CERNQ52 = 2026 RW1: Impact Confirmed! gfo.rocks/blog/2026/06... @imometeors.bsky.social @operations.esa.int
Whoa! Simultaneous papers announcing the discovery of a new directly imaged planet - beta Pictoris d!!! arxiv.org/pdf/2606.23801 arxiv.org/pdf/2606.23789 It's just so BIG. I can't believe it's just so ROUND, it's like OUT THERE. 🪐 (Courtesy of my kids who have just discovered Sir Mix-A-Lot)
youtu.be/qmbQtQ61CGY 🔭 AAS Journal Author Series: Sophie Deam and Michele Bannister on 2026PSJ.....7...88D Sophie Deam (Curtin University, University of Canterbury) and Michele Bannister (University of Canterbury) chat about their article on interstellar comet 2I/Borisov,
AAS Journal Author Series: Sophie Deam and Michele Bannister on 2026PSJ.....7...88D
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The bit I love about astronomical observations is the potential to find the unexpected. This is a result that's not on my bingo card for occultation studies. A research group in Japan has found a Kuiper belt object with a tenuous atmosphere that shouldn't be there, but it is.
A tiny world beyond Neptune has an atmosphere that shouldn't exist
A team of professional and amateur Japanese astronomers have found evidence for a thin atmosphere around a small body in the outer solar system. The object is so small that it should not have a sustai...
phys.org
Back in 2024, the regional Global Meteor Network-enabled network, Fireball Aotearoa, tracked a brilliant fireball over New Zealand and we quickly reconstructed its trajectory and computed the meteorite strewn field.
This Meteorite Discovery Should Have Been Impossible
YouTube video by Out There Learning
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Behold this most serious paper, in submission to Acta Prima Aprilia. A three-way collaboration with @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, myself & Laura Revell 🛰️🐄🤠🔭
Cow-culation: Reentry Impact Risk to Livestock in the Satellite Megaconstellation Era
The commercial space industry is launching more satellites into Low Earth Orbit every year. Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) has a thriving dairy and cattle industry. Unfortunately, these industries could co...
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I think there is no better first bsky post than sharing the awesome outback adventure our PhD students went on. They found a space rock using a drone! 1/X gfo.rocks/blog/2025/12...
