Simon Hodgkin

Enthusiastic about wide-field optical and near-infrared time domain astronomy. Working on Gaia, Gaia Alerts, PLATO

[Simon Hodgkin @SpacemanSimon]

@ESAGaia Great detective work by @AstroHinkle, @BenShappee and team! @gaia_alerts keeps on discovering

[IAC Astrofísica @IAC_Astrofisica]

🔭 The IAC leads the first results from #NIRPS, the new infrared planet hunter.
🌍 Detects Earth-like planets in IR for the first time with <1 m/s precision.
✅ Confirms a planet with 1/3 Earth's mass orbiting Proxima Centauri.
📄 5 papers in A&A
🔗 https://t.co/BwwWIWClAb

[Simon Hodgkin @SpacemanSimon]

@ESAGaia Great detective work by @AstroHinkle, @BenShappee and team! @gaia_alerts keeps on discovering

[Simon Hodgkin @SpacemanSimon]

Wow! “a decommissioning strategy that involved systematically picking apart and disabling the layers of redundancy that have safeguarded Gaia for so long, because we don’t want it to reactivate in the future and begin transmitting again if its solar panels find sunlight”

[ESA Operations @esaoperations]

Farewell, Gaia! Spacecraft Operations Manager Peter Collins confirms that Gaia has fallen silent, having been successfully passivated and switched off after more than a decade spent mapping the cosmos.

https://t.co/6V7vHyTpzX

[Royal Astronomical Society @RoyalAstroSoc]

Are you in central London tomorrow and keen to explore the wonders of the night sky? 🌃

If so, why not come along to Art After Dark, a free late-night event which will blend surreal public art with the beauty of space science... 🎨🔦

⤵️

[Simon Hodgkin @SpacemanSimon]

Interesting thread

[Karen Hao @_KarenHao]

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

[Astro Alexandra 🪐 Space Communicator @astro_alexandra]

New JWST image shows five duplicate images of galaxies 🤨 #space #nasa #astronomy #science

[Michael Perryman @mac_perryman]

Gaia essay 191. Extinction. Extinction is important in determining stellar parameters from spectral modelling, and central in describing the distribution of gas and dust in the solar neighbourhood. I will summarise what has been measured with Gaia so far
https://t.co/KyMtvxs8Ui

[European Space Agency @esa]

Game on! 👾🕹️

We are are at Gamescom, the world's biggest video game event. Come find us at our stand in the careers area of Koelnmesse in Hall 10.2 where you can:

👾🕹️Try our VR experience that we use to train our astronauts.
📸 👨‍🚀 Take a photo in a @StarfieldGame suit.
🎮 Try out our Lunar Horizons mission on @FortniteGame.
🚀 Find out how you can launch your career with us.

🔗 https://t.co/bTWIH382Cg

#ESAxGamescom #gamescom2024

[ESA Gaia @ESAGaia]

While training undergraduates, a special sample of #GaiaData was obtained... and what, to their wondering eyes, appeared? An interesting duo: an ultracool subdwarf with a white dwarf companion, and they belong to the halo! Story: https://t.co/2d9hwgywbL https://t.co/aANwr439OX

[Dr David Boyce @DrDavidBoyce]

This is Buddo. The earliest depiction of a human figure found anywhere in the British Isles. It is made out of whale bone and can be found in the Stromness Museum on Orkney. At 4,900 years old it comes from a time when mammoths still walked the Earth 🦣 . #neolithic #Orkney

[Landolt Mission @LandoltMission]

We're sending a star into space! @GeorgeMasonU is the home of the $19.5 million Landolt Space Mission that will put an artificial "star" in orbit around the Earth. Read more: https://t.co/PQptzPwGur

[Stefan Jordan @StefanJordanARI]

At 9:00 am, our #GaiaMission consortium will announce an exciting discovery we made while validating the Gaia data! Check out ESA's #GaiaMission page: https://t.co/5rKOCZk78I with explanations, graphics and videos!.

[European Space Agency @esa]

ESA has helped @SamsungDE turn exciting information about planets in our Solar System into fact-filled new watch faces for #GalaxyTime...
https://t.co/8nziPzVoMw

[Great Heath @greatheathacad]

We are so excited to be welcoming Prof Helen Mason @helen_hm11 & Dr Matt Bothwell @Astronomy_Matt to Great Heath tomorrow. Y5 will be taking part in a #SunSpaceArt workshop, focusing on astronomy and the sun. #greatlearning

[Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge @cambridge_astro]

The Inaugural Lecture of Hiranya Peiris, Professor of Astrophysics (1909), 'Decoding the Cosmos', is available to watch on YouTube!

https://t.co/BMaAiPTmQv

[Athena X-ray observatory @AthenaXobs]

Congratulations to the @eROSITA_SRG consortium on the first #eROSITA #AllSkySurvey data release 👇🏽

[Copernicus EU @CopernicusEU]

On 15 January, #Copernicus #Sentinel3 🇪🇺🛰️ captured this beautiful image of the British Isles

⬇️#Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 was covered with snow, and there were only few clouds above most of our friends and followers in/around the UK 🇬🇧 and Ireland 🇮🇪

[OCA @ObsCoteAzur]

#nomination Félicitations à François Mignard, élu membre de la prestigieuse @AcadSciences !👏
📌 Lire le communiqué officiel : https://t.co/NlT5cIAOF2

[ESA Science @esascience]

🥳🎂 @ESAGaia celebrates its tenth anniversary since launch🚀
👇Let’s look at the #GaiaMission in numbers