Rubin LSST:UK

ONE female scientist features in GCSE exam specifications 😡 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A smooth galaxy, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the COSMOS survey. It is at redshift 0.19 (lookback time 2.41 billion years) with coordinates (150.75529, 2.38991). 57 volunteers classified this galaxy in Galaxy Zoo: Hubble.

Free tickets are available for my upcoming @greshamcollege.bsky.social lecture 'Our Sun, Our Star', on 11th November. Register now to attend or watch online - in person tickets will go fast. www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/sun... 🔭

"I have to emphasise how lucky I was. Because when we started this project, everybody realised this was maybe a good idea, but very few thought it would work, including myself." A wonderfully modest quote from Nobel Prize winning Prof Francis Halzen. 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"She was a brilliant scientist." –– Vera Rubin In 2010, Rubin published her recollections of Charlotte Moore Sitterly in the Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage. articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-...

Astrophysicist Charlotte Moore Sitterly was born #OTD in 1898. She compiled extensive data on optical and later UV spectra, and her spectroscopic tables are still in use today. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭 👩‍🔬 Image: AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives / Michael A. Duncan

Have you watched the latest @greshamcollege.bsky.social lecture from @chrislintott.bsky.social yet? It's a thrilling ride from the early days of @vrubinobs.bsky.social to some of the latest images and insights. Watch it now! 🔭 youtu.be/VUJU6PjO5HE?...

NASA picture of the day today is a real 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿beauty! This is a composite image of the ~5000yo Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis. The amazing Giuseppe Petricca has only gone and photographed the Sun at noon there, every few days, for a whole year. #Dedication 🔭🧪👌 ℹ️: science.nasa.gov/image-articl...

🍂✨ It's officially (astronomical) Autumn! 🌍 At the autumn equinox, the Sun shines directly above the Earth's equator, so day and night become nearly equal in length everywhere around the world. 🍁 The 2026 autumnal equinox occurred today at 1.06am BST

It's that time of year again... Garden telescope time! 🤩🔭

Nebula image wins Royal Observatory competition www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory should be able to spot oceans on Earth-like alien worlds, if the geometry is just right. Plus: rainbows! (maybe) Story by me in New Scientist www.newscientist.com/article/2588...

Who's up for a trip to Edinburgh!? 🔭 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🪐

Great to read BBC Sky At NIght interview with Cyrielle Opitom (@physicsastronomyed.bsky.social) on why comet 3I/ATLAS is a big deal. There's also a nod to how @vrubinobs.bsky.social can help us better understand interstellar objects 🔭 www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/3i-atla...

The LSST:UK has a Junior Associates Network (JAN). The community of LSST:UK Consortium junior associates share knowledge, collaborate, mentor and promote their work as they get grips with the large data volumes coming from the @vrubinobs.bsky.social in LSST. 🤝 lsst-uk.atlassian.net/wiki/x/T4AuAQE

This morning's launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from the Kennedy Space Center was amazing! Roman is now on a million-mile journey to Lagrange point 2, where it will soon reveal the universe’s darkest secrets: https://go.nasa.gov/4qIa69I #NASARoman 🔭 Credit: J. Barrientes/STScI.

Another exciting step in furthering our understanding of the Universe begins… 🔭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A new set of eyes is heading for the cosmos! 🚀🔭 Congrats to NASA, Space Telescope Science Institute (our sister org in AURA Astronomy), and all on the launch of the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope! 🎉 NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory and Roman together will give us complementary views of the cosmos🌟

Hello, the telescope is named after Dr. Nancy Grace Roman, NASA's first Chief of Astronomy and championed for the Hubble Space Telescope. You can learn more about Dr. Roman below. 🔭

Great news! The new Secretary of State for Science (& business, innovation, trade) thinks us scientists are "national assets". High-5's all round! He's right that the "UK is a global leader in science & research", but only if we invest in it wisely. 1/2 🧪⚛️🔭 www.linkedin.com/posts/jonath...

BBC Science Focus magazine has published a round up of the best images from @vrubinobs.bsky.social since it released the First Look images a year ago. Feast your eyes... 🔭 www.sciencefocus.com/space/vera-c...

Looking for a reason to avoid the next task on your to-do list? Try a one-minute sky survey! Space Surveyors is a new game from @vrubinobs.bsky.social Seek out stars, galaxies, supernovae, comets, asteroids and watch out for the clouds! 🔭 spacesurveyors.app

Who’s up for a game? 🔭 imgs.xkcd.com/comics/vera_...

Fun paper on when to submit your paper to arXiv Main finding? Don't submit on the weekend (if you want max citations) arxiv.org/abs/2608.11268

Eclipse vibes 🌚🌞 🇪🇸

showing the sun to the assembled masses #astronomy

I wouldn't call myself a cartoonist, but I had the vision and just needed it to be on paper to the best of my ability.

Join us on Wednesday for live coverage of the total solar eclipse! Live from Javalambre, Spain, from 19:30 CEST with: 🎤 interviews 📹 explainers 🔭 telescope feeds 🚁 drone shots 🔴 live feeds from different locations Details: www.esa.int/Science_Expl... #EuropeanSolarEclipse

Happy solar eclipse day! ☀️🌒 This evening people across the UK will be treated to the country's fullest solar eclipse since 1999. Around 90-96% of the Sun will be obscured by the Moon at the peak, which will take place at around 19:00 BST, depending on where you are. Are you going to watch it? 😎

Met office cloud cover forecast for the partial #eclipse 12th Aug 😠 Still time for the weather Gods to change their minds, but if not it'll be a case of all the Northerners heading South for a day trip to Swansea. 🔭

If you haven't sourced a pair of #eclipse glasses for the upcoming #solareclipse, fear not: just find yourself some leafy trees to sit under (cat optional). Top photo @rainorshine99.bsky.social 🤩

Would love to know if there's anyone living in this remote part of northern Russia that might see the start of the 12 August eclipse next week.

😎 Eye safety mode: ON! Excited about next week's #SolarEclipse? We too! But whether you'll be watching a total or partial eclipse, make sure you observe it safely. Here's what you need to know to enjoy the event without putting your eyesight at risk 👇 🔭

Earlier today, the discarded upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket impacted on the Moon. As part of a coordinated observing campaign, our Very Large Telescope detected spectral lines of sodium and lithium gas in the impact plume lasting for 5-10 minutes after impact. 🔭 🧪 📷 ESO/C. Schmidt et al. 1/4

"The best thing about my job? There's always more data!" We asked research software engineer Manu Antony of @physicsastronomyed.bsky.social about the challenge of working on @vrubinobs.bsky.social. As a big fan of big data, he's up for the challenge. Find out more: www.lsst.ac.uk/news/2026-07... 🔭

More on the UK funding cuts to science www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...