MOONS Milestone 🎉 100s of fibre positioning units allow MOONS to simultaneously observe 1000 celestial objects! Co-ordinating these FPUs is a complex ballet, now the system has been tested end-to-end in the lab at UK ATC. Discover more👉 ukatc.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/MOONS-up… #MOONSToChile

I wonder what’s happening in Manchester next month 👀

Next month I’m going to be participating in Pint of Science in Manchester, come and join us for a beer or two as we discuss AI, the first galaxies and Dinosaurs! pintofscience.co.uk/event/cosmic-c… #pint24 Pint of Science UK

It's paper day! My first PhD paper is published today with MNRAS RAS Journals. I am so proud and grateful for the opportunities created by this research. You can read it here: academic.oup.com/mnras/article/…

Too much, too young, too fast? The first results from mine and Fergus Cullen's EXCELS JWST Cycle 2 programme are out today. We show beautiful new spectra for 4 ultra-massive galaxies that formed way too many stars when the Universe was way too young 1/3 arxiv.org/abs/2405.02242

Looking forward to our sellout show tomorrow night at the English Lounge in Manchester! I hope I a) don’t lose my voice or b) get crushed by falling aircon at the co-op arena tonight seeing Elbow 🤞

Incredible experience being a part of that audience 😍

Euclid celebrates first science with sparkling cosmic views! 🤩 From faint to bright, from distant to nearby, from the most massive of galaxy clusters to small planets, these images demonstrate ESA's Euclid mission 's ability to unravel the secrets of the cosmos. Access them here👉

Starship losing half a flap in reentry

Big merger paper out today - galaxy merger histories up to z = 11.5 with JWST -- quick summary - galaxy mergers build AT LEAST half of all galaxy mass in the first Gyr. It's not all star formation! arxiv.org/abs/2407.09472

🎥 We're happy to share the first images from one complete SKA-Low station! The video shows a 24-hour observation, and demonstrates the high sensitivity of a single station. Imagine what we'll see when all 512 SKA-Low stations are looking at the sky in the future! #SKAscience

Just wanted to quickly advertise a really exciting new result just obtained by ALMA involving the detection (6.6 sigma) of the [OIII]88 line at z=14.1793 put together by an awesome PhD student in Leiden with the name of Sander Schouws. The [OIII]88 line detection was found by

The aurora over the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory. This was during the second burst of activity at 00:22 on the 11th October 2024. Sony A7 III / TTArtisan 11mm FIsheye #Aurora #jodrellbank #northernlights

We're still buzzing about our beautiful telescope! 🤩 #ICYMI Rubin Observatory staff recently installed the primary/tertiary mirror and officially has a complete telescope, using the commissioning camera! Read more about the installation: rubinobservatory.org/news/primary-m…

Oxford astrophysics DPhil (PhD) projects are now live on the Department of Physics at University of Oxford website, including a spectacular opportunity to work with Michele Bannister (farewell; on bsky or mastodon) & I on interstellar objects in the age of NSF-DOE Rubin Observatory. Do apply! physics.ox.ac.uk/study/postgrad…

The job ad has just gone live for a 3-year postdoc position in my group at Edinburgh University, working on high-redshift galaxy evolution with JWST and MOONS. The deadline for applications is a month today on 20th December elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candidat…

First Scientific Results from WEAVE. Using the set of first-light observations from the new WHT WEAVE wide-field spectrograph, a team led by Dr Marina Arnaudova (Univ. of Hertfordshire, UK) has presented the first scientific results. ing.iac.es/PR/press/weave…

Extragalactic astronomers! We’re organising a conference in beautiful Oxford next year from 7-11 April to discuss the latest advances in our understanding of the distant Universe, both from observations and simulations. Abstracts close 20 December: firstgalaxies.web.ox.ac.uk/home