Congrats to the #DARTMission team for their contributions to #PlanetaryDefense!
Today's issue of @nature features DART on the cover & includes scientific papers on what the team has learned since DART's impact with its target #asteroid last September: https://t.co/gNDlJMAYxr
We're 2 months away form Asteroids, Comets, Meteors and there is still no news about how much the registration fee is or how to register for the meeting. All we're hearing when reaching out to the SOC/LOC is that this is something that @usraedu@LPItoday have to communicate
1/ 📢 First results in from ESO telescopes on the aftermath of #DART’s asteroid impact! https://t.co/FVLGfzwIJL
The collision was a test of #PlanetaryDefence, but also an opportunity to learn more about the asteroid’s composition. Read on👇
📷 ESO/Opitom et al.
The 2023 Annie Maunder Medal is awarded to @BlackInAstro, a grassroots organisation and community that was founded after the police violence upon Black people within the USA. It focuses on inspiring, developing, and enriching Black space scientists.
All you need to know about applying for Astro PhD studentships in Edinburgh! 🏴🔭🌌🛰🪐https://t.co/wSzAY2MtoW
I see a lot of PhD application pain on this app, so I will just point out that:
1. there is no fee to apply
2. the application form is 1-page long
deadline 8 January
I've been told I should tweet about my first-authored paper coming out but **not in a boring way** so here goes:
🔥A TARGETED SEARCH FOR MAIN BELT COMETS🔥
now on arXiv: https://t.co/t5Fwsb3q0C
1/4
New round of 60 Chancellor's Fellowship tenure track positions at the University of Edinburgh. These have high success rates for tenure in the School of Physics. Three broad themes. Details below.
https://t.co/b78oKE8E3V
From today's @NASA briefing about #DARTMission, a nice demonstration of how we measure the effect of the impact using telescopes - including @PhysAstroEd's contribution through observations at the @ESO 1.54m Danish telescope (part of @H2020Neorocks!)
The Call for Applications for the “Astronomy in Africa” MSc Scholarships is now open and can be found on https://t.co/KeGgDAHa0r
Students from any African country are eligible to apply for these scholarships. The deadline for scholarship applications is 7 October 2022. ✨🌍
Through funding from the @royalsociety, we were able to fund an intern to help us with the communications and outreach parts of the #DARTOPTiK project. We visited the local school in Ileret, and were able to get the kids to come and look through the telescope at TBI 🔭
1/ If you've read our latest #ESOblog you’ll know that our VLT has watched the aftermath of the #DARTmission impact:
🔗 https://t.co/h0iXggbs9u
Here's a sneak-peek of the results. First, an image taken with the MUSE instrument. Look at those plumes!
📷 @ESO /Opitom et al.
So happy to have spotted the #DARTMission impact flash and ejecta cloud with our portable telescope in Ileret, Northern Kenya. We don’t yet know what the future holds for optical astronomy in Kenya, but we can certainly say it started with a bang! @turkanabasin@TU_Kenya
It's a beautiful day for the Edinburgh Doors Open Days @RoyalObs! We can't wait to show you some of the amazing science that is happening here 🌟 #ROEOpen
If you are in Edinburgh and want to learn more about the #DARTMission and @DartOptik (and all the other exciting research going on at the @RoyalObs), this weekend we are open to the public. Come along!
See that plume? All four telescopes of @ESO 's VLT will be looking towards the DART impact, to study the plume and obtain clues to the early Solar System ☄️🛰️ I've talked with @CyrielleOpitom and her colleagues who will lead the observations✨ https://t.co/Lb8NswAaG5
Many thanks to @DartOptik for giving the astrophysics postgrads, @juotca254 and Vincent of @TU_Kenya, the opportunity to be part of the mission aimed at testing a method of planetary defense against near-Earth objects.
Looking for some science fun? 👀🔭☄️
Then sign up to the @RoyalObs@PhysAstroEd#DoorsOpenDays events.
📅 Sat 24 & Sun 25 September 2022.
🎫Entry is free, but book a time slot in advance to guarantee entry on the day: https://t.co/E043lcPL2c
#ROEOpen