And... Another X-class solar 💥flare💥 ! Today, Nov 10, peaking at 09:18UT an X1.2 flare was detected. Here is the Hα light curve also showing the GOES X-ray light curve swe.ssa.esa.int/kso-S107g-fe... and the radio burst onset ~09:11UT as seen in the radio spectrogram swe.ssa.esa.int/web/guest/si...

At some point we need to have a discussion about the ethics of participation in press releases as scientists. From today’s K2-18b saga, Nikku Madhusudhan in the press release says ‘The signal came through loud and clear’ (1/n)

Today, we’re launching ‘Strategy 2040’, laying out ESA’s future activities and priorities, with a clear and ambitious vision to cement Europe’s leadership in space. #Strategy2040 will evolve and grow over the years ahead. Read more 👉 esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/corpora...

Great day at DIAS Dunsink Observatory talking future space missions … and checking out sunspots with the historic Grubb Refractor. Not a bad way to spend my birthday.

First images from the Square Kilometre Array Low Frequency (SKA-Low)! Taken with only 1,024 of the planned 131,072 antennas, and it's already looking good :) #RadioAstronomy

Spotted this rolled up on a shelf in Birr Castle today: “Observations of the radiation of heat from the Moon Dec 1868 - Apr 1869”. The 4th Earl made a 3 foot telescope and thermopile to measure lunar heat. Pretty amazing. Published in Proc of Royal Society 1869! www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1...

I had a great time chatting on #Futureproof with @jonathanmccrea.bsky.social on @newstalkfm.bsky.social this weekend, talking about @esascience.esa.int #SolarOrbiter and how we're uncovering new insights about our Sun! ☀️🛰️ 🔗 www.newstalk.com/podcasts/fut...

Solar Orbiter is getting ready for a close encounter with #Venus. Today’s flyby will be the first to significantly ‘tilt’ the spacecraft’s orbit and allow it to see the #Sun’s polar regions, which cannot be seen from Earth. Get the details 👉 www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup... 🔭

Astro job opportunity: Professorship in Astrophysics or Cosmology at Maynooth University: www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

#OTD 10 February 2020, @esascience.esa.int’s Sun-exploring #SolarOrbiter spacecraft was launched on a US Atlas V 411 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. www.esa.int/Science_Expl... (pics: @esa.int and @ulalaunch.bsky.social)

Spotted some apt graffiti by Broombridge this morning while cycling along the Royal Canal to Dunsink - right at the spot where Hamilton first wrote it down: i² = j² = k² = ijk = -1 😂

The partnership will see Van Morrison provide two students with fully-funded scholarships to assist in their ambitions to become professional musicians. http://jrnl.ie/6614940

Big news! We’ve just launched some new accounts 🎉 Give them a follow: 🔭 @esascience.esa.int 🧑‍🚀 @esaexploration.esa.int 🚀 @esatransport.esa.int 🌍 @esaearth.esa.int 📡 @esaoperations.esa.int ⚙️ @esatechnology.esa.int 🛰️ @esaconnectivity.esa.int Stay tuned for exciting things ahead! 💙✨

Three Square Kilometre Array Commissioning Scientist jobs available to work at the SKA-Low Science Operations Centre in Perth, Western Australia. recruitment.skao.int/vacancy/skal... Deadline February 23rd. Contact George Heald (@georgeheald.bsky.social) for more information. #RadioAstronomy

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is putting on quite a show over the last few days in the @esa.int SOHO/LASCO coronagraph images, as it passed through the closest point of its orbit at 0.093 au. This comet's orbit is strongly inclined to the plane of the planets. 👇 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2024_...

Hot off the press! One of my students, Yu Wing (Joshua) Lee, has discovered a new radio transient (along with @manishacaleb.bsky.social). Read more about "The Stellar Object That’s Too Slow to Shine" in their Conversation article: theconversation.com/blinking-rad... #RadioAstronomy

Good night … from Dunsink Observatory

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As many have pointed out, the LASCO images on the SOHO website are saturated. So this is the result of my own algo for processing them. And I will echo my sentiments from yesterday: This. Comet. Is. RIDICULOUS! 🤩😍 ☄️🔭☀️

Many congratulations for Professor Jackman and grateful for her expert advice and work with @esa!

EUV images of the Sun from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory are back on SolarMonitor! solmon.dias.ie/fulldisk?dat...

Hello @bsky.app, here's to looking into more #bluesky and beyond... 😉

Thousands of students have arrived at the RDS for the BT Young Scientist & Technology exhibition. Ahead of the event opening to the public, The Journal spoke to one student who wanted to find out if there is any truth to someone having a “big Irish head”. jrnl.ie/6587485

Hey University students, want to learn more about #SpaceWeather 🚀☔? You're still in time to apply for #ESA's Space Weather Training Course in Belgium. Details found here: www.esa.int/Education/ES...

Our recent work has just been published in A&A! We developed a retrieval framework for the large-scale magnetic fields of objects emitting radio bursts driven by the electron cyclotron maser (ECM) instability. We applied it to the brown dwarf J0623, and found that it has a large magnetic obliquity!

Received our new advanced propulsion system at Dunsink Observatory today courtesy of Fingal County Council. The e-cargo bike can do 25km/h on the flat and takes the pain out of hills, wind, etc.

Job alert! Postdoctoral Fellowship in sunspot classification and solar flare forecasting using machine learning @DIASAstronomy. Deadline is December 5. www.dias.ie/postdoctoral...

Looking forward to a new dawn @bsky.app