One week left to apply for our Education Manager role! Inspiring young people about nature and ensuring their voices are heard is vital to achieve our vision. We are looking for parental leave cover to manager our educational workshops, events and grants. Apply by midnight 8 March: buff.ly/M2qGvt2

"Planned cuts to physics and astronomy funding threaten to undermine a core UK government strategy to harness innovation to boost economic growth, leading researchers have warned ministers." Thanks @financialtimes.com for covering this really important story 🗞️: www.ft.com/content/a235...

Blast from the past: 1973 OPEC embargo. 1979 Iranian revolution. Oil supply weaponised & prices surge 4x. Stagflation tore through economies & families got smashed at the bowser. You paid or you parked. No exit ramp. No alternative. Just dependence on geopolitics. #Bettrification #EV #Solar

Want to join us at RASreach 2026? 🪐🔭🗣️ Bookings are now open for the one-day conference on science communication on 27 March, which is being hosted by @manchester.ac.uk in partnership with @royalastrosoc.bsky.social. ℹ️ & 🎟️ at: ras.ac.uk/events-and-m...

New images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope reveal the “Exposed Cranium” nebula, also known as Nebula PMR 1, in both near- and mid-infrared light. spklr.io/6040D4i26 📸: Image: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)

Capricorn. From John Bevis' Uranographia Britannica (ca. 1749), a watershed in the history of celestial atlases, being among the last to show allegiance to the old animated mythology of the heavens. More in our latest post: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/bevis-uranographia

It's #InternationalPolarBearDay 🐻‍❄️ This handsome bear decorates a 1649 map of the Arctic Pole and surrounding lands, engraved in Amsterdam by Dutch cartographer Johannes Janssonius (1588–1664). Shelfmark: Maps.bb.17.F.20.

We are saddened to hear of the death of Professor Dame Carole Jordan – the first female president of the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social. Read more about her life and career: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

Same Catharine Parr question in two different quiz shows this afternoon! Do they all get the questions from the same book?!

As @vrubinobs.bsky.social gets going with its survey of the sky, nice to be reminded of a Fred Hoyle quote: ‘a large telescope is a good example of the things which our civilisation does well’.

Spring is on the horizon, with all its sweet promise. 💐Images of spring flowers are all coloured plates from "The romance of nature" written and illustrated by Louisa Anne Twamley (later Meredith). Published in London, 1836 (Eb.5.17).

One of the many wonderful illustrations featured in Omega: The Last Days of the Earth (1894), a #sciencefiction novel by 19th-century French astronomer and writer Camille Flammarion, who was born #onthisday in1842. More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/o... #OTD #scifi

There has always been a close link between navigation and astronomy, so its no surprise that some of the Cambridge Observatories books come from the Admiralty.

There has always been a close link between navigation and astronomy, so its no surprise that some of the Cambridge Observatories books come from the Admiralty.

Many of the books in the Cambridge Observatory collection were given to us by famous individuals and organizations, such as this from the British Association for the Advancement of Science, now: @britsciassoc.bsky.social

Many of the books in the Cambridge Observatory collection were given to us by famous individuals and organizations, such as this from the British Association for the Advancement of Science, now: @britsciassoc.bsky.social

Many of the 19th century books in the Cambridge Observatory collection have special bindings, which make them very much part of the place and its history.

Many of the 19th century books in the Cambridge Observatory collection have special bindings, which make them very much part of the place and its history.

Good news for the Cambridge University Vet School.

NASA is not following the 2026 budget directive to conserve the historical documents in the Goddard Space Library and must be made to by Congress! Contact your rep. by visiting tr.ee/save-nasa to urge Congress to make NASA save the documents! #science #nasa #savenasa #standupforscience #space

With satellite launches accelerating at an unprecedented rate, humanity has a responsibility to ensure a sustainable space future. In this #LovellLecture, join Dr Ciara McGrath to explore the opportunities and challenges that define modern space exploration: https://ow.ly/upLY50YkcZw

Today London Met collegaues, students and supporters were out in force againt vicious cuts. London Met has a proud history of educating working class students, many from the local community and many who are the first in their family to go to university. We will keep fighting ✊

Please try and get along this morning to help save Cambridge University Vet School.

Don't forget, Monday morning: save Cambridge University Vet School.

Did you know our latest acquisition – Cromwell’s watch – was sketched for the Gentleman’s Magazine in 1808? Dating to c.1645, this item is now on permanent display, made possible by grants from @HeritageFundUK, @artfund and public crowdfunding. Visit us to see it for yourself! 😀

Job opening at the Royal Observatory Greenwich (3 year fixed term): Heritage Operations Officer, responsible for coordinating public engagement and events for the Heritage Fund programme associated with the First Light redevelopment of the site #scicomm 📜

🆕 Our NASA/CSA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope image of the month features the stellar lifecycle in a nearby spiral galaxy named NGC 5134 🌌🧪🔭 🔗 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/2026/02/The_stellar_lifecycle_in_a_nearby_spiral @stsci.edu @science.esa.int

We often hear news about habitable #exoplanets, but what does "habitable" actually mean? Is an "Earth-like" planet truly like the Earth? In our latest ESO blog we clarify some of the confusion around these terms. Check it out! www.eso.org/public/blog/... 🔭 🧪

Save Cambridge University Vet School: emergency protest first thing on Monday

On Friday evening, MKAS member Theresa gave a talk on where the chemical elements around us come from. It was a thought-provoking journey from the birth of the Universe to the gold in our jewellery.

A big THANK YOU to everybody who supported the rally today. But keep up the pressure ... and don't forget the protest on Monday morning!

Need a grant to support your astronomy or geophysics research? Time is running out to get your application in for the February round of funding awarded by the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social. 🔭🪐🌍️🌋 The deadline is this Friday (20 February)⌛️⏰️ Apply here 👉️ ras.ac.uk/awards-and-g... .

Really looking forward to this! Come join me in London or online.

This unique self-portrait, also known as “view from the left eye”, is the creation of Austrian physicist and philosopher Ernst Mach (famous for his work on supersonic fluid mechanics), who was born #onthisday in 1838. Read more about the image here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/s... #OTD

Please help save Cambridge University Vet School. Please come along and publicize the rally today

Please help save Cambridge University Vet School. Please come along and publicize the rally today

Rally 1PM today for Cambridge University Vet School!

Rally tomorrow for Cambridge University Vet School

Save Cambridge University Vet School: demonstration on Wednesday this week.

Last Friday evening, MKAS held a very well-attended February meeting, despite the cold and persistent damp that has made this month largely unkind to stargazers! www.facebook.com/MKastronomical www.mkas.org.uk Next Meeting 27th February Annual MKAS Quiz Where Milton Keynes Meets the Universe.

Soon, we may be able to deflect asteroids on collision courses with Earth. In this podcast, aerospace engineer Rahil Makadia explains how deflected asteroids could return to Earth. 🧪⚛️ ow.ly/YbqO50YenRc

😴 While the Dye Garden hibernates, our Conservation team are busy making plans for the coming months... 🌱 begin early spring planting 🌱 move some plants for better light/drainage 🌱 leave the perennial crocuses and madder to mature 🌱 Order new seeds, like 'true indigo'

Astronomy is interdisciplinary, with connections not only to other STEM fields, but far beyond. The Astro-Journeys webinar on 18 February at 17 CET with Rosa Doran will teach you how to use these connections. Register now! 🔭 #astroedu astrojourneys.eu/webinar-inte...

Register now for our upcoming scientific meeting as experts meet to develop formal taxonomic criteria for the spore-forming obligate parasites Microsporidia. Find out more and book your place: https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2026/03/vision-augmented-hearing/

Or perhaps our Specialist Discussion Meeting on the role that gravitationally unstable protostellar discs play in planet formation is more up your street? 🪐 If so, don't delay, secure your spot either in-person or online by scanning the QR code or visiting: ras.ac.uk/events-and-m...

1/ On this International Day of #WomenAndGirlsInScience, the European Interferometry Initiative shares the stories of the brilliant women exploring the cosmos with optical/infrared interferometric techniques at ESO & other organisations. european-interferometry.eu/a/?loose=14&... 🔭 🧪 #WomenInSTEM

Explore our Universe through Questions. Join us for this year’s MKAS Annual Astronomy Quiz. Friday 27th February 2026 at Rectory Cottages Bletchley MK3 6BJ at 20:00hrs. www.mkas.org.uk

We now have an orginal architects drawing of the Cambridge Observatory - hanging in the entrance to the Cambridge Observatory!

We now have an orginal architects drawing of the Cambridge Observatory - hanging in the entrance to the Cambridge Observatory!

For #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience, we’re highlighting #MaryKingWard (27 April 1827 – 31 August 1869), an Irish naturalist, microscopist, author, artist and astronomer from Co. Offaly. 📷 : Mary Ward with her #microscope, c.1860 (public domain)