Das #IWFGraz wünscht Frohe Weihnachten und freut sich auf neue gemeinsame Weltraumabenteuer in 2026! www.oeaw.ac.at/en/iwf/iwf/a...

Europa Clipper has observed interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS with its ultraviolet spectrograph instrument! News here: www.swri.org/newsroom/pre...

Goedemorgen Nederland (🖼️-Marten Mantel)

Our XMM-Newton has observed comet 3I/ATLAS in X-ray light! When gas molecules streaming from a comet collide with the solar wind they produce X-rays, seen here as the red glow of 3I/ATLAS 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... Blue marks empty space with little X-rays. The black line is a detector gap 🔭 🧪

Our #JUICE spacecraft captured comet #3IATLAS during its active phase, showing its glowing coma, plasma tail, and maybe even a dust tail. The full data will arrive in February, but here is a sneak preview from JUICE's navigation camera. More info 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

Finally, the revised version of our paper "Pick-up Generated Ion Cyclotron Waves Around Io" has now been submitted to @aanda-journal.bsky.social Astronomy & Astrophysics. Thanks go to my co-authors (and the referee)

The #EGU26 has opened their abstract submissions (deadline 15 January 13:00 CET) for the meeting 3 to 8 May 2026 in Vienna. 1/3

Waarom zegt Dilan niet dat het een keuze is tussen centrum rechts en links 🤔, oh wacht, heb het pas 22 keer gehoord vanavond 😂

De laatste loodjes wegen het zwaarst. Busy makig the last revisions of my Io ion cyclotron waves 🌊 paper (some co-authors just give too mucn information 😆) before sending it around to my co-authors once more. Also trying to finish my Mercury 🌕 mirror mode paper. Time for a break!⏸️

Time for vacation!

I just submitted a proposed session at the @egu.eu #GeneralAssembly #EGU26 together with @charlottestalks.bsky.social on the topic: "Space Environments of Unmagnetized or Weakly Magnetized Solar System Bodies and the Effects of Space Weather on These Systems". 1/2

Daar gaat mijn missie, en nu snel naar Jupiter, sodeju!

Eine Geschichte uber Kometenforschung am @iwf-oeaw.bsky.social : www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

Nachholtermin #AmPuls Wissenschaftstalk: "Die Sonne, das Universum und wir". Sonnenphysikerin Astrid Veronig und Wissenschaftskommunikator Norbert Siller diskutieren über die Bedeutung der #Sonne und die Geheimnisse des #Universums. ✨ 📅 3.9.2025 📌 Orpheum Extra, Graz www.fwf.ac.at/entdecken/di...

Just submitted my paper to @aanda-journal.bsky.social

#MagnetometersRock phys.org/news/2025-07...

Ein sehr schoener Beitrag in BILD DER WISSENSCHAFT ueber die Entdeckung von Litium bei Merkur. www.wissenschaft.de/.../lithium-... Siehe auch: Daniel Schmid (@iwf-oeaw.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social) et al., Nature Communications, doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-61516-4,

Goede brief uit 2004. Wat kan er veel gebeuren in 20 jaar he?

Working on, what feels like, 1 million comments from my dear co-authors on my paper "Pick-up Generated Ion Cyclotron Waves Around Io", but nearing the end now 😁 Good old #Galileo is delivering still wonderful results.

Hopefully folks have seen the NASA Mission map floating around indicating the missions that the President's FY26 Budget Request would cancel. Here is a Heliophysics division-specific figure.

imgs.xkcd.com/comics/exopl... Not making fun of colleagues 😂

@esa.int 50 years jubilee, €2.5 Belgian coin and 50 cents Dutch coin (🇳🇱 was not creative though)

BREAKING: The president's budget request just hit Congress, which could usher in a dark age for NASA space science. Congress has the final say, but you can help shape the outcome by adding your name to our global petition. This is just the start of our fight. Sign the petition: planet.ly/petition

🎉 #50yearsOfESA: to mark our 50th anniversary, the Royal Mint of Belgium and the Royal Dutch Mint are issuing limited-edition commemorative euro coins. @nl.esa.int @fr.esa.int @belspo.be @ec.europa.eu

🛰️ The Europa Clipper and JUICE missions are teaming up! 🌐 Join our webinar to discover why and how, with Robert Pappalardo and Mathieu Choukroun (NASA JPL), Claire Vallat (@esa.int), Emma Bunce (Space Park Leicester). 👉 Register on bit.ly/juice-clipper-webinar

Having lots of science fun at @issibern.ch, discussing magnetosheath structures such as Jets, Mirror Modes and Magnetic Holes.

Europe has lost its leading role in research. 32 science academies call for a strong framework programme for research and innovation ➡️ www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/offe... @ec.europa.eu @czechacademy.bsky.social @leopoldina.org @ria.ie @scienceacademyswe.bsky.social #fp10 #AlignActAccelerate #MFF

🏳️‍🌈 tusenfem ☄️🪐 Today I received my copy of the @cambridgeup.bsky.social book "Ganymede". Thanks go to my co-editors Melissa McGrath, Xianzhe Jia and Tilman Spohn. Also thanks to all the contributing authors. @iwf-oeaw.bsky.social #AustriaInSpace #ESA_JUICE cambridge.org/ganymede

@iwf-oeaw.bsky.social delegation at the opening of "view from above" (viewfromabove.at) together with astronaut-photographer @astroterry.bsky.social

It is a great week for solar system (plasma) physics. First, this week I found a box with the Comets III book (uapress.arizona.edu/book/comets-...) on my desk 🤩 and then I was notified that the Ganymede book (www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...) will be released on 20 February 😍

Good news during my vacation: my upcoming PhD student (GB) passed his last exam, now he just needs to pass his master‘s exam and he will start 1 march at @iwf-oeaw.bsky.social working on global magnetospheric dynamics, funded by @fwf-at.bsky.social. #GoPlasma #AustriaInSpace

Great book, interesting characters, worldbuilding, mysteries, only 1000+ pages :-O (late to the party, was published 2010) I hope the rest of the series continues this way.

A (final) call to all my colleagues: you have one week left to submit your abstract to the "unmagnetized and weakly magnetized solar system bodies" session at the #EGU25. Deadline: Wednesday 15 January 2025, 13:00 CET. Link: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

Daten aus dem All! Wenige Stunden vor dem 6. und letzten #Merkur-Vorbeiflug der #ESA-Raumsonde #BepiColombo analysiert das #IWFGraz bereits die ersten Daten von #SERENA-#PICAM, um mehr über die Sonnenaktivität herauszufinden. Später wird sich PICAM dann auf Merkurs #Exosphäre konzentrieren.

Good luck #Bepi & #Mio for your last #Mercury flyby 🤞

Happy birthday to JRR Tolkien. 🍻 On this day in 1892, the Professor was born!

Österreich Weltraumnation #Neujahrskonzert #SpaceWalzer @iwf-oeaw.bsky.social #austriaspace

Mit einer kleinen Jahresrückblende & -vorschau auf 2025 bedanken wir uns bei allen, die das #IWFGraz 2024 begleitet haben. Wir freuen uns auf ein ereignisreiches, neues, gemeinsames Weltraumjahr: www.oeaw.ac.at/iwf/aktuelle... Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year: www.oeaw.ac.at/en/iwf/lates...

Christmas is coming and after that the #EGU25 abstract submission deadline. Consider submitting yours in our session PS4.1 "Space Environments of Unmagnetized or Weakly Magnetized Solar System Bodies ..." before Wednesday, 15 January 2025, 13:00 CET. meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

It is apparently that time of year again that all kind of journals are sending out emails to ask you for papers, EVEN if the topic of the journal has NOTHING to do with the area of your research (e.g. today the Food & Nutrition Journal ISSN; 2575-7091). Stop it people!

So, "all" meetings finished and back to work at #IWF_Graz, detecting all the pick-up ion cyclotron waves aroud Io (exept of course during the telecons, group meetings, etc. at the office 😉)

Alle Jahre wieder, die alljährliche MITARBEITERBESPRECHUNG. Ich weiß doch, ihr habt schon drauf gewartet. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT2O...

My teams are working hard to get our next #ESA Science mission ready for launch, in collaboration with colleagues at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The joint European-Chinese #SMILE mission will study Earth's global magnetic environment & the Sun-Earth connection. www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

What would be a #JUICE #SWT without taking a look at the EM model at #ESOC? Size of VW bus.

Conclusions from the #JUICE #SWT in #Darmstadt: LEGA (Lunar Earth Gravitational Assist) was very successful for all instruments, with a few mysteries to be solved yet.

I am now at the #ESA_JUICE #SWT at #ESOC, bad weather outside so I have to sit through the afternoon session on #EMC. Well, we can send rockets to outer space, but getting a #webex session started is a whole other thing, it's not rocket science (and that is the problem).

Travelling to #Darmstadt #ESOC for the #JUICE #SWT. Unfortunately, will miss my workinggroup the first afternoon because of @prorail.bsky.social strikes. Well see you tomorrow.

Okay, back again at bluesky