Our special November issue, celebrating 30 years of exoplanets, is now here! https://bit.ly/483MH9I #astronomy #exoplanets

Stepping outside during your lunch break? 🌨️ Here's the latest showing where the rain, sleet and hill snow is ⤵️

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.

📚 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

Do any other libraries collect newspaper clippings? We cut out anything we find on astronomy and put them on the board.

Do any other libraries collect newspaper clippings? We cut out anything we find on astronomy and put them on the board.

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

‘Vast’ Bronze Age settlement uncovered for first time by archaeologists

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!

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!

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

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"

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…

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 🔭

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... 🔭

🎄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

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. 🤩🔭

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...

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 🥶

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). 🔭 🧪

'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

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.

☀️ 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...

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 🔭 🧪

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

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/ 🔭 🧪 ☄️

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...

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

#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

🆕 Astronomers have wanted to spot a 'coronal mass ejection', or CME, on a star other than our own for decades. And now they have! 👇

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

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...

🎆📯 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!

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...

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

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... 🔭 #Flashback

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

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...

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 🧪

Northern Lights set to dazzle UK this week due to possible 'severe' geomagnetic storm. 🔭 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

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 🤓

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...

🗓️ 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?

#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 🔭

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/ 🔭 🧪

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. ⤵️

Rain stopped play (work) so made a poster for #ChristmasCardDay instead. Appearing on postboxes soon! 🥳🎄📮🎉

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...

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...