Next assignment: making sure summer starts with ~15000 other people on a bridge in Oxford tomorrow morning #maymorning

Brilliant event Natural History Museum this evening sharing surprising stories, including the dinosaur egg misclassified for more than 150 years.

‘Is it aliens?’: how a mysterious star could help the search for extraterrestrial life theguardian.com/science/2024/a…

Fairly extraordinary filming venue today. Any guesses where?

Astronomers: Does anyone have a public domain visualization of a Dyson swarm I could use?

Planet Hunters NGTS (Planet Hunters NGTS) has found five new planet candidates! You can read the paper announcing these discoveries in the Astronomical Journal now and read on below for a summary thread of the paper. doi.org/10.3847/1538-3… [1/15]

More The Zooniverse planet discoveries! Congratulations to Sean and all the volunteers.

If fellow academics or students can help my friend out with her research into plagiarism in the age of AI, I’d appreciate it

Jupiter from the James Webb Space Telescope

chrislintott As Shakespeare wrote, 'well shone, Moon.'

The Moon doing its thing really well right now. Well done Moon.

Turns out if you walk through Cambridge talking on the phone about how to detect aliens, passers by join in.

‘As the Sun’s disc narrowed, things became distinctly odd. The drop in temperature had been obvious for a while, but now colours, especially red and green, faded, giving the world a washed-out aspect.’

chrislintott on the total eclipse: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…

‘The award for pithiest short description of an eclipse goes to the scribe who described an 1133 event as “miserabilis, horribilis, nigra, mirabilis”: wretched, horrifying, black, remarkable.’

Astrophysicist chrislintott on the eclipse:
lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/…