🔭🧪🎢 The University of Leicester is advertising PhD places in Physics & Astronomy starting 2026! They span Astrophysics, Planetary Science, Space Instrumentation and Earth Observation. All of them are advertised on FindAPhD 🔭🧪🎢 www.findaphd.com/phds/departm...

🔭🧪🎢 The next Open Day at the University of Leicester is tomorrow! Come and see what studying Physics here is all about! Sign up here: le.ac.uk/open-days Gain a world-class Physics education while learning from experts in Space science, Astrophysics and Earth Observation Science. 🔭🧪🎢

Thanks to the team at Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory for hosting me today: home of Dragonfly quadcopter to Titan (model below), Parker Solar Probe, New Horizons to Pluto, DART asteroid impactor, and more. Talked HabWorlds, JWST, heliophysics and exoplanets, all in one exhausting day.

Fantastic first part of the week at ESAC at the BepiColombo @science.esa.int Science Working Team meeting… just a bit over a year before arriving to Mercury! ✨✨ very exciting, and always great to go back home, even if just for a few days!

🐱 Our newest student! 🐱 Learning about the vast current flowing along the Earth's magnetic field to the ionosphere is as captivating for cats as it is for our students. It took a seat and stayed for the lecture as @bscredrojo.bsky.social explained the "Birkeland currents" to our 3rd years! 😻

🔭🧪🎢 As a summer research project, our undergraduate Bagirdam Dharmalingam studied greenhouse gas above the UK! ☀️ Learn more about out Earth Observation research here le.ac.uk/physics/rese... Learn about studying Physics at Leicester here 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics

🔭🧪🎢 This summer project, which two of our students, Jack Fuller and Luke Smith, worked on looked at what happens when you mill through the surface of materials with lasers! Summer projects are open to our undergraduates every year. Learn about studying Physics at Leicester 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics

🔭🧪🎢 Our undergraduate, Kieran Bujdoso, spent his summer project here analysing meteorites. Learn more about our meteorite research here 💫 🪨 : le.ac.uk/physics/rese... Learn about studying Physics at Leicester here 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics

Our 3rd year William Spanswick did a summer project here studying the Martian ionosphere! This is him telling the department about it before term started Learn more about our research here 🛰️ le.ac.uk/physics/rese... Learn about studying Physics at Leicester here 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics

🔭🧪🎢 As a summer project our undergraduate student Emily Stedall looked at "The Evolution and Impact of Accretion Disk Winds in an X-Ray Binary System" 🔭🧪🎢 Learn more about studying Physics at Leicester here 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics

🔭🧪🎢 Every year we run the summer research projects for some of our undergraduates. Daniel Booth looked at identifying mid-infrared counterparts to gamma-ray bursts, and he presented his work before term started 🔭🧪🎢

🔭🧪🎢 Every year we run some summer research projects for our undergraduates. Before term, Ayushma Paudel told us about helping to monitor food security! Learn about our Earth observation research 🌍 le.ac.uk/physics/rese... Learn about studying Physics at Leicester 👉 le.ac.uk/study/physics

🔭🧪🎢 Our next open day is tomorrow, Saturday 13th September, and you are all welcome! Book your place here: le.ac.uk/open-days You can learn about the exciting research done here at the university that you can get involved with as an undergraduate. 🔭🧪🎢

🔭🧪🎢 Our next public open day is this weekend! On 13th September, come and see what studying physics at the University of Leicester can be like. You'll also witness some of the highlights of our internationally renowned space research. Book your place here: le.ac.uk/open-days 🔭🧪🎢

🔭🧪🎢 Just over a week until our next public open day! On 13th September, come and see what studying physics at the University of Leicester can be like. You'll also witness some of the highlights of our internationally renowned space research. Book your place here: le.ac.uk/open-days 🔭🧪🎢

Just over 2 weeks until our next public open day! On 13th September, come and see what studying physics at the University of Leicester can be like. You'll also witness some of the highlights of our internationally renowned space research. Book your place here: le.ac.uk/open-days

How many universities do you know with their own space elephant? This is 'Ele-gene Voyager' (by Marta Zubieta), celebrating @uniofleicester.bsky.social roles in space exploration @physicsuol.bsky.social and DNA fingerprinting. Part of the Loros #StompRoundLeicester

Fancy joining the #PlanetaryScience team at @uniofleicester.bsky.social? We have 3 postdoc positions open: Mercury with BepiColombo with Emma Bunce; the Martian ionosphere with @bscredrojo.bsky.social; or Jupiter's auroral lightshow with @jnic.bsky.social. Visit jobs.le.ac.uk and search "Physics"

🔭 A postdoc opportunity here at the University of Leicester! 🔭

An extragalactic explosion was a massive star exploding, with a jet that was trapped in a 'cocoon' by the outer layers of the star or the dense matter surrounding it. Our researchers helped explain this using data from the Einstein Probe and ground telescopes. le.ac.uk/news/2025/ju...

Leicester scientists building the Soft X-ray Imager for ESA and CAS's Solar wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer being highlighted by the UKSA during #NAM2025

Our lecturer @bscredrojo.bsky.social presents M-MATISSE at #NAM2025

We've just had plenary talks from Prof Leigh Fletcher, of the University of Leicester, on JWST's insights on the giant planets in our solar system and Prof Steven Longmore, of Liverpool John Moores University, exploring the environmental dependence of star and planet formation over cosmic time. ⤵️

Our Prof @leighfletcher.bsky.social is giving a plenary talk at the National Astronomy Meeting presenting JWST observations of the solar system's gas giants! #NAM2025

Our reseachers are at the National Astronomy meeting, and Leicester's rockets are in the talks!

🧪🎢 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)

Our next open day is this Saturday (5th July). Come and see what studying physics in a world class department could be like! 🧪🎢 le.ac.uk/open-days

Large @physicsuol.bsky.social and @nceoscience.bsky.social contingent at ESA #LPS2025 this week!

Our final call for expressions of interest for the STFC Rutherford Fellowships, with a deadline tomorrow - do get in touch if you have any questions!

Only 2 weeks until our next public open day! Come and see what studying physics here can be like. You'll also witness some of the highlights of our internationally renowned space research. Book your place here: le.ac.uk/open-days

Last weekend NCEO staff joined in celebrating the @physicsuol.bsky.social centenary. It was fantastic to meet alumni, learn of their journeys and showcase groundbreaking the work we do. www.nceo.ac.uk/news-media/1... #CitizensOfChange #CentenaryOfDiscovery

International or UK researcher looking for a #fellowship in #astrophysics, #planetaryscience, and/or space instrumentation? Leicester @physicsuol.bsky.social is inviting expressions of interest for this year's STFC 5-year Ernest Rutherford Fellowships (deadline June 26th): le.ac.uk/physics/rese...

Our lecturer Dr Beatriz Sánchez-Cano is leading this Mars mission concept for an ESA M-class mission. Follow her for updates on the potential of this exciting mission.

🔭🧪 Congratulations to Prof Nial Tanvir who has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his work studying gamma-ray bursts, the most violent explosions we've ever seen. le.ac.uk/news/2025/ma...

🔭🧪 Congratulations to Prof Nial Tanvir who has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for his work studying gamma-ray bursts, the most violent explosions we've ever seen. le.ac.uk/news/2025/ma...

Jupiter's aurora is fizzing and popping with light faster than anyone expected. Our Prof Jonathan Nichols lead work that discovered this using JWST and the Hubble Space Telescope. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2T8...

I'm looking to hire a post-doc to work on tropical wetland #methane modelling. If that sounds like something you'd be interested in, get in touch. Happy to have an informal chat before applications :-) Closing date 4th May. jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/11...

We are celebrating our centenary on Saturday 17th May this year. We're holding an open day on campus and we welcome all friends of the School to come and join us! You can reserve a place via this link: alumni-events.le.ac.uk/event11.html

🪐Jupiter or Saturn? Which gas giant is best? Our Dr Paul Abel joins @robinince.bsky.social & @briancoxtalks.bsky.social in The Infinite Monkey Cage to debate it on Radio 4 tomorrow (Sat 15 March) or already available on BBC Sounds! 🪐 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The Einstein Probe, using the X-ray WXT instrument that University of Leicester helped to build, has discovered a puzzling burst of X-rays, with a "soft" (lower energy) X-ray detection of an ancient explosion. www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

Congratulations to our Prof Emma Bunce, who has been appointed a trustee of Royal Museums Greenwich, in the year of its 350th anniversary le.ac.uk/news/2025/ja...

BepiColombo, carrying an instrument designed and built by University of Leicester scientists, has completed its final flyby of Mercury. Its orbiters will start circling the planet next year! le.ac.uk/news/2025/ja...

Happy 20th, Swift! Swift has done so much for helping us to monitor varying X-ray sources - I use it regularly to keep tabs on ultraluminous X-ray sources (in fact, it took a glance at one of them for me just yesterday). Thank you, Swift team! 🔭🧪

A couple of photos from our celebration of Swift

🧪🔭 Reskeeting for the feeds 🔭🧪 💥Gamma-ray bursts are the most extreme explosive events in the universe, caused when a massive star implodes or two neutron stars merge. Swift is designed to rapidly point itself in the direction of possible gamma-ray bursts💥

We're marking 20 years of groundbreaking cosmic exploration with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory that has "transformed how we study gamma-ray bursts." Our team developed technology for it’s X-ray telescope and leads the UK’s data analysis efforts. le.ac.uk/news/2024/no...

From next year we're offering two new undergraduate Physics degrees. One is "Physics with Climate Science" le.ac.uk/courses/phys... offered as BSc or MPhys We host the National Centre for Earth Observation (NCEO) and students will combine core physics with learning from specialist climate experts 🧪

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We have fully-funded STFC, Leverhulme, UKSA (astrophysics) and NERC-CENTA (earth observation) PhD places for a September 2025 start. Follow the link to the College of Science and Engineering to apply: le.ac.uk/study/resear...