but booking recommended. Book your place on the website at www.slcu.cam.ac.uk. This event is part of the Branching Out public talk series hosted by the Sainsbury Laboratory Cambridge University.

Sera Markoff @profsera.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Last week Thursday was my inaugural lecture here at @cambridgeastro.bsky.social (it's been a whirlwind with family in town so only posting about it now). The talk is about #blackholes 🧪🔭, pitched for non-experts, and you can follow it on Youtube (QR code on poster, or youtu.be/60hx7MXzxC4)!

Poster advertising the talk entitled "Staring into the heart of darkness: from theory to the direct imaging of black holes", with a photograph of me, a woman standing rather cheesily next to a telescope inside an observatory dome with wooden panelling. The yellow blocky script with my name is reminiscent of the Watchman comic :)

Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge @cambridgeastro.bsky.social · 4mo ago

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New technique could uncover the secrets of ‘ringing’ black holes

Researchers have developed a technique to analyse how black holes ‘ring’ when they collide and merge: one of the universe’s most dramatic events.

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Giorgia Busso @giobusso.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The beans have been spilled 🫘Gaia DR4 date is released! 2 December 2026, mark the date for another overwhelmingly huge release www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/dat...

University of Cambridge @cam.ac.uk · 5mo ago

A fully immersive pop-up planetarium experience is coming to schools across the East of England – completely free for pupils 🚀 Astronomers at @cambridgeastro.bsky.social say it will revolutionise how they inspire the next generation of scientists. Find out more 👇 https://bit.ly/4sBgEpW

Two people stand smiling in front of a vibrant space-themed backdrop inside a pop-up planetarium. A text overlay reads: "News: Cambridge's pop-up planetarium will take school pupils to the stars for free".

Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge @cambridgeastro.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Our 1909 Professor Hiranya Peiris has a new Nature article titled "Large language models are not the problem". If a Large Language Model (LLM) can replicate your scientific contribution, the problem is not the LLM. Perhaps it says we should be doing something better. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Large language models are not the problem - Nature Astronomy

If a Large Language Model (LLM) can replicate your scientific contribution, the problem is not the LLM. What does it say about our field that so much of the anxiety about AI comes down to the fear tha...

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Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge @cambridgeastro.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Our 1909 Professor Hiranya Peiris appeared on The Life Scientific, talking to Jim Al-Khalili about pioneering the modern era of precision cosmology and revolutionising our understanding of the universe. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific, Hiranya Peiris on unravelling the story of the universe

Hiranya Peiris on discovering the origin and evolution of the universe.

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Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge @cambridgeastro.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Our 1909 Professor Hiranya Peiris appeared on The Life Scientific, talking to Jim Al-Khalili about pioneering the modern era of precision cosmology and revolutionising our understanding of the universe. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - The Life Scientific, Hiranya Peiris on unravelling the story of the universe

Hiranya Peiris on discovering the origin and evolution of the universe.

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Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge @cambridgeastro.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Our 1909 Professor Hiranya Peiris has a new Nature article titled "Large language models are not the problem". If a Large Language Model (LLM) can replicate your scientific contribution, the problem is not the LLM. Perhaps it says we should be doing something better. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Large language models are not the problem - Nature Astronomy

If a Large Language Model (LLM) can replicate your scientific contribution, the problem is not the LLM. What does it say about our field that so much of the anxiety about AI comes down to the fear tha...

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Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge @cambridgeastro.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Our doors are open for the 2026 Cambridge Festival Open Day! Come along between 2-6pm to launch rockets, see yourself in invisible light, have your face painted like a galaxy, and more!

Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge @cambridgeastro.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our new Plumian Professor Sera Markoff joined the Quirks and Quarks podcast to talk about her work capturing the first video of a black hole. Listen here: www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks... Plus, an accompanying article on this fascinating research: www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

Mar 7: Filming a black hole in action, and more… | CBC Radio

Astronomers are gathering footage for the first video of a black hole, sunlight can convert plastics into vinegar, giant ancient kangaroos could hop, monogamy is a key in termite societies and the "p...

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Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge @cambridgeastro.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Plato is getting ready for launch! 🧪🔭

ESA Space Science@science.esa.int · 7mo ago

Welcome to the Large Space Simulator! 🌌 Our terrestrial planet hunter, Plato, has been placed inside this ESA chamber for a series of vital tests under space‑like conditions. Discover how it is like inside Europe's largest cryovacuum chamber here 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭 🧪

Photo taken looking down into a black‑walled cylinder, at the bottom of which sits a large satellite with black panels and golden surfaces. On top of the spacecraft, we see the blue, shiny lenses of 26 large cameras. The cameras are mounted on a five‑stepped platform and arranged in four rows of six cameras, plus a top row with two cameras.

Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge @cambridgeastro.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Plato is getting ready for launch! 🧪🔭

ESA Space Science@science.esa.int · 7mo ago

Welcome to the Large Space Simulator! 🌌 Our terrestrial planet hunter, Plato, has been placed inside this ESA chamber for a series of vital tests under space‑like conditions. Discover how it is like inside Europe's largest cryovacuum chamber here 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭 🧪

Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge @cambridgeastro.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Our new Plumian Professor Sera Markoff joined the Quirks and Quarks podcast to talk about her work capturing the first video of a black hole. Listen here: www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks... Plus, an accompanying article on this fascinating research: www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks...

Mar 7: Filming a black hole in action, and more… | CBC Radio

Astronomers are gathering footage for the first video of a black hole, sunlight can convert plastics into vinegar, giant ancient kangaroos could hop, monogamy is a key in termite societies and the "p...

cbc.ca