NASA announced the results of Step 1 of the Astrophysics Probe competition. Unfortunately Line Emission Mapper (LEM) X-ray Probe was not selected. We want to thank our amazing Team of 300+ scientists, engineers, and program managers, administrators, who dedicated 2 years to developing the LEM concept! (1/2)

Obviously v tough to take - I was really proud of our LEM white paper on solar system X-rays and the Line Emission Mapper (LEM) X-ray Probe proposal felt phenomenally well put together by an amazing team. But AXIS X-ray Probe is a really exciting mission and I have fingers firmly crossed for them in the next phase.

We’re kickstarting our 10th year of Orbyts with hubs in London, Newcastle, Leicester, Warwick, Edinburgh, and Kent! Hooray! 🎉 We’re looking forward to yet another year of amazing science!

We have 6 amazing Orbyts space research projects ready for schools in the Warwick/Coventry area, and still a couple spaces. If you're a teacher and would like a scientist to support your students with doing some research, please get in touch. More info: orbyts.org/impact

Students from Blenheim High School and Fellow rebeccawarrilow from MullardSpaceScience embarked on a fascinating project to identify regions on Mars that may have once harboured habitable conditions! Interested? Check out their conference video here! youtu.be/xvLNFnSNBig #OrbytsConference2024

Students from St. Bernard's High School Westcliff along with Fellow Connor J Ballard from MullardSpaceScience have taken a significant step towards understanding the potential to identify life on Mars using microbialites from Lake Salda, Turkey🦠🔬Check it out! youtu.be/W2tLmVKlGck #OrbytsConference2024

A group of young astronomers from Prendergast Ladywell , guided by Fellow Amara Mighty, embarked on a journey to explore stellar nurseries and to understand how different galaxies fuel star formation! 🌌 Check out their conference video!: youtu.be/ogS6SbOO86M #OrbytsConference2024

Could the moons of Uranus be home to life? A new study says maybe. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

A reanalysis of the 1986 Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus shows that it occurred during an extreme compression of the planet’s magnetosphere by the solar wind. This would have had significant effects on the measurements made during the flyby. Dr Jamie Jasinski et al.: nature.com/articles/s4155…

When I flew by Uranus in 1986, my readings of its magnetosphere confounded scientists – but new analysis shows that it was all a cosmic coincidence and that, if I arrived just a few days earlier, I'd have observed a completely different environment: go.nasa.gov/3YIaLKD -V2

My excellent friend Dr Jamie Jasinski discovered that lots of Uranus's mysterious behaviour that we've talked about for decades, based on Voyager 2s flyby, happened during really extreme solar wind conditions. It's out today here: nature.com/articles/s4155… . May be some news coverage.

Great to see this work led by CPS alumus Dr Jamie Jasinski Dr Jamie Jasinski NASA JPL, including CPS co-authors Dr Will Dunn Dr William Dunn and Prof Nick Achilleos and CPS alumni Dr Tom Nordheim NASA JPL and Dr Leonardo Regoli Johns Hopkins University APL 👇nature.com/articles/s4155… 🌞 🧲 🪐🤩

Trying the switch to Blue Sky as AstroWillDunn