A personal first - name in the credits of a BBC show :-) I worked with the production team on their "Storm Worlds" episode for the new Brian Cox Solar System series, providing a fun insight into how these shows are made: bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episod…

After so many years of chasing the aurora in the UK and never really seeing it well there’s a little bit of a tear down my eye tonight - blown away & a happy happy chappy at Seahouses BBC Weather Watchers ITV News BBC Weather BBC Springwatch RNLI Seahouses Lifeboat

The Thermal Structure and Composition of Jupiter's Great Red Spot From JWST/MIRI. buff.ly/3ZTDChm A series of stratospheric hot-spots were discovered to be co-moving with the GRS in the longitude direction; elevated phosphine and NH3 gas were observed inside the GRS.

Aurora spotted in the Leicestershire skies! Gorgeous 😍

NASA ARCHIVED - NASA Europa Clipper NASA's Kennedy Space Center From one fellow icy world explorer to another, we're keeping our fingers crossed for a smooth launch, ARCHIVED - NASA Europa Clipper! 🚀

PSA, particularly for science writers/journalists: PLEASE stop saying Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS was "last seen 80,000yrs ago", and/or "will return in 80,000yrs". Neither of these are even remotely correct! [Details to follow...]

Excellent news - several of the Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester planetary science team were asked to provide ideas, support, and reviews of this new Solar System Adventure, so it's great to see this Jury Award for NSC Creative!

So: maybe we should skip #JWST Cycle 5**, and just award twice as many hours in Cycle 4 to save thousands of people lots of work next October... (**apart from some kind of rapid response mode for unexpected discoveries...).

Heading to National Space Centre during half-term tomorrow? Join me in the Live Space gallery, where I'll be talking about NASA's Europa Clipper mission, and what we might find lurking in those dark and hidden ocean depths... spacecentre.co.uk/whats-on/missi…

One of my Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester tutees is going to be on University Challenge next week - fingers crossed for them, what an opportunity!

A new Uranus study! The Sun's variability even out at the distant planet Uranus may have misled us for decades about that planet's plasma environment (see bonus NOT-to-scale cartoon from JPL)! Good overview by Jonathan O’Callaghan below. Actual paper here: nature.com/articles/s4155…