Are you interested in symbiotic stars, or other related strange binaries? Come to Prague at the beginning of June next year! We are organizing the conference 'Symbiotic stars, weird novae, and related embarrassing binaries'! symbiotics2024.cuni.cz

#nomination Félicitations à François Mignard, élu membre de la prestigieuse Académie des sciences !👏 📌 Lire le communiqué officiel : swll.to/zYSElP

🥳🎂 ESA Gaia celebrates its tenth anniversary since launch🚀 👇Let’s look at the #GaiaMission in numbers

On 15 January, #Copernicus #Sentinel3 🇪🇺🛰️ captured this beautiful image of the British Isles ⬇️#Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 was covered with snow, and there were only few clouds above most of our friends and followers in/around the UK 🇬🇧 and Ireland 🇮🇪

Congratulations to the eROSITA consortium on the first #eROSITA #AllSkySurvey data release 👇🏽

The Inaugural Lecture of Hiranya Peiris, Professor of Astrophysics (1909), 'Decoding the Cosmos', is available to watch on YouTube! youtube.com/watch?v=M8jXPs…

We are so excited to be welcoming Prof Helen Mason Helen Mason & Dr Matt Bothwell Matt Bothwell to Great Heath tomorrow. Y5 will be taking part in a #SunSpaceArt workshop, focusing on astronomy and the sun. #greatlearning

ESA has helped Samsung Deutschland turn exciting information about planets in our Solar System into fact-filled new watch faces for #GalaxyTime... esa.int/About_Us/Brand…

At 9:00 am, our #GaiaMission consortium will announce an exciting discovery we made while validating the Gaia data! Check out ESA's #GaiaMission page: cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia with explanations, graphics and videos!.

We're sending a star into space! George Mason University is the home of the $19.5 million Landolt Space Mission that will put an artificial "star" in orbit around the Earth. Read more: science.gmu.edu/LandoltRelease

This is Buddo. The earliest depiction of a human figure found anywhere in the British Isles. It is made out of whale bone and can be found in the Stromness Museum on Orkney. At 4,900 years old it comes from a time when mammoths still walked the Earth 🦣 . #neolithic #Orkney

While training undergraduates, a special sample of #GaiaData was obtained... and what, to their wondering eyes, appeared? An interesting duo: an ultracool subdwarf with a white dwarf companion, and they belong to the halo! Story: cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/iow_2… youtube.com/shorts/idEtH2D…

Game on! 👾🕹️ We are are at Gamescom, the world's biggest video game event. Come find us at our stand in the careers area of Koelnmesse in Hall 10.2 where you can: 👾🕹️Try our VR experience that we use to train our astronauts. 📸 👨‍🚀 Take a photo in a Starfield suit. 🎮

Gaia essay 191. Extinction. Extinction is important in determining stellar parameters from spectral modelling, and central in describing the distribution of gas and dust in the solar neighbourhood. I will summarise what has been measured with Gaia so far wix.to/n3tltBm

New JWST image shows five duplicate images of galaxies 🤨 #space #nasa #astronomy #science

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Are you in central London tomorrow and keen to explore the wonders of the night sky? 🌃 If so, why not come along to Art After Dark, a free late-night event which will blend surreal public art with the beauty of space science... 🎨🔦 ⤵️

Wow! “a decommissioning strategy that involved systematically picking apart and disabling the layers of redundancy that have safeguarded Gaia for so long, because we don’t want it to reactivate in the future and begin transmitting again if its solar panels find sunlight”

🔭 The IAC leads the first results from #NIRPS, the new infrared planet hunter. 🌍 Detects Earth-like planets in IR for the first time with <1 m/s precision. ✅ Confirms a planet with 1/3 Earth's mass orbiting Proxima Centauri. 📄 5 papers in A&A 🔗 iac.es/en/outreach/ne…