Annette Lee

I am a Liskeard Town Councillor🌹, fan of @GeorgeMichael. Secretary/Coach/Player for @CornwallPFC previous player of @cheltswallstars ⚽️

[Black Hole @konstructivizm]

A radio pulse from another world just arrived — and it is not a greeting.

Sixty-four light-years away, in the glare of the young star Beta Pictoris, a gas giant about ten times the mass of Jupiter is broadcasting. Astronomers using South Africa’s MeerKAT array have isolated the signal to the planet itself: Beta Pictoris b. For the first time, a radio source beyond the Solar System has been pinned to a single exoplanet rather than its star.

The temptation to hear a message is understandable. The reality is stranger, and more useful. The bursts are short, repeating, and fiercely circularly polarized — radio waves that corkscrew through space between 0.85 and 3.5 GHz. That is the fingerprint of an electron cyclotron maser: electrons racing along magnetic field lines and dumping energy as radio light. In other words, an aurora. Not the pale curtains of Earth, but a storm on a world whose magnetic field is at least 1.25 kilogauss — thousands of times stronger than Earth’s surface field.

Beta Pictoris b orbits about 10 astronomical units from its star and takes roughly 24 years to complete a lap. It spins in eight to nine hours. That combination — a young, massive planet, a dynamo-powered magnetosphere, and a stellar wind slamming into it — can drive auroras of almost cartoonish power. The polarization even flips handedness from one observing run to the next, as expected when different magnetic poles and viewing angles rotate into view.

So no civilization. Something better for science: the first direct measurement of an exoplanet’s magnetic field. Magnetic fields decide how atmospheres leak into space, how planets shed heat, and whether a world can hold onto the chemistry of life. Jupiter already shouts in radio; now a planet around another star has joined the chorus.

The next move is obvious. Point the same technique at other giant worlds and listen for the aurora’s scream. The galaxy just got a new way to take a planet’s pulse.

[Annette Lee @NETTYLJ]

@samsmith Oh wow i absolutely love your new album, this is the Sam Smith I love! 💜✝️✨

[Cornwall Powerchair Football Club @CornwallPFC]

We would like to wish all our players, coaches, volunteers, families and sponsors a very Happy Easter Sunday 🐣
#CornwallFA #PowerchairFootball #HappyEasterSunday #cornwallpfc

[ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch]

ANCIENT WELSH BOOK REVEALS THAT KING ARTHUR MAY HAVE BEEN REGARDED AS THE LAST ROMAN EMPEROR -

In the earliest historical references to King Arthur, he is often associated with two serpents. His mentor Merlin finds two serpents beneath the Welsh fort of Dinas Emrys. Excalibur is described as having a design of two serpents on its hilt. The Mabinogion refers to a twin-serpent amulet that protects Arthurian Britain. Arthur’s father, Uther, has two golden dragon figures crafted at his capital of Winchester, earning him the title "Pendragon". Why serpents?

Just before the Romans finally left Britain in the 400s, the Notitia Dignitatum, a register of Roman units and their emblems, records that the crossed serpents were the insignia of a Roman army unit, the Seguntienses, based in North Wales. As this was precisely the area where Dinas Emrys is situated, and where the oldest versions of the dual-serpent motif appear, it is possible that when the rest of the Roman army left to defend Rome, some of the Seguntienses remained behind, rather than continue to fight for a collapsing empire whose capital had fallen to the Visigoths.

One of the earliest references to King Arthur, in the work of the early ninth-century monk Nennius, describes him as a warrior who united the feuding British tribes to repel an invasion by Germanic Anglo-Saxons around the year 500. He reveals that Arthur was ultimately a successor to Ambrosius Aurelius, a high-ranking Roman officer with whom he associates the two serpents of Dinas Emrys. Ambrosius, it seems, may have been the leader of the Seguntienses contingent that remained in Britain. Another British monk, Gildas, who wrote within living memory of the events, relates how Ambrosius defeated the Anglo-Saxons against the odds, perhaps by deploying this trained and equipped Roman force.

The medieval Arthurian romances relate how Ambrosius established his capital at Amesbury (named after him) in southern England, and that Uther succeeded him there and moved the capital to nearby Winchester, where he adopted the twin golden dragons as his standard and took the name Pendragon.

This series of events may well have been what historically occurred before King Arthur was proclaimed king. It was with the power of the last of the Romans that Arthur’s kingdom was established. Indeed, it might explain why in the medieval Black Book of Carmarthen, now in the National Library of Wales, in Aberystwyth, where I was last weekend, Arthur is described as Emperor. Perhaps the last Roman legion proclaimed him emperor when the Western Roman Empire finally collapsed in mainland Europe in the late fifth century.

📷 : Black Book of Carmarthen (National Library of Wales)

© Graham Phillips

#archaeohistories

[Femi @Femi_sorry]

The Labour Party died today.

Andy Burnham has been blocked from standing as an MP.

So when Keir Starmer goes, he'll be replaced by more of the same. So they will lose the next election.

So our choices are Reform UK or the Greens. That's it.

[Annette Lee @NETTYLJ]

@cjmcgoogan @CornwallPFC Hello Cara, Helen was one of my best friends, we went to school together, and members of the Tavy MD group. Helen introduced my daughter and I to Powerchair Football.

[John McDonnell @johnmcdonnellMP]

Message to Keir: Do not underestimate the depth of anger people will feel about this disgusting decision. If you think it strengthens you I tell you it will simply hasten your demise. You could have shown magnanimous leadership but instead it’s cowardice. https://t.co/02Y8COpddM

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Today, England's water companies received their worst pollution ratings since records began.

Rising bills. Soaring profits. Sewage in our rivers and seas.

Enough is enough. Bring water back into public ownership, now.

[WBA Powerchair @WBAPowerchair]

A difficult weekend for our WBA Throstles!

Despite a challenging weekend they did come away with some points and will be hoping to build on the positives next time round.

Keep going guys 💛💙

@WBAFoundation | #WBA | #PowerchairFootball

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

I want people to be proud of where they live.

Today we've announced £1.5 billion of funding to empower communities to build thriving high streets, parks, youth clubs, libraries, and cultural venues.

Supporting local growth.

Breathing life back into your neighbourhood.

[Cornwall Powerchair Football Club @CornwallPFC]

We had another great training session yesterday, we continued to practice match related drills. The team is making progress. ⚽️😊 #CornwallPFC #PowerchairFootball #cornwallfa

[The WFA @The_WFA]

This time next week! 🤩⏳

📸: @ASJPhotography

#PowerchairFootball

[Cornwall Powerchair Football Club @CornwallPFC]

Congratulations @1999AmyLJ for joining premiership side @WBAPowerchair Throstles 👏

#PowerchairFootball | #WBA | @WBAFoundation | @WBA

[Annette Lee @NETTYLJ]

@CornwallPFC @1999AmyLJ @WBAPowerchair @WBAFoundation @WBA Congratulations @1999AmyLJ ⚽️😊proud mum, enjoy your new season with @WBA_PFC Throstles xx 💙🤍⚽️

[Anna Gelderd MP @annagelderd]

Feeling immensely proud to be #SouthEastCornwall’s first Labour MP and to have taken the oath in Cornish today. Cornwall now has 4 Labour MPs, together we will fight to bring change to our communities🌹

[Anna Gelderd MP @annagelderd]

The Cornish Labour 4 are on their way to Parliament! 🌹

@JayneKirkham4 @Perran4CRH @NoahLaw4StAN and I are already getting stuck in on how we make the case on housing, sewage, transport, devolution, NHS, green jobs and so much more.

Duchy first, party second.

[Anna Gelderd MP @annagelderd]

We have made history in South East Cornwall with our first ever Labour MP here. Thank you to the people who voted, and I want to give thanks to Sheryll Murray for her 14 years of service.

Whether you live in a town or a village, make a living on a farm, from the sea or in an office, I will represent each of you and be the fresh start we all need.

The hard work starts now.

[Anna Gelderd MP @annagelderd]

Less than 3 hours to go until polling stations close at 10pm.

Every single vote will make a difference here in South East Cornwall where things are neck and neck with the Conservatives.

If you want to see change, vote Labour today 🌹