The Call for Applications for the “Astronomy in Africa” MSc Scholarships is now open and can be found on astronomy2024.org/africa-2024-sc… Students from any African country are eligible to apply for these scholarships. The deadline for scholarship applications is 7 October 2022. ✨🌍

Many thanks to DART - OPTiK for giving the astrophysics postgrads, Calvince Juma and Vincent of Technical University of Kenya, the opportunity to be part of the mission aimed at testing a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects.

See that plume? All four telescopes of ESO 's VLT will be looking towards the DART impact, to study the plume and obtain clues to the early Solar System ☄️🛰️ I've talked with Cyrielle Opitom and her colleagues who will lead the observations✨ eso.org/public/blog/vl…

If you are in Edinburgh and want to learn more about the #DARTMission and DART - OPTiK (and all the other exciting research going on at the Edinburgh's Royal Observatory), this weekend we are open to the public. Come along!

It's a beautiful day for the Edinburgh Doors Open Days Edinburgh's Royal Observatory! We can't wait to show you some of the amazing science that is happening here 🌟 #ROEOpen

So happy to have spotted the #DARTMission impact flash and ejecta cloud with our portable telescope in Ileret, Northern Kenya. We don’t yet know what the future holds for optical astronomy in Kenya, but we can certainly say it started with a bang! TURKANA BASIN INSTITUTE Technical University of Kenya

1/ If you've read our latest #ESOblog you’ll know that our VLT has watched the aftermath of the #DARTmission impact: 🔗 eso.org/public/blog/vl… Here's a sneak-peek of the results. First, an image taken with the MUSE instrument. Look at those plumes! 📷 ESO /Opitom et al.

Through funding from the The Royal Society, we were able to fund an intern to help us with the communications and outreach parts of the #DARTOPTiK project. We visited the local school in Ileret, and were able to get the kids to come and look through the telescope at TBI 🔭

NEWS: The Welsh school children helping NASA save the planet from asteroid strikes open.ac.uk/wales/en/news/…

From today's NASA briefing about #DARTMission, a nice demonstration of how we measure the effect of the impact using telescopes - including Physics Astro @ Edin's contribution through observations at the ESO 1.54m Danish telescope (part of H2020 Neorocks!)

PhD student Larissa Palethorpe shares her thoughts: allies, organisations and role models sometimes make all the difference…🧡

I've been told I should tweet about my first-authored paper coming out but **not in a boring way** so here goes: 🔥A TARGETED SEARCH FOR MAIN BELT COMETS🔥 now on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2211.01435 1/4

All you need to know about applying for Astro PhD studentships in Edinburgh! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🔭🌌🛰🪐jobregister.aas.org/ad/3ea6f975 I see a lot of PhD application pain on this app, so I will just point out that: 1. there is no fee to apply 2. the application form is 1-page long deadline 8 January

Want to study asteroids? Want to study comets? Want to be on #TeamRadar and a planetary defender? For the first time ever, you can do all that with me at Physics Astro @ Edin 🪨 ☄️ 📡 🔭 Project info: ifa.roe.ac.uk/phds-jobs-fell…

It's going to be a while before the results of the long-term researchers survey are published (LTRs - researchers in long-term employment on short-term contracts), so here's a short report with preliminary results: tinyurl.com/4ctnueae @PrecariousAcad1 Researchers@Ed 🧵1/6

The 2023 Annie Maunder Medal is awarded to Black In Astro ™, a grassroots organisation and community that was founded after the police violence upon Black people within the USA. It focuses on inspiring, developing, and enriching Black space scientists.

1/ 📢 First results in from ESO telescopes on the aftermath of #DART’s asteroid impact! eso.org/public/news/es… The collision was a test of #PlanetaryDefence, but also an opportunity to learn more about the asteroid’s composition. Read on👇 📷 ESO/Opitom et al.

We're 2 months away form Asteroids, Comets, Meteors and there is still no news about how much the registration fee is or how to register for the meeting. All we're hearing when reaching out to the SOC/LOC is that this is something that @usraedu LPItoday have to communicate

Congrats to the #DARTMission team for their contributions to #PlanetaryDefense! Today's issue of @nature features DART on the cover & includes scientific papers on what the team has learned since DART's impact with its target #asteroid last September: bit.ly/3KOvW6U