Stunning #planet #Venus suspended under a bridge in #Bern since this weekend 🔭🧪🛰️🚀

A fun change to the regular work in the lab is the interaction with the public. Yesterday I visited the Astronomical Society of Hildesheim to talk about #Mercury and the #BepiColombo mission. 🛰️🚀🔭📡🧪 @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social

Molten #planets and early #atmospheres in the #lab: #mpsgoettingen scientist Christian Renggli receives one of this year’s ERC Starting Grants for his group ELMO (Experimental Laboratory Magma Ocean). Congratulations!!! www.mps.mpg.de/erc-starting... @renggli.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu #ERCStG

Motherfucking wind farms…

This would be incredibly exciting for impact science 🛰️🌕🧪🔭

Bei uns könnt ihr heute den Mond und den Mars gleichzeitig berühren! Christian Renggli hat uns heute nachmittag schonmal gezeigt wie's geht. @ndw_goe #ndwgoe #ndwgoemps #goettingen #mpsgoettingen #mars #mond #meteorit

Goddammit. Do Not Comply In Advance We still don't know what the Congressional budget proposal will be. Trump's shittastic budget proposal is not the final word!

On May 18, 1980, Richard Lasher got up early to get some photos at Spirit Lake. Instead, he was forced to stop because of the massive, explosive Mount St. Helens eruption and captured this iconic photo with his own red Ford Pinto on the road. 🧪⚒️ #OTD www.hemmings.com/stories/mt-s...

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Trump proposes unprecedented budget cuts for US science in next fiscal year NASA cut by 24% NIH cut by 40% EPA cut by 55% NSF cut by 56% Analysis from @maxkozlov.bsky.social @dangaristo.bsky.social @alexwitze.bsky.social and @nature.com team www.nature.com/articles/d41...

save our science www.planetary.org/advocacy-act...

Sarah’s rules of looking for life with only chemical signatures: 1) the smaller the molecule(s) the more likely they can also be produced by abiotic processes 2) one molecule, if it can be produced by any abiotic process, will never be enough to definitively claim detection of life

"Days ago, the Administration’s nominee to lead NASA called for a “new golden age of science and discovery” at the agency. The proposed budget from within the White House — which cuts NASA science by 47% — would plunge NASA into a dark age instead." www.planetary.org/press-releas...

The American Astronomical Society is gravely concerned by the deep cuts to NASA science funding reported to be in the draft President’s Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2026. Read more here: aas.org/press/aas-st... and take action now: aas.org/urge-nasa-su...

First the rumour was a 20% budget cut. Then, 50%. Now the president's NASA budget is out and it's a 68% cut to astrophysics ($1.5B to $487M). Even if this gets reversed in four years, we will *never* recover the missions, partners, people who will be gone. www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

Please hit the Moon 🌑💥 #2024YR4! This would be very exciting from a science point of view 🧪🔭🛰️🚀⚒️ We could observe the impact plume from Earth, and perhaps also from orbit. If we manage to put a seismometer on the lunar surface we could learn a much about the Moon's interior.

🎂🎶 Happy birthday to Pierre Boulez, born 100 years ago today! Here he conducts his work Notations for orchestra in a performance from 2009. » www.digitalconcerthall.com/concert/41?u...

OK, I'll be honest. I'm hoping for a hit on the Moon! With high certainty early on, so that we can put together an observation mission and perhaps even a few landed seismometers on the lunar surface. We would learn so much about the physics of crater formation, the lunar surface, and interior! 🚀🌕🔭📡🧪

🏛️Institutionen schützen 🏛️ - das Gebot der Stunde, wenn wir den #Staatsstreich von Musk, Vance, Thiel und Trump in den USA beobachten. Was kommt dort als erstes auf die Streichliste eines rechtspopulistischen „effizienten Staates“? www.linkedin.com/posts/maja-g...

Once again I am leaving the Munich Security Conference in a low mood. Amongst all the noise, the US signalled their plans for Europe, so things are becoming clearer. But things are clearly not good. This is what we now know, and what we have to do about it:🧵1/17

#planetsci #JobAlert 🚨 Venus climate modelers needed by my colleagues at @openuniversity.bsky.social Check it out! 🔭🧪 #venus #climate jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Post-Doc...

6 days left to apply! Please repost! #jobposting #Astrosky #ChemSky #PlanetaryScience

All the jokes worked, so it was a success 😎

Weil der Asteroid 2024 YR4 gerade für viele Schlagzeilen sorgt, hier nochmal die Original-Info der ESA: www.esa.int/Space_Safety...

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Friendly reminder that the core of Mercury is way bigger than we think it should be, and that the planet's basically a giant molten ballbearing with a thin blanket of rock on top.

Preserving the memory and sharing the stories of the victims. More important than ever, almost 80 years after the liberation of the concentration camp. Follow @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social

I am a bit nervous about my upcoming public talk on the planet Mercury here in Göttingen. The subtitle is "dead or alive?" and I only have a title slide and some silly jokes, but not much else yet 😬 🚀🧪🔭

@mpsgoettingen.bsky.social welcome to the blue sky! Make sure to use the 🚀🛰️🧪🔭⚒️ emojis to link to the relevant astronomy, science, space and geo feeds!

#OTD 14 January 2005, ESA’s #Huygens probe made history as it touched down on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. This was humankind's first successful landing on a world in the outer Solar System. Relive those moments with this narrated video made with Huygens data 🔭👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=svmG...

😎 This time next year, you could be in Antarctica! 🥶 A once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for medical doctors with a passion for exploration. Apply now and be part of this extraordinary mission... 🧪 #Medicine #LifeSciences ideas.esa.int/servlet/hype...

NASA will hold a media call Tuesday at 1 pm EST "to provide an update on the status of the agency’s Mars Sample Return Program." www.nasa.gov/news-release...

Because 2025 = 45² and 45 is a triangle number, we get these lovely sums: 2025 = (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9)² 2025 = 1³ + 2³ + 3³ + 4³ + 5³ + 6³ + 7³ + 8³ + 9³ Pleasingly the next triangle number 55 is 10 more, so get ready for a repeat of this fact in the year 3025.

“Die jetzige Politik sorgt für mehr Krieg” weil der Ukraine seit 2022 nicht alle Hilfe zur Verfügung gestellt wird, um den Befreiungsschlag gegen Russland zu erreichen. Hört in das Interview mit @afelia.bsky.social rein: www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/unser-jahrta...

Yay! Parker Solar Probe survived! 🪐🔭🧪 #PlanetaryScience

Short summary from today's #ESA briefing on the upcoming mission calls. Short thread: There will be opportunities for an M-, F-, and mini-F-class mission. First up is the timeline of current and future missions in the image below. 1/4 🧵 #planetaryScience #EuropeSpace

Applications are open for MPIA summer internships! this is a fully funded opportunity, open to bachelor's and master's students anywhere in the world: www.mpia.de/en/careers/i...

A successful encounter! #ESA #BepiColombo passed Mercury today, gathering valuable science data. 🛰️🌖 Here's an image taken at 10:46 UTC (11:46 CET) 1 December, from ~51000km from the surface. x.com/BepiColombo/... Congratulations to our amazing teams for this next milestone towards Mercury orbit.

An exciting opportunity to work in Münster and Perugia with the fantastic @carlatb.bsky.social on an experimental petrology PhD project 🧪🌋🌎

Most of the planet formation models assume a Solar-type central star. But exoplanets form around stars of various masses and compositions. Do you want to work on exoplanet formation models? Apply now to join our group as a postdoctoral researcher next year!

Hey, look at my new toy from NETZSCH 🤩 With a temperatures to 2000 °C under gases or high vacuum, and coupled to a quadrupole mass spectrometer! This is gonna be a lot of fun 🔥

New #preprint alert 🧪⚒️🌎🔬 doi.org/10.31223/X5T... #Stromboli in the Aeolian islands in #Sicily is one of the most active #volcanoes on Earth. The frequent strombolian eruptions (picture) are occasionally interrupted by more violent paroxysms. We present new Strontium isotope data of the 2019 paroxysm

According to the #NASA briefing: "This stuff is an astrobiologist's dream!" "The #OSIRISREx #Bennu #Asteroid Sample Contains Carbon And Water" astrobiology.com/2023/10/the-... #Astrobiology #Astrochemistry

I've had a great first week as a staff scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen. So many fantastic scientists, and I look forward to new collaborations and and projects relating to the awesome space missions MPS is involved in.