Mark Thompson

Mark Thompson

@astronomer-mark.bsky.social

Broadcaster & Author exploring STEM through TV, radio, theatre & books | BBC Stargazing Live | Hon Doc from @UEA | Fascinated by sleep | office@josarsby.com

355 Followers 236 Following 36 Posts Joined Nov 2024
11 months ago
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Eclipse is on.. #SolarEclipse2025 #UK #Partial

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11 months ago

Lovely montage Pete

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11 months ago

Great shot Andy

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1 year ago
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The Greatest Astronomical Discoveries | Norwich Science Festival

Hey all, I’m giving a lecture at the Norwich Science Festifal on Sat 22 Feb ‘The Greatest Astronomical Discoveries’ norwichsciencefestival.co.uk/whats-on/the...

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1 year ago
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A cheeky go at the Megaminx on the train.. #micdrop

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1 year ago
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Wet and cold but happy to be on way to #Cardiff to talk to Nikki Bedi and Huw Stephen’s on BBC Radio 4’s Saturday Live prog; 9am -10am. Pls do join us

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1 year ago
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BIG NEWS space fans & business buffs; guests are being booked in for recording of the pilot series of #CosmicCommerce and recording starts next week.. woohoooo

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1 year ago
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Stunning Moon halo this eve, Jupiter just to left

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1 year ago

Humans can multi-tasking! True or false? What d’ya think?

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1 year ago

World Sleep Day takes place 14 March.. anyone got any sleep awareness events planned?

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1 year ago

Hey Steve :)

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1 year ago
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Moonrise

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1 year ago
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The magic of live TV… impromptu piece about Solar Parker Probe while visiting family away from home with none of my kit!! #AlwaysBeReady #Improv

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1 year ago
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Funky 10sec exposure with phone of my garden at night and even Lexi stood still long enough to be sharp!! #woof

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1 year ago
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New podcast for 2025., quite excited about this cosmiccommerce.libsyn.com

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1 year ago
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Day2 question for the #SpaceAdventQuiz was from @dallascampbell #2021Throwback

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1 year ago
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Wow back in 2021 I ran the #Reach4AStar celeb advent calendar quiz.. will re run this Dec. First up for Day1 was a question from @reallorraine #SpaceAdventQuiz

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1 year ago

Yeah that’s them. There were even illustrations in some as no photos of some objects existed back then

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1 year ago
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Beautiful sky this eve… handheld pic using mobile phone. Not half bad this!! Can you spot Jupiter ?

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1 year ago

I have a couple of space ‘tea card’ books!

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1 year ago
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That bright red ‘star’ to right of Moon this eve is Mars. They look close but Mars is 103 million km further away and its light takes 7 mins longer to get to us #UK #PleaseShare #GetStargazing

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1 year ago

A few years ago I created a festive space advent calendar quiz with questions from loads of my chums.. who fancies me re-running that again this year ?

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1 year ago

Back at ya

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1 year ago

Always worth tuning in to this ace podcast

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1 year ago

So it seems :)

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1 year ago

You have one tomorrow, I have one Friday in North Norfolk :)

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1 year ago
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Tonight's waning Moon. 80% lit and trying to burst through the clouds. If you have a clear sky you can see, to the left, the Gemini twins, Castor and Pollux #astronomy #astrophotography #MoonHour

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1 year ago

Nice image

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1 year ago

And hopefully the engagement will come back. It’s really died off on X of late

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1 year ago

Who else is new here ?

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