Patrick Irwin Oxford AOPP And if you want a little more 'behind the scenes' information on this study, Pat wrote an article for the Conversation that explains the process: theconversation.com/how-we-discove…

Work led by Patrick Irwin Oxford AOPP used careful characterisation of VLT visible spectra of #Uranus and #Neptune to explore their colours, revealing their subtle differences in blue hue, and an explanation for Uranus' apparent changes in average colour with Uranian season.

For more information, the paper has been published with Springer Nature in Nature Astronomy and an online version can be found here: rdcu.be/dkjP6

Check out our new paper in Nature Astronomy on the spectral characterisation of a Dark Spot on Neptune.

👀 Astronomers have observed a large dark spot in Neptune’s atmosphere, with an unexpected smaller bright spot adjacent to it

Get the gist of the discovery in our #ESOCastLight video below.

#BiteSizedAstronomy

Check out our new paper on haze and cloud in the atmospheres of Uranus and Neptune! Thanks to all my co-authors for their help in pulling this all together! physics.ox.ac.uk/news/scientist…

Scientists led by Professor Patrick Irwin Oxford AOPP explain why Uranus and Neptune are different colours.
Read all about it:
physics.ox.ac.uk/news/scientist…

Absolutely! Maarten Roos-Serote was instrumental in getting this production off the ground! Fantastic job!

Hi all - I hope you enjoy these videos as much as I enjoyed making them! With the help of lots of people!

And to round off the week, something very cool: @patrickirwin1 has been using NEMESIS to simulate the view from atmospheric descent probes for Uranus and Venus! The Venus cloud structure model I developed for my thesis gets 15 minutes of fame. www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/news/2020/07/2…

Hurrah!

Sorry - still trying to catch up with 21st Century!

Check out our cool new paper on 2.5-D retrievals from exoplanet phase curves by Pat Irwin, coauthors Vivien Parmentier, Dr Jake Taylor, Suzanne Aigrain, Âströ❖Glee and Ryan Garland, + me of course! arxiv.org/abs/1909.03233