Big congrats to Alexis Andrés @ALexisAndrs11, one of the very first ASPIRE summer students in Amsterdam on his first paper! Perseverance in astro obs pays off! aspire.science.uva.nl Congrats to supervisors Anton Pannekoek Institute Nathalie Degenaar & Department of Physics at University of Oxford Jakob van den Eijnden too!

1/2 UK astronomer from Warwick University Thomas Richard (Tom) Marsh, who was on an observing trip at our La Silla Observatory, was reported missing on 16 September. 🔗 eso.org/public/announc…

2/2 Ongoing search activities are being carried out by the Chilean police supported by ESO staff and British police. If anyone has any information, please contact Carabineros/PDI in Chile or +44 1926 415000 internationally

There it is, folks. The largest solar prominence I’ve ever witnessed. This is what I spent all day yesterday chasing down as it lifted off the solar chromosphere. The resulting CME was launched millions of miles into space.

ATLAS observations of the DART spacecraft impact at Didymos!

As was hinted at with #GaiaDR3 on 13 June, Gaia is expected to find dark companions of stars like dormant black holes or dormant neutron stars. Now, Gaia discovered its first black hole: Gaia BH1. The closest one to Earth! Image credit: El Badly et al. cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/iow_2…

ZTF Survey caught a black hole that launched two jets while consuming a star that passed by too close. Extremely rarely seen, ESO confirmed this to be the most distant such event ever observed! Results published nature today ztf.caltech.edu/new/ztf-makes-…

😮 Orion Spacecraft confirms Acquisition of Signal and what a view! #Artemis I is now heading home! 👏

how cool is this??

Listen to "Carlos Frenk, una de las mentes más influyentes de la ciencia moderna" by Radio Cosmo 1420. ⚓ anchor.fm/radiocosmo1420…

Absolutely insane! Yesterday's X1.1 class #SolarFlare was observed in high resolution by the NASA IRIS mission. IRIS observes with a small field-of-view, so catching the largest flares is rare. But just look at this, I haven't seen a flare observation this cool in a long time. ☀️

Still time left to apply! PhD project in astronomy @PhysAstroStAnd and AAO Astronomy: come work with me and Richard McDermid on 'The nature of dark matter and its role in shaping galaxies'. Application deadline 31 March, more details and how to apply at st-andrews.ac.uk/study/fees-and…

Now at 156% of my usual brightness! #Betelgeuse

Our Sloan Digital Sky Surveys Black Hole Mapper Reverberation Mapping working group is convening for an in-person/hybrid meeting! We are catching up on science and making plans. Here's some of our in-person BHM-RM attendees enjoying some good Greek fare after a day of science at PSU!

Our next talk, in-person and online, is on 3 November. Join us in Edinburgh or live on our YouTube channel. Echo Mapping of Supermassive Black Holes astronomyedinburgh.org/event/echo-map…