It's a busy week at Archaeology, Environmental Changes & Geo-Chemistry's FLUX team! Among the ongoing activities, Deepak and Trygve are hunting and verifying potential micrometeorite finds from two different deserts! ☄️✨

Fun results on the mineralogy of asteroid #Bennu led by NHM Meteorites Science at the Natural History Museum nature.com/articles/s4158…

The hunt for micrometeorites continues! Below is a selection of nine cosmic spherule candidates found recently in sand from a hot desert! These range from about 30-150 microns in size☄️

The Belspo funded ULTIMO research project with support from our team spent a month by the Belgica Mountains in East Antarctica hunting for meteorites. They overcame many obstacles to find 115 pieces! Follow the link below to see the full length video. bit.ly/41mLqsh

Helton+ report the photometric detection with JWST/MIRI of the distant spectroscopically confirmed galaxy JADES-GS-z14-0 at z > 14 . The inferred properties suggest rapid mass assembly and metal enrichment during the earliest phases of galaxy formation. nature.com/articles/s4155…

My largest cosmic spherule candidate to date! Crossing my fingers! ☄️✨😃

Saturn has 128 newly-discovered moons. Here they are color-coded by their MPEC release. Orange: MPEC 2025 E153, Purple: MPEC 2025-E154, Green: MPEC 2025-E155.

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Astronomers have discovered Andromeda XXXV, the smallest and faintest galaxy ever observed, located ~ 3 million light-years away, orbiting the Andromeda galaxy. This dwarf galaxy is about a millionth the size of the Milky Way: "a perfectly functional human being that's the size

🎬✨ Film Premiere! Our documentary "De dag dat het zonlicht niet meer scheen”, will open #ScienceVille at DOCVILLE Filmfest this Thursday! This film is based on the Science Pitch by Cem Berk Senel and me on our recent Nature Geoscience paper on the #dinosaur mass extinction. VUB

It was really fun to observe some of "my" cosmic spherule finds up close, as well as those of my fellow collegues, especially with the SEM! 😊☄️

Did you know anyone can discover comets in images taken by the CCOR-1 telescope aboard NOAA's #GOES-19 satellite? Read more about the early success of CCOR-1 as a comet hunting tool in my latest blog post! 😃☄️skyhuntblog.wordpress.com/2025/03/30/ama…

New bright comet SWAN25F 2025-04-06 UT 2.50 LRGB 16/5/5/5 min 11"/2.2 RASA QHY600 Michael Jäger, Gerald Rhemann

It's nearing the end of another productive week! Today's post features Fien and Samuele hunting for cosmic spherules, as well as Trygve measuring micrometeorites using the Raman spectrometer! Included is also an image showing *some* finds made by Sam this week! ☄️☄️

C/2025 F2 Swan under fullmoon conditions 2025 april 13 2.45 UT 10min 14"/4.2 QHY600 Jäger, Rhemann, Prosperi

In addition to the poster presentations, Fien, Lisa Krämer Ruggiu, Samuele and Trygve Prestgard presented their talks today on modern and fossil micrometeorites, as well as tektites! We are all grateful to have had the opportunity to present at Goldschmidt2025! ☄️

Had an incredible time at @Goldschmidt2025! We are delighted, and grateful, to have been able to present our ongoing research on micrometeorites. Here’s a group photo with all the participants! 😊☄️

Surprise! A bright new comet is entering darker skies, with a relatively close approach with Earth (~0.25 AU) in October! Read more about this discovery (provisionally designated SWAN25B) in my latest blog post! 😄 #CometWatch #ESA #NASA skyhuntblog.wordpress.com/2025/09/14/a-b…

And also congratulations to our #post_doctorate members (Lisa Krämer Ruggiu, Samuele, and Trygve Prestgard) for presenting their ongoing work on fossil #micrometeorites at the #EPSC2025! ☄️ Archaeology, Environmental Changes & Geo-Chemistry

Lastly, the FLUX PhD and Post-docs wrapped up their week at the #EPSC2025 with a few group photos! 📸 Archaeology, Environmental Changes & Geo-Chemistry Lisa Krämer Ruggiu Trygve Prestgard