Physics Prof at UCL. Sun & space. Vice pesident @popastro. Book: http://amzn.to/2nitfmi
In just under two week’s time there will be a solar eclipse (evening of 12th Aug.). From the UK you’ll see a very deep partial eclipse. Are you ready? www.popastro.com/blog/2026/07...
Get ready for the great August eclipse!There will be a partial eclipse of the Sun visible from the whole of the UK during the evening of Wednesday, 12 August 2026, with the Sun appearing as just a thin crescent – a unique event. But while ...www.popastro.comNice insight into some of the testing our satellites have to endure before they are deemed ready for the harsh space environment. Plato is due for launch early next year.
ESA Space SciencePlato meets Maxwell Our terrestrial planet hunter Plato has recently completed a series of key tests inside the Maxwell Test Chamber at ESTEC, demonstrating that its electronic equipment is fit to work in space. 🔭 🧪 1/3
This is a fantastic summary of key developments in our understanding of the Sun and its place in the Solar System. Well worth reading!
Royal Astronomical SocietyJust stepping away from NAM2026 for a moment (although not from the Sun 🌞)... The growing understanding of our star over the past two centuries has been reflected in a new online collection of papers collated from our journal MNRAS. Read the 32-page booklet at: academic.oup.com/mnras/pages/...
Congratulations to the SMILE team! We have a new mission on its way to study how the solar wind interacts with the Earth’s magnetosphere.
ESA Space ScienceMissed the Smile launch? We have you covered. Watch the replay here 👉 www.youtube.com/live/6q8aKbc... 🔭 🧪 ☀️
I love this image taken by the Artemis II crew. Their view of a total solar eclipse - revealing the faint light scattered by dust around the Sun and electrons in the atmosphere of the Sun itself: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...
Getting to the Moon has been an international effort. Find out about the European service module here: www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
European Service ModuleThe European Service Module is ESA’s contribution to NASA’s Orion spacecraft that will send astronauts to the Moon and beyond. It provides electricity, water, oxygen and nitrogen as well as keeping th...www.esa.intEuropean Space Agency✅ #Artemis II update: Flight Day 3, the Artemis crew are now closer to the Moon than they are to Earth. Their lunar journey powered by our European Service Module continues. Image at nasa.gov/image-detail... @exploration.esa.int
The four Artemis II astronauts are no longer orbiting Earth, but are now headed towards the Moon www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Artemis II blasts closer to the far side of the MoonThe mission's last, big push on its lunar journey takes humans out of the Earth's orbit for the first time since 1972.www.bbc.co.ukThe Sun’s been active today. Let’s hope we have no major space weather events that affect the Artemis II launch www.spaceweather.com
SpaceWeather.com -- News and information about meteor showers, solar flares, auroras, and near-Earth asteroidswww.spaceweather.comJeff FoustArtemis 2 countdown clock is now counting down.
Interested in doing a PhD in space heritage? If so, this opportunity might be for you!
Jon AgarWe have a 4-year AHRC-funded PhD studentship on 'Rescue curation of space heritage' advertised! Supervision by me, space scientist Lucie Green (@luciegreen.bsky.social), and curators of space and engineering at the Science Museum, Doug Millard and Ben Russell www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Great detective work combined with a stroke of luck!
Dr. Ryan FrenchBREAKING: This is Richard Carrington, the first person to document solar flares on the Sun & suggest their influence on aurora at Earth. The largest solar storm on record, the Carrington Event, bares his name. But, there has been no photograph available of Carrington – until now!
A fast coronal mass ejection from the Sun has arrived at Earth! If you have clear skies tonight, you might be lucky enough to see some aurora. It’s cloudy where I am so send photos!
Austrian Space Weather Office#northernlights are visible down to mid-latitudes in central Europe due to the recent #solarstorm impact, despite positive Dst (around +34) and relatively low Newell coupling (around 2-3) image credit: foto-webcam.eu
NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has reached its destination, from where it will study the inner regions and the edge of the vast magnetic bubble created by the Sun: www.jhuapl.edu/news/news-re...
NASA’s IMAP Reaches Orbit to Start Study of Heliosphere and Space WeatherNASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has reached its destination of the first Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L1), where it will start its prime mission of studying the heliosphere and ...www.jhuapl.eduStepped outside and immediately saw two very bright shooting stars before some light cloud rolled in. Fantastic! www.popastro.com/meteor/gemin...
Geminids - Meteor SectionInformation about the Geminid meteor showerwww.popastro.comSpace weather isn’t just about lovely displays of the aurora. There is a very real impact on our technology too.
Euclid UKRemember that lovely aurora last week? Well...um...this is what Euclid saw... 😱 🧵
The Goddard Space Flight Center has played a central role in America’s success in space exploration. It’s shocking to see what is now happening to it edition.cnn.com/2025/11/04/s...
NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear | CNNBuildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against the concerns.edition.cnn.com