The post evening twilight sky is changing quite rapidly at this time of the year.
A month ago, Orion was in the south eastern sky when it was getting dark. Now it is already due south. In a month's time, Orion will already be in the south western sky by the time that it gets dark

What a great place to view the Sun from too!

Just got really good news! Gresham College have moved the rest of my talks into a bigger venue. Problem is I have to fill it now! If you're in or around London, or know people who are, please consider coming along on 21st Feb, or to one of the others: gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/radio…

Interested in our range of Masters programmes and what it's like to study at UCL Space & Climate Physics? To learn more, join our Graduate Virtual Event *this Thursday* for Postgraduate Taught Programmes. Register via the link below. 🚀
Course applications are open until 5 April.

Listen to two amazing British women leading the way at European Space Agency and NASA.

Nicky Fox - who is guest editing BBC Radio 4 Today - speaks to Carole Mundell @cmundell.bsky.social about their routes into science. Inspiring!

Interested in studying for a PhD in solar physics (and other areas of space science!) Then check out the projects we have on offer! Applications close in January ucl.ac.uk/mssl/study/phd…

Mark created an all sky tracked-stack from our 4 GMN cameras, showing all the #Geminids we captured overnight on 13th/14th December. It's so cool to see them presented this way #MeteorShower #Geminids 2023

There's still time to order Christmas gifts from the SPA Shop.
Last posting date is December 15th.

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Colors of hardwork, grit and ingenuity!!
First full disk images of Sun in various UV wavelength filter.. Captured by suitaditya payload onboard India's own spacecraft #AdityaL1 Aditya-L1 Support Cell .. We are so proud to see this ☺☺.. Kudos to ISRO IUCAA 🌞🚀🛰

New paper alert!☀️

We used Hinode/EIS observations along with simulations of the ponderomotive force to explore links between plasma composition and Alfvén wave activity in a solar active region.

The paper has just been published in ApJ: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.384…

Incredible sight. The arrival of the ejection from the Sun (the so-called CME) sets off very intense aurora.

The ESA's Euclid mission space mission, whose massive optical camera, VIS, was built by an international team led by Professor Mark Cropper MullardSpaceScience UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences, has released its first full-colour images, revealing previously unseen galaxies ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/nov/…

A reminder to submit reports for citizen science at Aurorasaurus.org can help improve aurora models and help others get alerts! Thanks @tweetaurora

Highly recommended!

Excellent afternoon in Wolverhampton celebrating the 70th Anniversary of The Society for Popular Astronomy.
Excellent opening talk by Prof. Lucie Green
Many thanks to First Light Optics and Wolves Astro Society for supporting this event.
Popular Astronomy

En route to today’s Popular Astronomy meeting. Happy 70th anniversary to the society!

Need some Sun? The check out NASA’s coverage of today’s annular solar eclipse (not seen from the U.K., sadly) go.nasa.gov/Eclipse2023

*Paper alert*
Our paper analysing two 'Solar snakes' using #SolarOrbiter and #ParkerSolarProbe observations has been published in #ApJ ! 🍾🍾
Paper is available online here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.384… Thanks to everyone involved!!

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The #OSIRISREx sample return capsule containing rock and dust collected in space from asteroid Bennu has arrived at temporary clean room in Utah. The 4.5-billion-year-old sample will soon head to NASA's Johnson Space Center for curation and analysis.

Touchdown has occurred in the Utah desert. Welcome to Earth!