@oxfordphysics.bsky.social is one of the OGs of Rubin UK and has been championing UK inclusion in @vrubinobs.bsky.social since 2014. This piece explains more and talks to some of Oxford's key Rubin contributors, incl. @aprajitaverma.bsky.social & @chrislintott.bsky.social 🔭 tinyurl.com/56wcbkwe

"[The UK's space-related industry] should be a national success story but instead we are facing the possibility of unsettling and destabilising threats to funding for cutting edge science," says @chrislintott.bsky.social on the BBC today: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🔭

Just off the 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿radio after a lovely #Artemis-II return to the moon chat with @ollopa11.bsky.social! Leo taught me that the Orion capsule is the first moon-mission with a toilet-cubicle on board! The 1970s Apollo astronauts were afforded no such dignity😳 🛰️ ℹ️: www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/artemis...

Starting 2026 with a bang! @vrubinobs.bsky.social has spotted an asteroid the size of 8 American football fields! And the first peer-reviewed paper using LSST Camera data has been published. Read more: www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2026-01... 🔭

Are you a scientific researcher, science policy maker or scientist in industry? Join our upcoming Science+ meeting in London on the topic of science as a global public good: royalsociety.org/science-even... @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social @unesco.org

What is Janet and how is it supporting the @vrubinobs.bsky.social LSST? This short video explains how @jisc.bsky.social's Janet network is playing a critical role in transferring the huge quantities of LSST data 🔭 youtu.be/L3nFoHoxSKk?...

As the LSST:UK team starts to wind down to enjoy a few days of rest and relaxation, we wish you all a happy and peaceful festive season. 📷 NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/F. Bruno

“We wouldn’t have the Rubin Observatory today if [Tony Tyson] hadn’t had that vision, and also that dogged determination,” says @astroroyalscot.bsky.social. Find out why Tyson is on @nature.com's list of people who shaped science in 2025. 🔭 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This free opportunity for ECRs to gain new skills 👇

... and you can follow Agata on @agastro.bsky.social 🔭

What's Janet and why is it important for UK astronomy? 🔭 This video by @jisc.bsky.social introduces the UK’s national research and education network. Agata Rożek & @markgbeckett.bsky.social from @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social explain why it's crucial for the Rubin LSST. www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-12...

From @noirlabastro.bsky.social: To celebrate 25 years of the International Gemini Observatory, we’re launching a two-part Blog series! Today, we’re exploring the global contributions made to make this monumental astronomical project happen. noirlab.edu/public/blog/... #astronomy

Did you know that a single kilonova can forge more gold and platinum in a few seconds than has ever been mined on earth? Find out what else we learned when we spoke to Dimple, one of our LSST:UK team members working at @unibirmingham.bsky.social 🔭 www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-11...

What does the fox say?🦊 Today, we’re showing off our favorite pictures of culpeo foxes we’ve spotted around Cerro Pachón, home of NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory. 📸 💡Fun fact: While these little guys look like foxes (and are called foxes), they’re actually more closely related to wolves and jackals!🔭

Art meets science at the @epcc.bsky.social UK Data Access Centre. A new mural by Aaron Ballantyne is inspired by Mary Somerville and the First Look images from @vrubinobs.bsky.social 🔭 🎨 www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-11...

What does the @vrubinobs.bsky.social LSST hold in store for a particle physicist? We asked Prof Jeff Tseng of @oxfordphysics.bsky.social to tell us why he's looking forward to the start of Rubin operations: www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-11... 🔭

Have you ever heard of Betty Webster? I hadn't until recently, and she co-discovered the first black hole ever found! Here's her story, to honor her memory and fantastic accomplishment. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/the-woman-... 🔭 🧪

Comet 3I/ATLAS is only the third object ever identified as entering our solar system from elsewhere in the galaxy. NASA will host a live event at 3 p.m. EST, Wednesday, Nov. 19, to share imagery of the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS collected by a number of the agency’s missions. 🔭 🧪

An exciting opportunity to be part of one of the biggest astronomy projects of the decade... 🔭

New #Euclid image drop from @esa.int and @ec-euclid.bsky.social! 😍 Meet LDN 1641, a ‘dark cloud’ about 1300 light-years from Earth, observed by Euclid back in 2023 to test its guiding systems. ⬛️☁️

Kilonovae are tricky to detect, due to their faintness and fast decaying nature. In a new blog, two members of the team that built Lasair, a @vrubinobs.bsky.social community broker, explain how Lasair is equipped to hunt down kilonovae. 🔭 community.lsst.org/t/finding-ki...

Did you know? When scientists began brainstorming @vrubinobs.bsky.social 3 decades ago, they had the title Dark Matter Telescope in mind? With its wide field of view and sensitivity to the faintest objects, Rubin will reveal how dark matter and dark energy shape the universe. 🔭 #darkmatterday.

Congratulations to @4most-eu.bsky.social which has achieved First Light, splitting the light into 18,000 spellbinding colour components. 🎉 Read more about this multi-tasking telescope, which will collect the largest ever spectroscopic sample of supernovae. 🔭 tinyurl.com/2wnw86zd

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Listen up! The @physicsastronomyed.bsky.social Career Development Scholarship provides full PhD funding for students from a Black heritage, including mixed Black background. Deadline to apply is 24 November 2025. UK & international prospective students can apply. 🔭 www.ph.ed.ac.uk/studying/pos...

"Work hard, persevere, but don't be afraid to try something else if it stops being fun." Words of wisdom from LSST:UK project Leader Bob Mann of @physicsastronomyed.bsky.social in our latest 'Spotlight' interview. 🔭 www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-10...

Rubin Comet Catchers is the FIRST citizen science project using data from @vrubinobs.bsky.social and the SECOND most popular project to launch on @zooniverse.bsky.social this year. @chrislintott.bsky.social explains more in our news section. 🔭 www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-10...

An exciting and positive read – we're happy to see the piece give a shoutout to rising talent in #astronomy, including Astha whom we interviewed recently about her LSST:UK work too.

Get to know the people working in the UK to make the @vrubinobs.bsky.social LSST happen. We caught up with @cfrohmaier.bsky.social to find out more about his work with @4most-eu.bsky.social TiDES and what he's looking forward to most about the Rubin survey 🔭 www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-09...

Get a peek behind the scenes at @vrubinobs.bsky.social . Huge screens, live feeds, gallons of strong coffee... welcome to the Control Room at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. It's where the training, remote observing, and real-time support happens. 🔭 rubinobservatory.org/news/slac-co...

Celestial alignment captured by @peterlewis55.bsky.social this afternoon! Behold the Moon, on its journey around the Earth, moving to temporarily block out the light from planet Venus. 🔭🧪 Absolutely cracking photos Peter - thanks so much for sharing!

We sat down with team member Astha to find out what fuels her passion for the Universe. Learn what she'd be doing if she wasn't exploring the low surface brightness frontier. Find out more in our interview: www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-09... 🔭

Over the next decade, the @vrubinobs.bsky.social survey will collect about 500 petabytes of data, equivalent to half a million 4K-UHD Blu-ray disks. Find out more about Rubin's extraordinary data demands in this interview with @markgbeckett.bsky.social 🔭: www.space.com/technology/c...

Lasair is one of the 7 independent brokers that will ingest and process @vrubinobs.bsky.social data, and serve astronomical alerts to the broader scientific community. We asked Lasair team member Roy Williams of @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social what inspires his work 🔭 www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-08...

Have you downloaded the @vrubinobs.bsky.social Orbitviewer App yet? It gives you access to detailed information about planets, dwarf planets, near-earth objects, main belt asteroids, trans-Neptunian objects, comets, interstellar objects, and much more. Start exploring now! orbitviewer.app/en/ 🔭

Aside from Ghostbusters, is the secondary mirror on @vrubinobs.bsky.social the coolest thing ever made in New York? Corning Inc, its co-makers, have been nominated for the Coolest Thing Made in New York Manufacturing Contest! 🔭 Find out more about the mirror: rubinobservatory.org/news/seconda...

We think there's no such thing as a typical scientist. Our new 'In the spotlight' series goes behind the scenes to get to know some of the individuals working on the @vrubinobs.bsky.social LSST. First up, Dr Elham Saremi of @unisouthampton.bsky.social www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-08... 🔭

We're going to need some more hot beverages 🥶☕️ Cerro Pachón got its third winter storm of the season this past weekend, getting ~30cm of snow! 😱 Many thanks to our hard-working crews for getting the roads safe and clear! 🔭🧪 📷: NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory

BBC News next to appreciate the curtains, talking @vrubinobs.bsky.social and Comet 3I/ATLAS

7 billion-year-old comet caught on camera! @vrubinobs.bsky.social is already helping reveal the secrets of the Universe. Hear from @megschwamb.bsky.social on how a serendipitous event should help us better understand Comet 3I/Atlas : www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2025-08... 🔭

If you couldn't study science at school, or the teaching was bad, don't worry, you could still become a leading scientist and even an Astronomer Royal. My colleague @pallabg.bsky.social story on Prof Michele Dougherty's new appointment and her brilliant career www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

After a long and exhausting but stimulating week at the Rubin Community Workshop, I got to talk about some of the first science results coming from @vrubinobs.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4 Today (24 minutes in) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Blimey, that’s a line up! If you’re at #latitude today, come see my three brilliant guests, and a little bit of me. On tomorrow with the brilliant Steve Pretty too.

ICYMI, a bunch of awesome @vrubinobs.bsky.social colleagues pulled together a lightning fast, highly custom analysis of a new interstellar object with very early commissioning data Once we're fully up and running, science is going to be off the hook You're not ready 🔭

Our University Research Fellowships are now open for applications. These fellowships are for outstanding early career scientists to pursue cutting-edge scientific research and build an independent research career. Find out more: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/unive...

DAY 5 #NAM2025durham 🛰 Its the final day of NAM! Here are the special events for today: 🖼 final chance to see participant artwork around the building 🎨 art room demo at lunchtime 🏆closing ceremony Thank you all for joining us at #NAM2025! We hope you enjoyed!

Day 4 of #NAM2025durham is almost in the books... but wait, it's not over yet! The scientific sessions may have finished for the day but tonight there will be a live recording of our super popular The Supermassive Podcast, listened to by 90,000 space fans around the world. 🎙️🚀🪐 ⤵️

Lots of Rubin action at @nam25-durham.bsky.social this week, including @grahamsmithastro.bsky.social who'll be giving an overview of the @vrubinobs.bsky.social /LSST Science Collaborations, and what data to expect when as commissioning is completed and the survey begins. 🔭

Speaking at @nam25-durham.bsky.social NAM 2025 in Durham: Feng-Yuan Liu on "Dust-obscured star-formation history back to z ≃ 7 revealed by ALMA and JWST PRIMER". Feng-Yuan has published in #MNRAS as a co-author: academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...

My new book, Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact, is out now from Reaktion Books! It's all about the exoplanets that astronomers are discovering, seen through the lens of science fiction, featuring interviews with astronomers and sf authors reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/amazing...