The fascists are organising a carol concert in London to "draw attention to unchecked immigration and the fading of our cultural heritage". What would Woody do? Write an anti-fascist Xmas carol and sing it at the counter demo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=liRd...

Love it 🙌

AR 4274 is rotating back into Earth's firing line for the 3rd time! 🌍☀️ It's been busy throwing out eruptions while on the farside, along with other ARs keeping things lively. The recent M-class flare and latest data suggests it may still be quite complex 👀 #SpaceWeather

Interested in the solar wind? Interested in lightning? Interested in the solar wind AND lightning? Then this could be the PhD for you! Come and work with us at the University of Reading. blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c...

🚨Here we go‼️🚨 Looks like the third eruption could be just arriving at L1 🌞💨🛰️🌍 #SpaceWeather #Aurora #NorthernLights

Undead Guitars' Blazing Zombies rise from the ashes of Red Guitars. Happy Halloween! youtu.be/JkqYeJ28XlU

Our single is out today! On all the usual digital platforms, Spotify, iTunes, etc. If you'd like to visit any of the places we are online, our videos, blog etc here is a good place to start. Have look and follow us if you can, it all helps to spread the word: linktr.ee/Undead_Guitars

Wow.

Much swearing as my whizzy telescope insisted on a software update as the eclipse ended and clouds rolled in, but I got something!

When did we stop talking about lunar eclipses and start talking instead about blood moons? Are we now to avoid their scientific wonder in favour of dread-laden hyperbole?

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I've been in that church. It was genuinely moving.

This.

Wow.

The brain fires up immune cells when sick people are nearby www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Blimey. Earthquake caused waves that shook the ionosphere on the edge of space.

The combined DRIIVE and FINESSE workshop has ended at BAS. Two days of fascinating science and planning for future ionospheric campaigns with EISCAT. Great to see brilliant colleagues.

An Emerging Risk To #RadioAstronomy 📡 Using a prototype SKA-Low instrument, a new analysis from @icrar.bsky.social has detected Starlink signals leaking into protected radio bands. @cosmicrami.com writes about this new study. www.spaceaustralia.com/news/emergin... 📸 Astro_Work 🔭 #SpaceAustralia

It doesn't get reiterated enough that "human on a bicycle" is not only the most efficient way that a person can move, it's the most efficient form of motion ***ever observed in land animals***.

While #Duolingo isn't celebrating, this gave me a #Rush.

The sun this evening over Oxfordshire taken with a #SeestarS50 with solar filter

The dream of seventeenth-century alchemists has been realized by physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), who have turned lead into gold — albeit for only a fraction of a second and at tremendous cost. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

To quote Luke Skywalker: Look at the size of that thing! #MayThe4thBeWithYou

That big sunspot is getting bigger!

Hi @mayaweihaas.bsky.social I hope you've not yet tired of receiving compliments about your fabulous book 'What a Rock Can Reveal' because my 8yo absolutely loves it! She has already collected a significant fraction of our gravel driveway and is on a mission to find some olivine! Thank you!

Join us at the #CommunityFestival2025 to see live images of the #Sun through a solar telescope (weather permitting!). Learn how solar activity drives auroras, disrupts technology and impacts other planets. Book now: rdg.ac/3AUYDdZ @interplanetary.bsky.social @unirdg-met.bsky.social (Image: NASA)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Another light has gone out. RIP Mike Peters, you gave me so much strength.

Ma-husive #sunspot rolling into view on the Sun right now. Images taken with a #SeestarS50 through a specialist filter over Oxfordshire, UK. #heliophysics #spaceweather

My @greshamcollege.bsky.social talk on asteroids is up! Get it while it’s fresh: youtu.be/Itht1IAFXbA?...

The sun this morning for those who are missing it.

It has frustrated me for a long time as to why OCR was so bad at reading data tables. This has far-reaching applications well beyond Ed's fabulous work.

🚨Our new paper is out now! We caught Jupiter’s upper atmosphere reacting dramatically to a bursts of solar wind, which triggered a planet-wide wave of heat to flow from the auroras. This changes how we think about the Sun’s influence at the outer planets. www.reading.ac.uk/news/2025/Re...

It is 100 years since Appleton proved the existence of the ionosphere. To celebrate, a colleague & I wrote an article. You can read it here; academic.oup.com/astrogeo/art...

A GIF of my images of the eclipse this weekend, using the SeeStar telescope! ☀️🌕 😍(The most spectacular thing about it being that there were no clouds in Reading throughout!!)

Waiting for @chrislintott.bsky.social to start #DogsDuringEclipses...

This morning's partial solar eclipse over Oxfordshire. Time-lapse, 1 frame every 30 seconds.

Things you may notice during a partial solar eclipse; 1. People wandering around with collanders 2. People with their head inside cardboard boxes 3. How odd dappled shade looks 4. How awesome the universe is

Here's a link to watch coverage of today's Partial Solar Eclipse. Provided by the Royal Observatory, Greenwich. 🔭 🧪 www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/onl...

If you’re in #oxford we should have a solar telescope out by the Said Business School for viewing.

Check out my recent paper, just published in ApJ! ☄️

A partial solar eclipse will occur on Saturday 29th March at around 10am where about 30-40% of the light from the ☀️ will be blocked by the 🌑. 🌙 Remember to view it safely with eclipse glasses like my dog below. It’ll be her 2nd eclipse 🌞🌑🌎 #solareclipse

Andromeda galaxy gradually coming into view. Mosaic of around 400 ten second exposures with a #Seestar S50. Photons by me, image processing by the inspirational #JulesWilkinson

If you're interesting in applying for research fellowships with the University of Reading to research weather, climate or space physics, come along to our fellows day -- 7 May -- to find out how it works and how we can support you. You can join online, or we can cover UK travel and provide lunch.

The moon last night

Another clear night, more photons hoovered up from the 'vacuum cleaner' galaxy M109.

Go work with Matt and Luke. They're awesome.

#bluesky by day here, but last night was clear and muli-coloured. In addition to gathering an hour of light from the Horsehead nebula (life goal unlocked), I 'look'd up in perfect silence at the stars'. It was awesome.

The truth is, I have 2 kids under 5 years old, I haven't got any more sleep to lose www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news...

Seagoon: Ah Moon, ah English-type Moon! What beauty! What rotundity! What delicacy! What purity! What joy! Grytpype-Thynne: What rubbish. The Moon Show.

Cold clear night here so I pointed the telescope at the Crab Nebula. This is about 90 mins exposure. Not bad considering the bright street lighting.

Interested in studying the mechanisms linking the solar wind to lightning rates on Earth? We have a PhD opportunity to do just that. Come and work with us! Details below. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...