Scientists aren't the only inhabitants of Cerro Pachón, home to the @vrubinobs.bsky.social 🔭 Find out who else you can find at the summit, from dulcet songbirds to basking viscachas. rubinobservatory.org/gallery/coll...

Give your desktop a glow up with some cosmic wallpaper. The breathtaking @vrubinobs.bsky.social Ocean of Stars image is available here, optimised for different screen sizes: rubinobservatory.org/gallery/coll... 🔭 📷 Image credit: NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NOIRLab/SLAC/AURA

In Spain for the 12 August #EuropeanSolarEclipse? Join us for a free public observation programme in the city of León, organised in collaboration with the University of León and the city council. Details 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 🔭 🧪 ☀️

I, amongst many fantastic colleagues, had the lovely surprising news today that I’ve had an asteroid named after me in recognition for my work on meteorites, with the fireball alliance and on my work on inclusivity in astronomy and geophysics with @royalastrosoc.bsky.social ✨

Go and see this if you're in London over the weekend! 🔭 #ESAEuclid #astronomy #space #research

"Restructuring research funding as a choice between discovery and application gets the economics wrong, the evidence wrong and the people wrong." Prof. Hiranya Peiris pushes back on the proposed funding cuts to UK particle physics and astronomy in a powerful way. 🔭 ⚛️ 🧪 rdcu.be/friwM

@durhamphysics.bsky.social researchers are part of one of the most ambitious studies of the Universe ever undertaken. The Vera C Rubin Observatory’s LSST digital camera will spend 10 years capturing the entire southern sky! 👉 tinyurl.com/mvdskhku @lsstuk.bsky.social @icc-durham.bsky.social

The LSST will run for a decade – just how much sky can Rubin cover in a week? This map shows a representative week for the LSST. The tile colour represents the filter used for each exposure (u, g, r, i, z, and y), revealing how @vrubinobs.bsky.social will build a multicolour map of the Universe. 🔭

The moment we've all been waiting for is finally here… On June 29, 2026, NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory officially began the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)! 🔭🧪☄️🌌 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/action-...

Who knew clouds of dust and hints of far-off galaxies could be so mesmerising? The @vrubinobs.bsky.social LSST has begun and we’re here for the ride! This project is decades in the making, and the hard work of thousands of people around the world. Read more: www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2026-06... 🔭

You've seen Euclid's dazzling image of the Milky Way’s crowded heart. Now explore it yourself. Zoom in, zoom out, go wherever your curiosity takes you 🤩 – in #ESAsky 👇 sky.esa.int/esasky/?targ... 🔭 🧪 ☄️

If you're bombarded with up to 7 million alerts a night, it's good to have a shortcut. Developed in the UK, the Lasair data broker filters millions of events from the @vrubinobs.bsky.social alerts stream in almost real time. Get to grips with it and hunt down transients at lasair.lsst.ac.uk 🔭

Looking for a 5 minute 33 second break from earth-based monotony? Watch this video explaining how @vrubinobs.bsky.social is mapping the Universe. 🔭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMo4...

Space projects running ahead of schedule? This is rare! Huge celebratory high-5's all round to the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team, due for early launch this August 🥳 This beast will discover >100,000 planets orbiting distant stars and so so much more 🤩🧪🔭🛰️ ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/blogs/roman/...

NASA’s Artemis II Moon Mission Research Continues on Earth science.nasa.gov/uncategorize... #Artemis 🧪🔭

How do you go from studying bone marrow stem cells to supporting @vrubinobs.bsky.social science? Our colleague Timothy Noble, a Senior Developer and Systems Administrator, tells us more 🔭 www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2026-05...:

🥳Congrats to @cometinterceptor.bsky.social on the completion of its 1st instrument! Fun fact: it'll launch before we know where it's going, to lie in wait in an L2 "parking orbit". On the discovery of an interesting comet heading into the solar system: off it will go to intercept! Launch 2029 🧪🔭⚛️

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Had a wonderful time talking about supermassive black holes and the Vera Rubin Observatory at Pint of Science in Sydney last night! 🔭 @vrubinobs.bsky.social @unisq.bsky.social @pintofscienceau.bsky.social @pintsworld.bsky.social #PintofScience #sydney

Excited to see our Lasair team in this piece by @astrojonny.bsky.social . Lasair is one of the @vrubinobs.bsky.social data brokers helping scientists sift through the huge amounts of data that Rubin is generating.

Can you imagine having the vision to build an observatory that will create an ultra-wide, ultra-high-definition time-lapse record of our Universe? 30 years ago, astronomer Tony Tyson did. And now he's being honoured in the TIME100 list. www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2026-05...

Jim's started his 1st week as the new @royalastrosoc.bsky.social President with a💥, fighting #STFC funding cuts to astro, particle & nuclear physics 💪 "We urge you to commission a wider study of their impacts, not just on research, but on higher education and the economy as a whole"🔭🧪⚛️

The bit I love about astronomical observations is the potential to find the unexpected. This is a result that's not on my bingo card for occultation studies. A research group in Japan has found a Kuiper belt object with a tenuous atmosphere that shouldn't be there, but it is.

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The inspiring Prof Hiranya Peiris holds the Professorship of Astrophysics (1909) @cam.ac.uk. She recently sat down with @jimalkhalili.bsky.social to talk all things astronomy, including about her work on the LSST. Read more and listen to the episode: www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2026-04...

Heloise Stevance, Dan Ryczanowski and Steven Gough-Kelly showcased some of the features of the @lsstuk.bsky.social Broker #Lasair, which receives and processes up to 10 million alerts from @vrubinobs.bsky.social every night, capturing the ever-changing cosmos.

Attending the @lsstuk.bsky.social All Hand meeting remotely today. I learned about this really nice summary of Oxford University's contributions to @vrubinobs.bsky.social

It’s a sunny start to our All Hands Meeting in Manchester today. We’re teaming up with @eucliduk.bsky.social for a week of discussion, discovery and networking. 🔭

🛰️ Our European Service Module has successfully separated from Orion's crew module! 🚀 After propelling the spacecraft over 1 million km in deep space, it will now burn up in Earth's atmosphere, as the astronauts continue their journey home 🌍

✅ #Artemis II splashdown at 01:07 BST/02:07 CEST!

A great collaboration. Congratulations to all involved in this awesome inspiring mission.

Want some lunchtime reading: how about some of the latest #astronomy research published by team members in @rasjournals.bsky.social ? The latest two papers explore mitigation for catalogue-based angular power spectra and isophote shape analysis: www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2026-04... 🔭

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🔭 Studying space and planetary science? Explore the new "Ariel: mission, science & community engagement" Special Issue from #RASTI, a journal from @rasjournals.bsky.social. Discover today! oxford.ly/4tpymxB

How does a software engineer find himself working on one of the world's most exciting astronomy projects? We asked one of our team members, Eduardo Toledo Romero, to find out. Read the interview here 🔭 : www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2026-03...

With April around the corner, delve into our Smile launch kit to get ready for launch day! 👇 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... (available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Chinese) 📺 Live broadcast 9 April 08:10 CEST 👉 watch.esa.int 🙋 If you have questions, #askESA 🔭 🧪 🌞

British science excels at asking questions that help us understand the Universe. This BBC InDepth report by @pallabg.bsky.social highlights the wide-ranging impacts of a likely 30% cut to funding for UK particle physics and astronomy research. 🔭https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czr0zmzzp84o

Wondering what makes the @vrubinobs.bsky.social such a powerful discovery engine? This excellent new video from Slac National Accelerator Laboratory explains all. 🔭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMo4...

Last week the @vrubinobs.bsky.social public alerts stream went live and a firehose of data began to flow. The UK's Lasair data broker stepped up to the plate, processing 800,000 alerts overnight. We're excited at the prospect of up to 7 million alerts per night! 🔭

Pleased to see #IRIS #Somerville computer @epcc.bsky.social can handle 1M+ events to be classified by @lsstuk.bsky.social #Lasair each night. On Tuesday, @vrubinobs.bsky.social began streaming details of changes in our night sky: a huge milestone for survey astronomy - www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2026-02...

Hunting down supernovae in near real time! Last night, the UK data broker Lasair ingested and rapidly processed 800,000 alerts as the @vrubinobs.bsky.social public alerts stream began! Now anyone can observe astronomical events as they unfold thanks to Rubin’s data brokers. What a milestone! 🔭

A couple of weeks ago I was asked to speak at the AI and Ethics conference organised at Oxford - my talk has now been put online and summarised in a written piece you can read for free! After the shenanigans at NeurIPS, scientific rigour is more important than ever www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-01...

We catch up with Héloïse Stevence @sydonahi.bsky.social to talk astronomy and machine learning – and discover how many Rubin images this Schmidt AI in Science Fellow can classify per minute with the human eye. Read our latest In the Spotlight interview: www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2026-02... 🔭

@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