Published in #MNRAS: "Threshold velocity of wind erosion on the surface of comet 67P", Wang et al. This is Fig. 1: please visit academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... to read the paper. @royalastrosoc.bsky.social @academic.oup.com

Great to be working with IRIS and Multi-Messenger team members at Portsmouth uni

Our next LIGO @egovirgo.bsky.social KAGRA webinar will introduce the analysis methods used for our #GWTC4 results (paper arxiv.org/abs/2508.18081) 19 February at 15:00 UTC, with the recording on YouTube after Register for free wisconsin-edu.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 🔭 ☄️ ⚛️ 🧪

Want to work in a beautiful environment with a great team on transient astronomy? The IAC (Tenerife) has a postdoctoral position in “Black holes, neutron stars, white dwarfs and their local environment” in cooperation with GOTO. Applications close 15 March www.iac.es/en/employmen...

Tomorrow marks the 10th anniversary of the announcement of our first detection! Back in 2016, excitement was building with everyone getting into the spirit with #ChirpForLIGO (thank you @astrokatie.com!) Reminisce with this supercut www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uzi... #GW10Years ⚛️🧪🔭

Here's GOTO's 2025 Wrapped with the Transient Name Server (courtesy of David O'Neill)! In 2025 we discovered 2539 new sources, up from 1543 in 2024... 6602 total observation reports to TNS (~18 per day!) up from 4060 in 2024... 301 classified (60% SN Ia) up from 218 in 2024...

Some curious locals visiting our telescope site during maintenance work. Photo by Kendall Ackley

Collaboration telescope wrangler and talented astro-photographer Krzysztof Ulaczyk's latest visit to our Siding Spring Observatory seemed to focus more on our 8-legged cohabitants, but also captured this terrific panorama shot of the GOTO-South telescopes against the Milky Way

The routine all-sky survey of our GOTO telescopes at La Palma and Siding Spring uncover all sorts of unexpected objects, including comet C/2025 A6 in this nice image from October 4, spotted by Warwick U. team member @bendgodson.bsky.social. This object may be naked-eye visible later this month

Congrats to Natasha Van Bemmel on winning an MNRAS Student Prize. The MNRAS editors selected her first‑author paper, An Optically Led Search for Kilonovae to z~0.3 with KNTraP, as one of six best student‑led publications this year, what a debut! #OzGrav #Swinburne #MNRAS #NatashaVanBemmel

#PPOD: Astronomers combined observations from three different observatories to produce this colorful, multiwavelength image of the intricate remains of Supernova 1987A. The central structure visible inside the ring in the Hubble image has now grown to roughly half a light-year across. 🧪 🔭

🧪🎢 The University of Leicester open day is tomorrow! (Saturday 5th July) Come and see how great studying Physics in Leicester would be! 🧪🎢 (Pictured, students and staff at their project presentations)

More on our recent nova detection from our citizen science partners, via Kilonova Seekers www.independent.co.uk/space/astron...

🔭 Nova V462 Lupi Now Visible Image Credit & Copyright: Matipon Tangmatitham (NARIT) apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25070...

Breaking my Bluesky hiatus to share that our paper on GOTO0650, the new dwarf nova discovered by Kilonova Seekers and followed up with a worldwide team of citizen scientists, was published today in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Read the full press release here: warwick.ac.uk/news/pressre...

Breaking space news: We have made our own solar eclipse in space! 🌘 Today, we release the first images from our Proba-3 mission, which flies two spacecraft in precise formation to create artificial solar eclipses in orbit. Learn more ➡️ www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

Collaboration members from Warwick University were on-site this month at GOTO-South, Siding Spring Observatory to perform some regular maintenance and install an all-sky camera, critical for remote monitoring of conditions. And not too bad for imaging the entire Milky Way.

It's #StrawberryMoon day! And before you scoff "but the full moon happens every month Catherine", this is the once-every-18.6-yr lunar standstill. In the Northern hemisphere the moon will rise just above the horizon (look S) before it dips back down again 1/🧵🧪🔭 ⏰ www.timeanddate.com/moon/uk/edin...

Join us Tue. June 10th for a discussion with Dr. Almudena Alonso Herrero, a senior staff scientist at the National Research Council in Spain and member of the Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences. She is an expert in star forming and active galaxies - and a professor at the VO Summer School!

21 years of Astronomy at Warwick: celebrating the legacy of Prof. Tom Marsh https://arxiv.org/pdf/2504.20954 Ingrid Pelisoli, Boris Gänsicke, Keith Horne, Danny Steeghs, Gijs Nelemans, Kevin Burdge, David Buckley, Vik Dhillon, Stuart Littlefair, Daniel Bayliss.

From Kaz Gary: For Pride Month, Astrobites is interviewing one transgender astronomer every week. This week we interviewed Dr. Eliot Halley Vrijmoet, a postdoctoral fellow at Smith College! 🔭✨☄️ astrobites.org/2025/06/06/e...

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