Astronimouse
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A mouse living in the old Cambridge Observatory. I love old books and everything astro-historical.
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Nature Astronomy
about 17 hours ago
Our special November issue, celebrating 30 years of exoplanets, is now here!
https://bit.ly/483MH9I
#astronomy
#exoplanets
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Met Office - weather and climate
about 16 hours ago
Stepping outside during your lunch break? 🌨️ Here's the latest showing where the rain, sleet and hill snow is ⤵️
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Milton Keynes Astronomical Society
about 14 hours ago
The Soul Nebula (IC1848) by Simon Edwins, taken last night. The image here is a stack of 36x 8-minute subs. The image was taken through a 50mm RedCat 51 refractor.
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Cambridge University Library
about 18 hours ago
📚 The Really Popular Book Club has two fantastic reads coming up! 📖 25 November The Tap Dancer by Andrew Barrow 📖 16 December The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis 🎟️ FREE tickets — register here to join us online:
https://loom.ly/PlR2sr0
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Do any other libraries collect newspaper clippings? We cut out anything we find on astronomy and put them on the board.
about 18 hours ago
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Do any other libraries collect newspaper clippings? We cut out anything we find on astronomy and put them on the board.
about 18 hours ago
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ESO
about 21 hours ago
A section of Ara OB1, a stellar association, is visible in this image. Stellar associations are large groupings of loosely bound stars that have not yet completely drifted away from their initial formation site. Read more: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1510/ 🔭 📷 ESO
#Flashback
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The Independent
about 18 hours ago
‘Vast’ Bronze Age settlement uncovered for first time by archaeologists
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‘Vast’ Bronze Age settlement uncovered for first time by archaeologists
‘Vast’ Bronze Age settlement uncovered for first time by archaeologists
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/archaeology-bronze-age-kazakh-steppe-b2863705.html?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Bluesky#Echobox=1763461347
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The last issue of the year of 'Journal for the History of Astronomy' has arrived in the Library today. Reminds me of Michael Hoskin, who launched the journal and edited it for over forty years!
about 19 hours ago
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The last issue of the year of 'Journal for the History of Astronomy' has arrived in the Library today. Reminds me of Michael Hoskin, who launched the journal and edited it for over forty years!
about 19 hours ago
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Buckinghamshire Archives
1 day ago
It's the third week of Buckinghamshire History Festival and we have even more brilliant events for you to enjoy! For more info and to book your tickets, head to
histfestbucks.co.uk
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RTÉ News
1 day ago
Two long-lost organ pieces written by a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach have been unveiled in Germany in a discovery described as a "great moment for the world of music"
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Two newly discovered Bach organ works unveiled in Germany
Two long-lost organ pieces written by a teenage Johann Sebastian Bach have been unveiled in Germany in a discovery described as a "great moment for the world of music".
https://www.rte.ie/news/newslens/2025/1117/1544467-bach-works-germany/
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Peter Coles
1 day ago
Principia for Sale With Christmas approaching, you may be looking for gift ideas so I thought I would pass on this advertisement: The book concerned is a First Edition of the Continental Issue of Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, dated 1687. For more details see here. The…
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Principia for Sale
With Christmas approaching, you may be looking for gift ideas so I thought I would pass on this advertisement: The book concerned is a First Edition of the Continental Issue of Isaac Newton's Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, dated 1687. For more details see here. The estimate is "only" €100,000, which seems to me a bit on the low side.
http://telescoper.blog/2025/11/17/principia-for-sale/
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ESA Space Science
1 day ago
A
#CosmicVision
mission,
#ESALISA
will be first gravitational wave detector in space. LISA will study these ripples in the fabric of space-time emitted during the most powerful events in the Universe, such as pairs of black holes coming together and merging. 1/
#CM25
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ESA Space Science
2 days ago
Hubble has returned to the ‘Lost Galaxy’, a spiral galaxy about 50 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. Its nickname comes from the fact that it’s extremely faint when viewed through a small telescope. Not the case for Hubble though! Read more 👉
esahubble.org/images/potw2...
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Royston Museum
3 days ago
🎄What's happening at the Museum in December?🎄 ❄️Christmas decoration making with Crafted Connections 🌟 Kids festive printing workshops 🎁Make your own cards and gift tags on our Victorian printing press For full details, visit our website:
www.roystonmuseum.org.uk/what-s-on
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans
3 days ago
Had a few enquiries recently about
#Seestar
smart-telescopes for
#scicomm
or xmas gifts for keen-kids. If you are lucky enough to have the cash (£369), these are a great investment & super easy to use. 👇These images were all taken in just a few mins in the light polluted city of Edinburgh. 🤩🔭
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans
3 days ago
Want to make a wish on a shooting star?
#DoLookUp
! The
#Leonids
meteor shower is peaking, courtesy of the Earth ploughing through the debris left by Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. 🔭🧪 1 Get away from streetlights 2 Take blanket ☕ 3 Lie back - 10 mins 👁️ dark adapt 4 🌠Wow
www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/me...
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Look Up to See the Leonids Light Up the Night Skies
Check out our meteor shower animation to find out how, where, and when to see these shooting stars.
https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/meteor-shower/leonids.html
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Met Office - weather and climate
4 days ago
After an exceptionally mild week across many areas, we are going to get a taste of winter as cold Arctic air plunges down from the north So it's probably time to get the big coat out 🥶
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Space Telescope Science Institute
5 days ago
The brightest point in this Hubble image of FS Tau is a binary system, consisting of two stars orbiting each other, that have cleared much of its surrounding dust and gas away. Credit: NASA, ESA, K. Stapelfeldt (NASA JPL), G. Kober (NASA/Catholic University of America). 🔭 🧪
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University of Oxford
5 days ago
'Renewable energy is now much cheaper than fossil fuels.' The energy transition is often painted as a jobs killer, but the evidence says otherwise, explains the
@smithschool.ox.ac.uk
’s Prof Sam Fankhauser ⬇️
#OxfordClimate
#COP30
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Renewable energy is reshaping the global economy – new report
The energy transition is often painted as a jobs killer, but the evidence says otherwise.
https://theconversation.com/renewable-energy-is-reshaping-the-global-economy-new-report-268676
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Physics Magazine
5 days ago
Researchers have measured the opacity of one of the Sun’s most important elements for radiation transport—oxygen—at densities and temperatures high enough to potentially resolve a persistent discrepancy between theory and observation.
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Measuring the Sun’s Opacity
Experiments with oxygen plasma at extreme densities and temperatures give new transparency to our picture of the Sun’s interior.
https://physics.aps.org/articles/v18/s144
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ESA Operations
7 days ago
☀️ ESA actively monitoring severe space weather event On 11 November, an intense solar flare was observed, followed by a coronal mass ejection estimated to arrive at Earth in the late evening today or in the early morning tomorrow.
www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
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Space Telescope Science Institute
7 days ago
The demand to use
#NASAWebb
shows no signs of slowing! For its fifth year, researchers around the world submitted a record-breaking 2,900+ proposals. The types of requests show astronomers are ready to answer even bolder scientific questions:
https://bit.ly/4nYC0LS
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Marsh's Library
6 days ago
If you are in Dublin over the next few months, don't miss this gorgeous exhibition of some of the treasures in our Benjamin Iveagh Library at the Farmleigh Gallery in the Phoenix Park.
#opw
#farmleigh
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ESO
6 days ago
For the first time ever, astronomers have unveiled the shape of a supernova explosion just a day after detection, as the blast was breaking through the star’s surface. Achieved by our VLT, this feat will help us understand how massive stars die:
https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2520/
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The Royal Society
6 days ago
Are you an oceanographer or marine biologist with an interest in marine biodiversity and climate change? Our upcoming scientific meeting will look at
#ClimateChange
and
#BiodiversityLoss
linkages in ocean ecosystems:
royalsociety.org/science-even...
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Dr Vicky Fawcett
6 days ago
Excited and honoured to be giving the Caroline Herschel Prize Lecture on Thursday 20th November at the
@uniofbath.bsky.social
and online 🔭 I will be talking about all things supermassive black holes and quasars! 🌌
@royalastrosoc.bsky.social
@sagencl.bsky.social
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Archives & Collections, Library of Birmingham
6 days ago
#HRAExhibition
#Christmas
If you’re passing by the library over the next couple of months, why not pop up to Level 4 to take a look at our small, but perfectly formed display of Christmas related documents from our printed collections
#LibraryofBham
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European Space Agency
7 days ago
🆕 Astronomers have wanted to spot a 'coronal mass ejection', or CME, on a star other than our own for decades. And now they have! 👇
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US National Gemini Office
7 days ago
From
@noirlabastro.bsky.social
: Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) gleams against the January sky above three NOIRLab-supported telescopes in this image. The last time it was visible from Earth was about 600,000 years ago.
#astronomy
CTIO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/C. Corco
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Met Office - weather and climate
7 days ago
Low pressure is dominating our weather this week. We have multiple warnings in force and more unsettled weather is to come. Some areas could see a month’s worth of rain in 24 hours 🌧️ Find out more ⤵️
www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
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New warning issued for heavy rain on Friday into Saturday morning
Some areas could see a month’s worth of rain in 24 hours.
https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/news-and-media/media-centre/weather-and-climate-news/2025/new-warning-issued-for-heavy-rain-on-friday-into-saturday-morning
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Royal Astronomical Society
7 days ago
🎆📯 Northern Lights klaxon 📯🎆 Yes that's right, tonight offers another chance to catch a glimpse of the beautiful aurora borealis. It looks like the strongest aurora will happen before midnight – but it'll depend on where you are in the UK and if you have clear skies. ☁️ Good luck!
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Rebekah Higgitt
7 days ago
Online lecture, open to all: 2 Dec 18:30 (GMT) Renée Bergland on her book 'Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science' Winner of
@bshsnews.bsky.social
Hughes Prize, for the best
#histSTM
book accessible to a broad audience
www.bshs.org.uk/online-lectu...
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Leverhulme Trust
8 days ago
Cosmologist and Professor of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences
@princeton.edu
,
@jdunkley.bsky.social
on the immensity of the universe and our place in it.
www.joinexpeditions.com/experts/4621
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ESO
7 days ago
Five thousand light-years away lies the magnificent Lagoon Nebula — an interstellar cloud stretching over 100 light-years across. It boasts many large, hot stars, whose ultraviolet radiation sculpts the gas and dust into unusual shapes.
www.eso.org/public/image...
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#Flashback
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The Linnean Society of London
7 days ago
Shore-ly you didn't miss our most recent Linnean Lens talk? It's time to shell-ebrate as it's now available to watch on our YouTube channel-three guesses what it's about! Join Job Ablett as he uses his 22+ years of experience to show and tell about the amazing specimens in the Linnean's collection
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Linnean Lens | Treasures of the Linnean Shells collection
Linnaeus (1707-1778) described and named over 800 molluscan species, including many of the most familiar and widespread species. Through his many correspondents, he obtained shells from collectors,…
https://youtu.be/RVex-X07Gzg
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Chris Lintott
7 days ago
Sky at Night always used to have an early repeat - and we're back, with our collaboration with the Curious Cases team on at 7pm tomorrow on BBC4. Please watch if you possibly can - support your local science program!
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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BBC Four - The Sky at Night, Space Mysteries: The Sky at Night Meets Curious Cases
Hannah Fry and Dara Ó Briain join the team to answer viewers' burning queries about space.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002m4fp
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Royal Society Publishing
8 days ago
The number of low-quality or fraudulent publications is rising to hundreds of thousands per year. It is time to reevaluate current publishing models and outline a global plan. Read the 'Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration':
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
#RSOS
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David Blanchflower BSc
7 days ago
Northern Lights set to dazzle UK this week due to possible 'severe' geomagnetic storm. 🔭 🧪
www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
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Northern Lights set to dazzle UK this week due to possible 'Severe' geomagnetic storm
Activity on the surface of the Sun means the chance of the Northern Lights shining over the UK is high this week as Elizabeth Rizzini explains.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/articles/cpv13jpmxw7o
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans
8 days ago
The obligatory selfie from this morning's trip to the BBC Studios in Edinburgh: another awesome set of listeners questions answered for BBC Radio 4 Inside Science 🤓
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British Library
8 days ago
We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December. To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches. Find out more:
bit.ly/CollectionSu...
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British Geological Survey
8 days ago
🗓️ Artificial Intelligence for Natural Hazards Workshop - Thursday 20th November Are you an industry or research institution interested in the applications of AI in Earth Observation and natural hazards?
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ESA Space Science
8 days ago
#CometInterceptor
will be the first mission to visit a comet coming directly from the outer reaches of the Sun's realm, carrying material untouched since the dawn of the Solar System. Part of
#CosmicVision
, Comet Interceptor is an ESA-led mission in collaboration with JAXA. 1/
#CM25
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Space Telescope Science Institute
8 days ago
STScI has three goals: 1) to excel in the science operations of NASA's current and future astrophysics missions; 2) to advance astronomical research, archives, and tools for scientific discovery; and 3) to make astronomical information accessible to all:
https://www.stsci.edu/
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Royal Astronomical Society
8 days ago
Only a few days left! 📅⌛ Time is running out to submit applications for the Norman Lockyer Fellowship, offered to outstanding candidates to enable them to pursue research in the UK in the disciplines advanced by the RAS. ⤵️
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The Handwritten Letter Appreciation Society
9 days ago
Rain stopped play (work) so made a poster for
#ChristmasCardDay
instead. Appearing on postboxes soon! 🥳🎄📮🎉
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The Royal Society
9 days ago
In October we hosted a workshop bringing together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to explore how the UK can better adapt to climate risks that originate beyond its borders. Read the summary on our website:
#ClimateChange
#ClimateAdaptation
#COP30
royalsociety.org/news-resourc...
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Adapting to International Climate Risks | Royal Society
Summary note from a workshop on how the UK can adapt to international climate change risks.
https://royalsociety.org/news-resources/publications/2025/adapting-to-international-climate-risks/
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The Royal Society
9 days ago
Read the full letter from ten Fellows of the Royal Society to the Prime Minister, following the announcement of the outcome of the Curriculum and Assessment Review last week:
royalsociety.org/news/2025/11...
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