Robert Falla-Louvét 🔭🪐🚀

@lanerobertlane.space

👀Interests: Space 🌌, astrophysics 🔭, Cricket 🏏, Weather ⛅ 🎓Specialist Knowledge: Mathematics 🧮 and Physics 🚀 Ex astris, scientia.🖖 Issued by the Met Office, on behalf of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency.

The wider issue is the peanuts UKRI is operating with. Under £10bn for the engine of the UK's research in ALL subjects should be a national disgrace. Jodrell Bank is a helpful example but we are losing so much across *every* research field. This underfunding will damage the UK for decades to come.

Robert Falla-Louvét 🔭🪐🚀@lanerobertlane.space · 2w ago

This is so stupid and short-sighted. I wonder if Burnham knows they're stripping funding from an iconic science institution in Manchester?! 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Because the IAU officially classifies a brown dwarf as a substellar object rather than a planet, anything orbiting it is circling a primary body, not a secondary planet. Therefore, by definition, it is a planet. In other words, "That's no moon".

ESO@eso.org · 2w ago

That's no moon. It's a...hang on, what should we call it? 🤔 Our VLT has revealed evidence for a moon-like object in the CD-35 2722 system. Yet this new ‘exomoon’ detection is challenging cosmic labels! 🔭 🧪 #exoplanets 1/4

The artist's impression features a small star (left) and two gaseous bodies (centre and right), set against the blackness of space. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser.

Interesting statistic. For the first time in recorded history, temperatures have reached or exceeded 35°C in three consecutive month, May, June & July.

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