Congrats @astrojake.bsky.social, can’t wait to work on this amazing program! Eclipses for the win 🌟🪐

So fun to see our work on #exoplanet WASP-127 b, led by the incredible Lisa Nortmann, as one of the "Top 10 Breakthroughs" of 2025 according to @physicsworld.bsky.social! 🔭🧪 Check it out below ⬇️ including a BUNCH more cool things I had no idea happened this year?! physicsworld.com/a/top-10-bre...

Published in #MNRAS: "Eclipse mapping with Ariel: future prospects for a population-level mapping survey", Valentine et al. This is Fig. 2: for the caption & to read the paper please visit academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... @royalastrosoc.bsky.social @academic.oup.com

It was great getting to share these exciting results as part of the BOWIE+ seminar series. Ariel has the potential to revolutionise our 3D understanding of exoplanet atmospheres, with a phase curve survey of ~100 targets within its reach. Let’s push to make it happen!

New paper alert 🔔 If you like eclipse mapping and are excited for the future opportunities that Ariel will provide, then check it out! (Bonus: writing an eclipse mapping proposal? We've ranked all the best eclipse mapping targets for both Ariel and JWST!) arxiv.org/abs/2510.03147

Check out this awesome work from the JWST-TST DREAMS team! Using a combination of @NASAHubble and @NASAWebb MIRI data, we made the first characterisation of a cloud species in a transiting exoplanet atmosphere: quartz clouds in the atmosphere of WASP-17b! 💨☁️🪐✨(1/3) webbtelescope.org/contents/new...

Excited to share the 1st direct evidence of quartz clouds in the atmosphere of a transiting #exoplanet! With #JWST MIRI we found nanoparticles of quartz, SiO2, causing a spike in the planet's spectrum at 8.6 micron unveiling the Oxygen locked in the clouds doi.org/10.3847/2041...