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chrislintott

2 months

Out now from wherever you get good books: 'Our Accidental Universe' - the true stories of how we stumble upon truth in the cosmos. (PS Special North American version - Accidental Astronomy - out in June)

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4 years

Well played ⁦⁦ @OxfordPhysics ⁩

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Results just released from @NANOGrav and international partners show - for the first time - the signature of long-wavelength gravitational waves rippling through space. (1/n)

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Gorgeous shot of the annular phase of today's eclipse; it's path meant this will have been seen by very few.

Vinnie Karetak ❄quadruple vaxed 💉💉💉💉

@arviamiut

3 years

the best I got for the Annular Eclipse from Iqaluit

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A team led by @jgreaves6 have found what might be signs of life high in Venus' atmosphere. They have detected phospine, a gas which on Earth is produced only by life, in quantities they say are too large to be produced any other way. (1/17)

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5 years

1. No, they’re not. 2. He’s not a professor 3. Oh god.

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6 years

This appears to be a 2016 survey of about 1000 people. Same survey found 60% didn’t think dinosaurs were real. Methodology not online. In other words: likely a result of leading questions or some other framing. Don’t give this nonsense airtime.

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@thismorning

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A recent survey found that a staggering 52% of Brits think the moon landings from 1969-72 were fake! What do you think? 🌕🚀

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A few weeks ago we heard about the discovery of Phosphine on Venus. This evening, someone at the @IAU_org decided they were annoyed other people were in the limelight. I wrote a response to their statement:

A response to IAU Commission F3 on Phosphine

docs.google.com

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@chrislintott

4 years

You might be hearing a lot about this asteroid which will whizz past on Saturday - but the minimum distance is about 3.5 million miles, so ignore clickbait like this.

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@IGN

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NASA has confirmed that a 'potentially hazardous' asteroid is hurtling towards Earth at an incredible speed.

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5 years

"It was funny but it made your brain ache. A lecture's only good if it makes your brain ache a bit." - Felicity Hicks, who is 8, and who attended my recent talk in Cambridge. That's going on all the posters.

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@chrislintott

5 years

I don't know why I think this is cool, but China's growing cotton seeds on the Moon.

Andrew Jones

@AJ_FI

5 years

Xinhua has images from multiple days, showing clear progress of cotton seeds:

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5 years

Isn't this a joyful photo? The rover looks somehow happy to be there.

Cosmic Penguin

@Cosmic_Penguin

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#ChangE4 's rover Yutu 2 is now on the Moon surface: ()

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4 years

Venus hanging above a crescent Moon. Look west now if you’re in the UK - it’s good for the soul. Pretty clear Earthshine too - the dark part of the Moon slightly illuminated by light reflecting off our own planet’s atmosphere.

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@chrislintott

11 months

Some news, as they say: I'm delighted to announce my appointment as the 39th Gresham Professor of Astronomy - giving public lectures in the City of London and online, free to all, from September. (1/n)

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@chrislintott

4 years

Tonight, at about 9.30pm UK time, @nasa and @SpaceX will try to launch the first crewed flight of the Dragon, taking two astronauts to the ISS. At 9.50, they should be visible from here - really looking forward to running into the garden to watch!

NASA

@NASA

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Together with @SpaceX , we will return human spaceflight to American soil after nearly a decade. Tomorrow is not only a big day for our teams – it’s a big day for our country. #LaunchAmerica

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@chrislintott

3 years

All too often, I find administration is at the forefront of my science...

Joe Biden

@JoeBiden

3 years

Science will always be at the forefront of my administration.

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@chrislintott

2 years

This story from @nasa is causing confusion- black holes don’t make sounds! So what’s actually happening?

NASA Exoplanets

@NASAExoplanets

2 years

The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we've picked up actual sound. Here it's amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole!

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@chrislintott

5 years

If you have footage of the lunar eclipse at 4.41 GMT check your image carefully...There might have been an impact during the eclipse!

Will Gater

@willgater

5 years

Wow >>> I've just checked in PS & the flashes from the 2 different feeds are in *exactly* the same location. Given there was *also* a visual obs I'd bet good money this was indeed a meteoroid impact on the Moon during the #lunareclipse h/t @AwesomeAstroPod

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@chrislintott

5 years

Cool! Our nearest star might have another planet!

Lee Billings

@LeeBillings

5 years

You saw it here first, at #Discuss2019 . The Red Dots team is publicly announcing a new candidate planet around Proximan Centauri — “Proxima c,” which would be a world with a minimum mass of 6 Earths at 1.5 AU. Needs confirmation, but still... !!!!

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@chrislintott

4 years

Exciting news! Our next #BBC Sky at Night program will be on BBC4, at 10.30pm on MONDAY 14th September - the day after you might be expecting us. We've moving so we can cover an exciting new result that will be announced earlier that day. Please watch - it'll be worth it.

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@chrislintott

6 years

I’m not sure I’d have believed this was an image from a telescope, not a spaceprobe. Glorious!

ESO

@ESO

6 years

Supersharp images of planet #Neptune . New technique called laser tomography allows ESO to capture images from the ground at visible wavelengths that are sharper than those from #Hubble Credit: @ESO /P. Weibacher (AIP)

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3 years

I hope humanity in some form stays around to watch this slow dance of the stars.

Corey S. Powell

@coreyspowell

3 years

If you could watch the sky long enough, you'd see that all of the stars are alive with motion. This marvelous @ESAGaia animation shows the actual star positions for the next 1.6 million years.

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@Astro_Wright At least two members of our department have been thrown out of the Half Moon pub in oxford for aggressively insisting on pointing out their sign has a crescent. In two separate instances.

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@chrislintott

2 years

I have several questions.

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@chrislintott

5 years

When my tardigrade army return from the Moon they will be more powerful than ever. Cower before their tiny might, Earth-bound creatures.

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@chrislintott

5 years

It's not a secret the #skyatnight isn't the biggest budget in television, but we do try and be ambitious. If you like that you can help by watching tonight's awesome program on the @ehtelescope image of a black hole. Tonight. 10pm. BBC4.

BBC The Sky at Night

@BBCStargazing

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Sneak peak of our new episode! Tune in Sunday at 10pm @BBCFOUR #skyatnight #astronomy #supermassiveblackhole

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chrislintott

@chrislintott

2 years

Time to retweet Katie’s useful guide…

Katie Mack

@AstroKatie

10 years

🌓🌎🌞 <-- lunar eclipse 🌎🌓🌞 <-- solar eclipse 🌎🌞🌗 <-- apocalypse

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@chrislintott

4 years

Another clear evening here in Oxford. If you go outside and look West now, the brilliant ‘star’ is Venus. Go look! Tonight it is visible longer after sunset than any other day of the year.

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@chrislintott

2 months

NASA defunding Chandra, a brilliant and still functioning x-Ray telescope, is really upsetting. We need it, and it’s science, and the amount of money is small in government terms.

Chris Combs (iterative design enjoyer)

@DrChrisCombs

2 months

Could we not spare like one F-35 to continue to fund the world's only ever high resolution X-ray space telescope?

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@chrislintott

4 years

Let's have more Venus/Moon pics, please. Never mind if you just have a phone - snap something!

Kaz Jones

@KazJJones

4 years

@chrislintott Yep, just been out to take a photo on my iPhone

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@chrislintott

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And if I can add - please please please watch our show tonight. #skyatnight was trusted and able at short notice to make an extraordinary, in depth half hour report that will go beyond headlines. If you want more of that on the BBC, please watch.

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XKCD gets it: 'A partial eclipse is like a cool sunset. A total eclipse is like someone broke the sky'. If you're in North America and can get into the track of totality next Monday, do.

Eclipse Coolness

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1 month

I don’t really have words for that. #Eclipse2024

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@chrislintott

2 years

I haven’t tweeted about the Perseus meteor shower, which peaks tonight, because the Moon ruins it, washing out most of the fainter meteors. Yet another reason to get rid of the Moon, if you ask me.

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@chrislintott

4 years

@ProfBrianCox @adrianbowyer @AdamRutherford I’m an astronomer. I found one carrot and assumed all carrots are the same. If presented with another size, I will call that a type II carrot and ignore.

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@chrislintott

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@NANOGrav This is a staggeringly difficult measurement - requiring, amongst much else, knowing the position of the centre of mass of the solar system to a precision of less than 100m. Previous results were confused because we didn't know where Jupiter was accurately enough (5/n)

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@chrislintott

4 years

Lots of people are either excited or scared that #Betelgeuse is about to go supernova. The fact it’s dimming is amazing - so weird that Orion looks different - but it’s no more likely to go bang in a dip like this than before.

Eric Mamajek

@EricMamajek

4 years

Regarding #Betelgeuse 's "historic" dimming, here's V-band & photovis magnitude estimates from @AAVSO database over past century. *You* try maintaining constant luminosity w/~20 solar masses spread out within the size of Jupiter's orbit, w/convection & nucleosynthesis is 3D!

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. @NASAPersevere 's drone, Ingenuity, has been dropped off, ready for a flight perhaps as early as next weekend. (Beautiful image work from @_TheSeaning )

Seán Doran

@_TheSeaning

3 years

Survive The Night. @NASAPersevere

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Nice image of what is almost certainly a supernova in nearby galaxy M85. Cool!

Graeme Coates

@GraemeCoates

4 years

@chrislintott 400mm not really enough focal length for this target, but candidate SN clearly obvious to the N of the galaxy core (N to right).

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2 years

NOT NOW ERIC

Eric Berger

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2 years

For most space science missions, the majority of "risk" is retired after the launch. With the James Webb Space Telescope, only about 10 percent of the mission risk has now been retired.

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5 months

This is not an argument against the increasing clutter of low-Earth orbit that I had considered before.

Pastor Alex

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5 months

The ATHEISTS are using SATELLITES to intercept prayer to JESUS and turn them EVEL!!!!

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2 years

Like everyone else, I’m reading @terryandrob ’s biography of Terry Pratchett (it’s excellent). Which means I should tell my best Terry story… (not the one about him spontaneously producing a bat detector in Patrick’s garden; that was just standard Terry) (1/n)

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4 years

Earth as seen by a passing spacecraft is profound and beautiful.

Bepi

@ESA_Bepi

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Look, guys! Wow! Isn't it beautiful! I know it's only black and white. But still, you folks live on a beautiful planet. I have tears in my eyes. @ESA_MTM thinks I'm sentimental #BepiColomboEarthFlyby

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@chrislintott

5 months

Congratulations Dame Maggie!

Science and Technology Facilities Council

@STFC_Matters

5 months

Congratulations from all of us to space scientist and recent STFC Council member Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock on being made a Dame in the #NewYearsHonours for services to Science Education and to Diversity @BBCStargazing @uniofleicester

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3 years

You wouldn’t know this is a climate change story from the Telegraph, would you? The Moon’s orbit isn’t changing but rising sea levels make the same tides that have always happened more devastating.

Telegraph Environment

@TeleEnvironment

3 years

🔴 @NASA is warning of a "wobble" in the moon's orbit that is set to see the world face significantly more natural disasters. An onslaught of coastal flooding starting in the mid-2030s is expected, Nasa has warned 🧵👇

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@bielleogy (brilliantly misunderstood by a bunch of conservatives who didn’t get the reference)

Panic! At the Disks: First Rest-frame Optical Observations of...

We present early results regarding the morphological and structural properties of galaxies seen with the James Webb Space Telescope at $z > 3$ in the Early Release Observations of SMACS 0723, a...

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4 years

Delighted to report that Congregation - the 'parliament' of @UniofOxford has voted to instruct the University to abolish the application fee for graduate study. This is a huge success for a grassroots campaign. Vote - by post during the chaos of March - was 419-380.

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4 years

Schedule for today’s exciting announcement: press conference at 4pm @RoyalAstroSoc (I don’t know it it will be streamed). At that point reporters who had advanced access can post their stories. Then 10.30pm @BBCFOUR #skyatnight with in depth interviews with the team responsible.

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@chrislintott

8 years

This is utterly disgusting. These are our friends and colleagues whose lives you’re talking about so casually.

Christoph Thoenißen 🇺🇦

@ThoenissenC

8 years

Just been promoted from Professor of Economics to UK Brexit bargaining chip. I love this place.

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2 years

On tomorrow’s #skyatnight , we visit scientists who are getting their hands on #JWST data for the first time. It’s a great show, one that only Sky at Night could make. Please watch.

BBC The Sky at Night

@BBCStargazing

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Tune in to the Sky at Night on Monday 15th August at 10pm on BBC4 and join the team on their James Webb Road Trip. They’ll be visiting the scientists using this remarkable new telescope! #skyatnight @chrislintott #maggieaderinpocock

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4 years

Let's have a second round of #lookingupinlockdown , shall we? If it's clear where you are tonight, nip outside and look East. The brightest star in this part of the sky right now is the planet Mars - you should be able to see it as a red or pink colour.

Damian Peach

@peachastro

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#Mars on October 30th. The best result so far this season. Note the Tharsis volcanoes poking through the morning mists at right. Valles Marineris is well resolved just below centre.

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Big news from the world of astronomy publishing: the @AAS_Publishing journals will be open access from Jan 1st. All our content, available to everyone, for free: #oa #aasopenaccess

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I've been waiting a very long while to tweet this, but my first solo book is out in October. It's got all sorts of astronomy, and a great story involving penguins and me looking like a fool...

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@chrislintott

7 years

We do have a much better idea where these latest merging black holes are, though, thanks to a new European experiment

Dr Sam Morrell

@smorrell

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The fact that the combo of @LIGO and @ego_virgo can localise to 60 square degrees is a stunning leap forward! Follow up is also much easier.

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This lunchtime, @NASAJuno will swing just 2600 miles above Jupiter’s cloud tops, with all of its instruments on. Can’t wait for the data.

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5 years

Our Prime Minister who wants to change visa rules to 'attract top scientists' should understand that we need to attract junior scientists, who are put off by the lack of funding, Brexit uncertainty and the high cost of visas and bureaucracy in moving to the UK.

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5 years

Love the instructions included for mounting a shuttle on your aircraft!

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6 years

Astronomers found 12 new (tiny!) moons around Jupiter. They will need names...

Coral reef experiment shows acidification from carbon dioxide slows growth

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Just a quick note to say how grateful I am to make that #skyatnight - especially for the instant ‘yes’ to the request we move our broadcast day to cover this story, the generosity of @jgreaves6 and team and the wisdom of Toby Macdonald, producer, who made an incredible show.

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#itsneveraliens .

The SETI Institute

@SETIInstitute

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Alien hunters detect mysterious radio signal from nearby star - It's almost certainly not an extraterrestrial telegram. But waves that seemed to come from the vicinity of Proxima Centauri will help astronomers refine their search techniques. #SETI

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Oops. Should probably wait for satellites to reach orbit before declaring victory. Commiserations to Virgin Orbit: space is hard.

Christopher Hope📝

@christopherhope

1 year

Science Minister George Freeman said: “This genuinely is a historic moment for Britain. “We’ve won the space race in Europe.”

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2 years

Amazing! Europa from @NASAJuno - beautiful, and such detail.

Will Gater

@willgater

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The JunoCam images of Europa from this morning's flyby are here! Here's my attempt at a quick process of one of them. What a view!

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@NANOGrav So large, in fact, that they have to use half the galaxy as a detector. They monitor pulses from roughly 70 pulsars, using them as precise clocks and looking for delays in the arrivals of the pulse due to the passage of a gravitational wave (4/n)

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6 years

I think it’s still true that the UK is the only country to build and launch a successful orbital rocket precisely once. We did it...and then stopped.

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Cold stuff is red Hot things are blue Astronomers plot temperature The opposite way to you. #academicvalentines

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Surprisingly, another (just about) clear night in Oxford. I’m going to look at the Pleiades - a beautiful cluster you can find by following Orion’s Belt up past Aldebaran. If you find them, I’d be interested to hear how many stars you can see...

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For all the excitement about the images yesterday, I hope someone at the agency is rethinking how they present such things. Yesterday’s #jwst release was painful, despite the best efforts of some fabulous communicators. (1/n)

Yvette Cendes

@whereisyvette

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You know, I love NASA but NASA TV is having a surprising number of glitches for the biggest event of the decade. 🫤

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@NANOGrav Today's results come from 15 years worth of observations, and a huge amount of efforts. The headline statistical test shows a 1 in a thousand chance that the observed pattern of delays is a coincidence (6/n)

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What are @DrBrianMay @StellarPlanet and I looking so happy about?

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No no no no no no. Asteroid 1998 OR2 is about to pass 4 million miles away. That's 16 times further than the Moon, not 'Too close for comfort' as @thetimes has it today. There's no danger at all:

New reason to stay in as asteroid 1998 OR2 races towards Earth

Brace yourselves. Just when you thought life under lockdown couldn’t be any more challenging, a visitor from far away is about to get a little too close for comfort.New photographs show that a...

www.thetimes.co.uk

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I’m supposed to be in the middle of my book tour right now...which isn’t happening. Therefore: ONLINE TALK: Sunday 5th April, 4pm BST. I’ll talk about galaxies, planets and penguins - and how you can explore the Universe. Hope you’ll join me!

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Not the most important thing, but things are about to get very messy in space. Obviously the International Space Station, but ESA’s Mars rover is due to launch in a Russian rocket later this year.

Jeff Foust

@jeff_foust

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Biden specifically mentions sanctions that affect Russia’s space program.

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I have a beer. (It’s been A Week). Anyone want to ask an astronomer anything? (Time savers; the bright thing in the west after sunset is Venus. Also, #itsneveraliens .

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@NANOGrav These waves, which buffet the Earth, are believed to most likely be the result of the mergers of supermassive black holes at the centres of galaxies (2/n)

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...and then gives the money away. Jocelyn is a hero.

Guardian Science

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British astrophysicist overlooked by Nobels wins $3m award for pulsar work

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I usually feel like this about spacecraft, but it’s so sad to have lost Arecibo, which contributed so much to our understanding of the cosmos and the solar system.

Dr. Kimberly Cartier

@AstroKimCartier

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This is very very sad :( The main platform at Arecibo collapsed this morning.

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@NANOGrav We've detected gravitational waves before, from @LIGO and friends, but those are at much shorter wavelengths, the results of the collision of black holes a few times the mass of the Sun. What @NANOGrav and friends have found - if real - is on a much larger scale (3/n)

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This makes the result slightly controversial - in the parlance of stats, it's a 4-sigma detection. There's a convention in particle physics that 5-sigma is required for a 'discovery'. I'm told there is some controversy within the team as to what should be claimed (7/n)

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Betelgeuse is back! The bright star faded but is now back to normal. Hooray!

Betelgeuse Status

@betelbot

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Now at 101% of my usual brightness! #Betelgeuse

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2 years

This is the most exciting unimpressive picture I've ever seen.

Dr. Jessie Christiansen

@aussiastronomer

2 years

JWST's first star!!!! 😍 (Yes, it's actually just one star.) (This is what it looks like before we align the 18 mirrors.) (They're working on aligning things now!)

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RIP Peter Higgs, most gracious of Nobel laureates, who went to the pub for lunch rather than have to deal with the fuss made by him winning the prize:

Peter Higgs obituary

Theoretical physicist whose name was attached to the Higgs boson, a sign of the mechanism underlying the structure of atoms

www.theguardian.com

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Strongly recommend trying to see the comet if your skies are clear!

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The best Northern Hemisphere viewing right now is about an hour or two before sunrise. While it is expected to fade slowly in the coming days, the good news is that it will move to the evening sky. More details and finder charts at

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Confirmation from Jim Green: #juno is pointing at the Sun!

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Delighted to report that the friendly man who occasionally calls my office to report that seasons don't exist has now had some thoughts about gravity.

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4 years

Just a reminder that our special #skyatnight is tomorrow at 10.30pm, not tonight as usual. It’s been moved to report on an announcement that’s being made tomorrow afternoon.

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65 years ago the first #skyatnight was broadcast, covering a recently arrived comet. Filming episode 820 on Monday; thanks for watching for so many years.

Mark Braxton 💙

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Happy 65th birthday to The Sky at Night, which began #OTD in 1957. Portrait of its former, long-serving presenter Patrick Moore taken in 1974 by Don Smith for @RadioTimes @BBCStargazing @briancoxlive @chrislintott @Avertedvision

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It's possible that the #Marshelicopter Ingenuity just completely the first powered flight in the air of another world. We'll find out in a couple of hours if it was successful.

NASA JPL

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#MarsHelicopter , you are cleared for takeoff. Flight commands are being sent. Watch live on Monday, April 19 at 3:15am PT (6:15am ET/1015 GMT) as the team finds out if they've made history by achieving the first powered flight on another planet.

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You lot clearly like pictures of radio telescopes. How's this?

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I think the tension is getting to me #plutoflyby http://t.co/FB9tPs5qNk

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A gathering ⁦ @OxfordPhysics ⁩ in honour of the 80th birthday of the incomparable and indefatigable Jocelyn Bell-Burnell.

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Less than two weeks until the publication of 'Our Accidental Universe' - can't wait for you all to get your hands on this beautiful tome. Preorders are really important, so if you can grab a copy please do so now!

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We're finally back! #Skyatnight tonight previews @ESA_JUICE , involves me playing squash, and much much more.

BBC The Sky at Night

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1 year

Catch The Sky at Night tonight at 10pm on BBC 4 and join @chrislintott , #DrMaggieAderinPocock , @ExoDransfield on the search for potential life on other worlds and @Avertedvision in looking for Venus 🪐 👽 #skyatnight

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For the next few minutes, I had the great delight of watching a conversation between two people at complete cross purposes, one talking about rapacious business practices in online book selling, and the other…not. (7/n)

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@lionhaven @latestinspace @BBCStargazing Ugh. The comet is on a 50,000 year orbit, so yes, if you want to see this comet, you have to do it now. It's bright, by comet standards, but far from spectacular - maybe just visible with the naked eye. There's a comet that bright most years, and I'd love something brighter!

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We're about an hour away from the release of the first proper images from #JWST , the telescope that launched on Christmas Day. (1/n)

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Boosted! Amazingly efficient. Sense of relief palpable. Still unable to connect to 5G by thinking.

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I say - we're astronomers, and this looks good to me. More evidence will come soon, from international partners including @eptagw , Indian and Japanese observers @InPTA_GW , and Australians @Arc_OzGrav many of whom are also publishing data today. (9/n)

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This is amazing. Press play!

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Images beginning to come out from larger telescopes - here's @LCO_Global 's 1 meter telescope's view of #DARTmission 's impact.

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@astrosnapper

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Animation (sped up 500x) from one of @LCO_Global 's 1 meter telescope at @SAAO South Africa showing effects of #DARTMission impact into Dimorphos (Still no threat to the Earth... Long straight streak is camera artifact)

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Just arrived somewhere (somewhere secret!), ready to film the next Sky at Night, and my goodness it feels odd to be in a hotel. I'm inside somewhere...but it's not my house. Odd.

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