"She was a brilliant scientist." –– Vera Rubin In 2010, Rubin published her recollections of Charlotte Moore Sitterly in the Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage. articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-...
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The UK contribution to the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory @vrubinobs.bsky.social Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST). https://www.rubin.ac.uk/
Astrophysicist Charlotte Moore Sitterly was born #OTD in 1898. She compiled extensive data on optical and later UV spectra, and her spectroscopic tables are still in use today. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 👩🔬 Image: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives / Michael A. Duncan
Have you watched the latest @greshamcollege.bsky.social lecture from @chrislintott.bsky.social yet? It's a thrilling ride from the early days of @vrubinobs.bsky.social to some of the latest images and insights. Watch it now! 🔭 youtu.be/VUJU6PjO5HE?...
The Sky at Night, Tonight: A New View of the Changing Sky - Chris Lintott
YouTube video by Gresham College
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NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...
🍂✨ It's officially (astronomical) Autumn! 🌍 At the autumn equinox, the Sun shines directly above the Earth's equator, so day and night become nearly equal in length everywhere around the world. 🍁 The 2026 autumnal equinox occurred today at 1.06am BST
It's that time of year again... Garden telescope time! 🤩🔭
What’s this? @chrislintott.bsky.social on the What Did You Do Yesterday podcast? Get a peek into the life of an astrophysicist, author and broadcaster, from dusk til dawn. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w... 🔭
Studying diffuse dwarf galaxies helps us understand how galaxies form. A new @vrubinobs.bsky.social x @zooniverse.bsky.social project seeks the keen-eyed to identify two kinds of objects in the M49 region of the Virgo Cluster: diffuse galaxies and blue blobs: 🔭 www.zooniverse.org/projects/mik...
NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory should be able to spot oceans on Earth-like alien worlds, if the geometry is just right. Plus: rainbows! (maybe) Story by me in New Scientist www.newscientist.com/article/2588...
NASA’s next major telescope might see alien oceans and rainbows | New Scientist
The upcoming Habitable Worlds Observatory should be able to spot the glint of water on habitable planets, and maybe more
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Who's up for a trip to Edinburgh!? 🔭 🏴 🪐
Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 3w ago#Edinburgh! What are you doing on Friday night? Come to my book launch at Dynamic Earth! There will be: 🍺 A bar 🎶 Music 💃 Dancing (well, I'll be dancing from all the excitement) 🪐 Planetarium 360 visuals 🧪 Science + a little bit of philosophy 🎟️: dynamicearth.org.uk/event/how-to... 🏴🔭
Great to read BBC Sky At NIght interview with Cyrielle Opitom (@physicsastronomyed.bsky.social) on why comet 3I/ATLAS is a big deal. There's also a nod to how @vrubinobs.bsky.social can help us better understand interstellar objects 🔭 www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/3i-atla...
"We had a visitor from a distant corner of our Galaxy" Scientist reveals why interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS was so special – and why we'll find many more very soon | BBC Sky at Night Magazine
Interview with astronomer Cyrielle Opitom who co-led a study of comet 3I/ATLAS using the Very Large Telescope
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At the @vrubinobs.bsky.social , snow clearing continues under bright blue skies. So good to see how progress is being made at the summit following the devastating recent snow storms. Power is being restored and services are coming back online. Watch this space... 🌞 ❄️ 🔭
The LSST:UK has a Junior Associates Network (JAN). The community of LSST:UK Consortium junior associates share knowledge, collaborate, mentor and promote their work as they get grips with the large data volumes coming from the @vrubinobs.bsky.social in LSST. 🤝 lsst-uk.atlassian.net/wiki/x/T4AuAQE
This morning's launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from the Kennedy Space Center was amazing! Roman is now on a million-mile journey to Lagrange point 2, where it will soon reveal the universe’s darkest secrets: https://go.nasa.gov/4qIa69I #NASARoman 🔭 Credit: J. Barrientes/STScI.
Another exciting step in furthering our understanding of the Universe begins… 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
'A giant leap forward': Nasa launches powerful new space telescope
The US space agency's telescope is starting a multi-year mission to create a new map of the universe and learn more about dark energy and dark matter.
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A new set of eyes is heading for the cosmos! 🚀🔭 Congrats to NASA, Space Telescope Science Institute (our sister org in AURA Astronomy), and all on the launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope! 🎉 NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory and Roman together will give us complementary views of the cosmos🌟
Hello, the telescope is named after Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first Chief of Astronomy and championed for the Hubble Space Telescope. You can learn more about Dr. Roman below. 🔭
Who is Nancy Grace Roman? - NASA Science
Known as the "mother of the Hubble Space Telescope," Nancy Grace Roman was born May 16, 1925 in Nashville, Tennessee, and died December 25, 2018.
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Great news! The new Secretary of State for Science (& business, innovation, trade) thinks us scientists are "national assets". High-5's all round! He's right that the "UK is a global leader in science & research", but only if we invest in it wisely. 1/2 🧪⚛️🔭 www.linkedin.com/posts/jonath...
When I was asked to lead the new Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, there was one question I needed an answer to straight away: ‘Will I get to meet Brian Cox?’ Well, this week,…...
When I was asked to lead the new Department for Business, Innovation, Science and Trade, there was one question I needed an answer to straight away: ‘Will I get to meet Brian Cox?’ Well, this week, ...
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BBC Science Focus magazine has published a round up of the best images from @vrubinobs.bsky.social since it released the First Look images a year ago. Feast your eyes... 🔭 www.sciencefocus.com/space/vera-c...
The world’s largest camera has taken its most mind-blowing images yet | BBC Science Focus Magazine
The Vera C Rubin Observatory has the largest digital camera ever built. Here are the most stunning images from its mission to map the universe.
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Looking for a reason to avoid the next task on your to-do list? Try a one-minute sky survey! Space Surveyors is a new game from @vrubinobs.bsky.social Seek out stars, galaxies, supernovae, comets, asteroids and watch out for the clouds! 🔭 spacesurveyors.app
Fun paper on when to submit your paper to arXiv Main finding? Don't submit on the weekend (if you want max citations) arxiv.org/abs/2608.11268
I wouldn't call myself a cartoonist, but I had the vision and just needed it to be on paper to the best of my ability.
Join us on Wednesday for live coverage of the total solar eclipse! Live from Javalambre, Spain, from 19:30 CEST with: 🎤 interviews 📹 explainers 🔭 telescope feeds 🚁 drone shots 🔴 live feeds from different locations Details: www.esa.int/Science_Expl... #EuropeanSolarEclipse
Happy solar eclipse day! ☀️🌒 This evening people across the UK will be treated to the country's fullest solar eclipse since 1999. Around 90-96% of the Sun will be obscured by the Moon at the peak, which will take place at around 19:00 BST, depending on where you are. Are you going to watch it? 😎
Three ways to watch the solar eclipse safely without glasses. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Three ways to watch the solar eclipse safely without glasses
With some shops running out of stock, it may be too late to buy eclipse glasses - but you can still safely watch the spectacle using some household items.
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