On March 7, 2023, when astronomers detected the second-brightest gamma-ray burst yet seen, NASA’s burst-locating Swift satellite was pointed elsewhere. Astronomers quickly employed probes around the solar system to fill the observational gap. quantamagazine.org/extra-long-bla…

IC348, una bonita zona de nebulosa de emisión, nebulosas de reflexión, nubes de oscuras, galaxias, estrellas, polvo y gas. Tiene un total de 16h 30min de exposición (200x300s) con la ASI2600MC desde Yela, Guadalajara. Durante 2 noches seguidas. Espero que os guste ☺️🔭

Fotografiando una nebulosa complicada! El primer vídeo de AstroCity de 2024!!! youtu.be/hmttlUjgngY?si…

Fantastic day today at Dunsink meeting European Space Agency Director of Science Carole Mundell @cmundell.esa.int. A great opportunity to share the fantastic astro-science done in Ireland and to hear more about ESA’s vision for the next decade.

Two research associate positions in transient astrophysics, with me in Leicester UK, as part of a brand new Leverhulme Trust funded project: jobregister.aas.org/ad/a6647b6c

Dos días en la vida de una mancha solar Solar Dynamics Observatory #SDO 2024-02-22/24 Intensitygram NASA/SDO/AIA/EVE/HMI/j. Roger

We had a very early start yesterday (6am) to kick off the annual UCD Physics Astronomy field trip with our final year astro students. Loads of excitement visiting the large telescopes and walking through the tunnels to avoid the extreme cold/snow/wind when coming back at 3am

Please feel free to share the funeral arrangements. Thanks, the Wallace Family x

✨Magnetar giant flares are rare explosive cosmic events. Only 3 have been spotted in our Galaxy over the last 50 years. 🔭 Using European Space Agency's INTEGRAL space observatory, Dr Antonio Martin-Carrillo UCD Physics was among the first to notice that a recent explosive event was not what

🚀 Exciting news from space: EIRSAT-1 has made it's first gamma-ray burst detections! 🎉 🛰️ EIRSAT-1 is Ireland’s first student-built satellite from University College Dublin, designed, built, and tested by talented students as part of European Space Agency Fly Your Satellite! Programme. 🛰️ 👩‍💻 This

The effects of a fast coronal mass ejection erupted from the Sun the evening of 8 Oct 2024, are already noticeable now (10 Oct, 23:40 UT) and started to produce #Aurora #SouthernLights in #SouthAfrica, as being recorded at Boyden Observatory by our BOOTES-6 astronomical station.

👨‍🚀 UCD Centre for Space Research UCD Centre for Space Research welcomed NASA astronaut Dan Tani Daniel Tani to UCD today! #WorldSpaceWeek 🚀Speaking to a full house of UCD Physics students and school students, Dan is sharing his inspiring journey to working at #NASA and his fascinating

Happy Birthday EIRSAT-1! 🎉🛰️ One year in orbit and what a year it has been! Ireland's first satellite, built by a student-led team from UCD in partnership with European Space Agency, was launched into space in December 2023. This historic moment took the nation forward to greater participation

The Ghost of Cassiopeia! 📸 My latest image from the backyard is IC 63 and IC 59. As you can see, this emission/reflection nebulae surrounds the bright star Gamma Cassiopeiae (Navi). This is the central star in the "W" constellation of Cassiopeia in the night sky. The proximity

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) - A View from an Observatory 😃 I took this image at the ESO Paranal Observatory on January, 19. The comet is setting in the twilight next to one of the auxiliary telescopes (AT). This time, I used a 70mm lens to capture the whole scene. I hope you enjoy

Announcement of two open positions! 1. The School of Physics and UCD Centre for Physics in Health and Medicine in UCD Science University College Dublin is seeking an Assistant Prof. in Medical Physics as part of the Ad Astra Fellowship programme. For further details see job reference number 018103 here: ucd.ie/workatucd/jobs/

Our satellite is nearing the end of its mission 🥹. To mark the occasion, our beacon messages will be sending out 'new content' in the coming weeks. If you pick up our messages - please let us know! eirsat1.ie/space-poetry

Immensely proud of the whole team (current and past) for such an outstanding achievement. We said goodbye today to this little but mighty friend. What an amazing journey this has been!

Delighted to see our work on this mysterious event out. This was an incredible event that had us scratching our heads for days. The initial data pointing to an extragalactic origing came with excitement and responsibility. But we were right! And this is really a unique event.

💥🔭 Here comes the boom! UCD astronomers have co-led the discovery of a mysterious, never-before-seen cosmic explosion. A gamma-ray explosion unlike any discovered before has been observed by an international team of researchers, including astronomers from the UCD School of