NASA's ESCAPADE mission is now studying Earth's magnetotail. PI Robert Lillis describes this first ever visit to a distant region of the magnetosphere.
Read more 👇
ssl.berkeley.edu/escapade-mag...
https://www.ft.com/content/a7bffadc-0787-48a6-a3d6-0a87ce1f3fdf
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An interesting detail from @financialtimes.com . I was baffled by some strange movements of the Roscosmos jet into Rwanda Feb 21, and wondered if there was a pending announcement about a treaty with the new Rwanda Space Agency. Seems it was just a taxi for hire?
My broadcast colleagues may like to know that Alice Everett was one of the founders (a Fellow) of @rtsmedia.bsky.social . She worked with John Logie Baird, and Mary Brück believed Everett may well have been present in Soho on that historic day 100 years ago when Baird demonstrated television.
https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/1994IrAJ...21..281B
The Dunsink astronomer - and a tireless chronicler of Irish women in science - Mary Brück wrote an extended profile of Annie Maunder (and another Irish woman, Alice Everett) for the Irish Astronomical Journal. Link in ALT. @diasdunsink.bsky.social
You ask: why is Bluesky the best social platform? This is why.
A cameo role tonight for the Artemis astronauts (at the speech, not the protest rally!). I really hope Jeremy Hansen won't be embarassed by any crude mentions of Canada 🍁
A rare vagrant spotted in the skies over Casement Aerodrome, Baldonnel, this afternoon. Blown off-course by a particularly strong so'easter? 😉 @geolsurvie.bsky.social @birdwatchireland.bsky.social
www.bas.ac.uk/polar-operat...
No MSS 😉
JBS Europe has operations across Ireland, North and South. Its Chairman is Irishman Jerry O'Callaghan.
The V-3 camera is even better! It transitioned from a fountain to more explosive a couple of hours ago when I think the throat of the vent started to collapse. Shades of Io and Venus. Whatever we think, we are not Masters of this Universe 😉
Insane stuff, man! It transitioned from a fountain to more explosive a couple of hours ago when I think the throat of the vent started to collapse. Shades of Io and Venus. Whatever we think, we are not Masters of this Universe 😉
@soph-astro.esa.int has posted in the other place, but not in this quiet place. So I am sharing it because it is important on many levels. (She appears to be on the beach right beside the Astronauts' beloved Beach House, next to LC-40)
Claudie Haigneré est une figure emblématique de la promotion des femmes dans les STIM (STEM in Ireland). Brava !
"The Irish Rocket". My gob has been well and truly smacked! TIL that Round Towers HAD ABSOLUTELY NOTHING TO DO WITH ESCAPING THE VIKINGS 😳. Most weren't even built at the time of the Battle of Clontarf.
He needs to publish! Then, LRO would probably task it.
https://quickmap.lroc.im-ldi.com/layers?prjExtent=-1937003.7687137%2C237801.1996261%2C-1935315.5545585%2C238614.093741&activeDrawingLayer=%40%40user-defined&stack=64%2C3921%2C521%2C3113%2C517&isCesiumDynamicEnabled=true&trailType=0&showShadows=true&shadowsType=all&proj=16&defs=N4IgrATAjCBcoHsAOBDAxgSwC4E84AYA6AdgF8AaEAZiiirkVU1wMKkguoE5oGQAnFADsA5gFM4AbXzkiYALqVBosQAUUAGzFYsE2CADuaBBoCuWfCEoA3DAGcMAIy1wAZprtjSpIA&features=29.159%2C-84.7715%7C296.14438%2C7.86159%7C296.16621%2C7.85012
Lander (top 🔵) and braking stage locations according to Vitaliy Egorov, who led the successful crowd-sourced search for Mars-3. He describes the current effort on a Russian funding page. planeta.ru/campaigns/na...
He hasn't yet published this latest work?
@philstooke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Thanks Marco: I finally found the decay_msg on Space-Track! Much sooner than I expected.
https://heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=67673&&showall=t
https://heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=67673&&showall=t
Elon Musk's latest errant rocket stage will pass directly over Dublin TWICE on Thursday. Overall, it crosses Ireland every few days (Munster and Connaught on Saturday and on Feb 11). It will NOT crash that soon. The last out-of-control rocket missed Dublin by seconds, landing in Poland @esa.int
Keep me posted 😉
The Irish Gov has 150 followers on this site. No wonder people inhabit the M"sk world @gov.ie
@esa.int All of European Space Situational Awareness (SSA) is on the other site. So much for European independence!
Where? Last one hit Poland, but missed Dublin by seconds?
Spectacular! But "KGB spy satellite spontaneously explodes"? Colour me sceptical 🤨 That sucker was cooking-off for several minutes after the initial event.
Inscription Richard Carrington Esq ,OF SYDENHAM HILL, KENT ESTHER FANNY ONLY DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE BORN 1838, SEPT. 28 DIED 1851, DEC. 29 THE LORD GAVE AND THE LORD HATH TAKEN AWAY BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD RICHARD CARRINGTON BORN 1796 MAY 10 DIED 1858 JULY 18 THE MEMORY OF THE JUST IS BLESSED ALSO OF ROSA HELEN CARRINGTON (THE BELOVED WIFE OF RICHARD CHRISTOPHER CARRINGTON F.C.P.S. F.R.A.S. F.R.S.) BORN 1845, MAY 21 DIED 1875, NOV. 17 SIC ITUR AD ASTRAS RICHARD CHRISTOPHER CARRINGTON DIED 27 NOV. 1875 AGED 49 YEARS ESTHER CLARKE WIDOW OF RICHARD CARRINGTON ESQUIRE DIED 25 JUNE 1877 AGED 81 YEARS DAVID CARRINGTON BORN 28 UNE 1829, DIED 15 JUNE 1902 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/149956251/richard-christopher-carrington
Clark finds comfort in a thought: during all the heartbreak, "the academic heir to Carrington was already quietly at work, collecting a mountain of his own sunspot data that he would eventually sculpt into a scientific edifice that no one could demolish"
"His heir was Edward Walter Maunder"
“Sic Itur Ad Astra”
Gazing today for the first time into this young man's eyes, it is impossible to fathom the tragedies that were to engulf his final years.
@royalastrosoc.bsky.social
Clarke finds comfort in this thought: during all that heartbreak, "the academic heir to Carrington was already quietly at work, collecting a mountain of his own sunspot data that he would eventually sculpt into a scientific edifice that no one could demolish"
"His heir was Edward Walter Maunder"
