MISSION #Juice #Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer Phase: #Lunar #Earth Gravity Assist 2024-08-19 >> 2024-08-20 JUICE Monitoring Camera Picture The JMC units provides bayerised images with a specific Bayer filter using four colours archives.esac.esa.int/psa/#!Table%20… ESA/Juice/JMC/j. Roger

This is fantastic news for Rum, and for lovers of proper dark skies. Lovely to see some photos by Steve Gray of our friends at the Steven Gray FRAS too! bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Excellent to see this episode of Infinite Monkey Cage out! Let me know what you think.

If anyone fancies buying (part of) a football club then do join us: (no chance of financial return, lifetime of frustration guaranteed, highly recommended)

Is there anybody out there? 🛸🔭👽 Glastonbury Festival gets involved in the search for Alien Life! chrislintott Lisa Kaltenegger & Russell Kane join Brian Cox and Robin to discuss how we are looking for extraterrestrial life & how microwaves get in the way! bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0…

Hallelujah. NASA’s Chandra observatory saved in the nick of time.

Another epic weekend Camp Wildfire! 🏕 Highlight for me was chrislintott and stevepretty’s blend of astronomy and music 🌌🎺 Who knew you could learn about the universe through jazz? Exemplary scicomm 💯 #CampWildfire

Update on #CometA3 (C/2023 A3)! Just before it gets too close to the Sun, recent @unistellar network observations suggest it could peak at -1.1 magnitude—if it survives perihelion. 🌟 Big thanks to our The SETI Institute citizen scientists! Let’s catch it in a month, fingers crossed

The most emotional moment tonight - watching #ESA #astronaut and #Paralympics athlete John McFall bear the paralympic flag, from the public viewing area along Champs Elysee. Background: independent.co.uk/news/uk/britis… #Paris #Paralympics2024

If you’re round Peterborough/Stamford way next Thursday, one of my favourite astronomers, Prof chrislintott, is giving a talk as part of Oundle Festival of Literature. He is a fantastic speaker and £8 is an absolute bargain of an evening out! ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/oundl…

Very pleased to have been awarded 'Boffin' status by the Daily Star: dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-ne…

With astronomy job season approaching, if you're a PhD or early postdoc, PLEASE make a webpage and put your current contact details on it, so that searching for "<your name> astronomer" finds you first - more explanation how and why here: kenworthy.space/advice/

Everyone is freaking out over this, but there are many logical explanations. Although Starliner is *most* likely haunted, it could also be aliens, space whales, sophon interference, forever lost cosmonauts banging on the hatch begging to be let in, or simply the Babadook.

Single best description of AI I’ve ever read, from the great Ted Chiang.

This is good news. BepiColombo will now take longer than planned to reach Mercury... but it will get there

New euphemism for being late: ‘BepiColombo’s journey to Mercury becomes even more epic’

chrislintott I will use that at work. My project outline is overdue as it is even more epic

A pulsing sound from a speaker in Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft heard by NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore aboard the International Space Station has stopped. The feedback from the speaker was the result of an audio configuration between the space station and Starliner. The space

Only a few tickets left for next Wednesday’s Gresham College lecture: they’re free, but grab them now (or sign up to watch online!) gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/mirro…

Stunning from Beamish Museum