Peter T Gallagher

At some point we need to have a discussion about the ethics of participation in press releases as scientists. From today’s K2-18b saga, Nikku Madhusudhan in the press release says ‘The signal came through loud and clear’ (1/n)

Today, we’re launching ‘Strategy 2040’, laying out ESA’s future activities and priorities, with a clear and ambitious vision to cement Europe’s leadership in space. #Strategy2040 will evolve and grow over the years ahead.

Read more 👉 esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/corpora...

Great day at DIAS Dunsink Observatory talking future space missions … and checking out sunspots with the historic Grubb Refractor. Not a bad way to spend my birthday.

First images from the Square Kilometre Array Low Frequency (SKA-Low)!

Taken with only 1,024 of the planned 131,072 antennas, and it's already looking good :)

#RadioAstronomy

Congratulations on this huge achievement, Craig. Can’t wait to see the data!

Spotted this rolled up on a shelf in Birr Castle today: “Observations of the radiation of heat from the Moon Dec 1868 - Apr 1869”.

The 4th Earl made a 3 foot telescope and thermopile to measure lunar heat. Pretty amazing.

Published in Proc of Royal Society 1869! www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1...

Understanding More About the Sun & The Science of Risk | Newstalk Guests:Dr Laura Hayes, Solar Physicist.Don Ross, Professor of Philosophy and Behavioural Econom...

I had a great time chatting on #Futureproof with @jonathanmccrea.bsky.social on @newstalkfm.bsky.social this weekend, talking about @esascience.esa.int #SolarOrbiter and how we're uncovering new insights about our Sun! ☀️🛰️

🔗 www.newstalk.com/podcasts/fut...

Solar Orbiter ready for close encounter with Venus The European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to guide the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with Venus so far.Today’s flyby will be the first to significantly ‘tilt’ the spac...

Solar Orbiter is getting ready for a close encounter with #Venus.

Today’s flyby will be the first to significantly ‘tilt’ the spacecraft’s orbit and allow it to see the #Sun’s polar regions, which cannot be seen from Earth.

Get the details 👉 www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

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Professor A - Astrophysics or Cosmology - Maynooth, Ireland job with MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY | 387317 In line with the objectives of the Higher Education Authority SALI Call 2020, applications from highly qualified female candidates ...

Astro job opportunity: Professorship in Astrophysics or Cosmology at Maynooth University: www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

#OTD 10 February 2020, @esascience.esa.int’s Sun-exploring #SolarOrbiter spacecraft was launched on a US Atlas V 411 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

www.esa.int/Science_Expl... (pics: @esa.int and @ulalaunch.bsky.social)

Spotted some apt graffiti by Broombridge this morning while cycling along the Royal Canal to Dunsink - right at the spot where Hamilton first wrote it down:

i² = j² = k² = ijk = -1

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The partnership will see Van Morrison provide two students with fully-funded scholarships to assist in their ambitions to become professional musicians.
http://jrnl.ie/6614940

Big news! We’ve just launched some new accounts 🎉

Give them a follow:
🔭 @esascience.esa.int
🧑‍🚀 @esaexploration.esa.int
🚀 @esatransport.esa.int
🌍 @esaearth.esa.int
📡 @esaoperations.esa.int
⚙️ @esatechnology.esa.int
🛰️ @esaconnectivity.esa.int

Stay tuned for exciting things ahead! 💙✨

Three Square Kilometre Array Commissioning Scientist jobs available to work at the SKA-Low Science Operations Centre in Perth, Western Australia.

recruitment.skao.int/vacancy/skal...

Deadline February 23rd. Contact George Heald (@georgeheald.bsky.social) for more information.

#RadioAstronomy

Change in Paris air quality between 2007 and 2023 using visuals

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people.

Good trade.

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is putting on quite a show over the last few days in the @esa.int SOHO/LASCO coronagraph images, as it passed through the closest point of its orbit at 0.093 au. This comet's orbit is strongly inclined to the plane of the planets. 👇 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2024_...

Blinking radio pulses from space hint at a cosmic object that ‘shouldn’t exist’ The slowest ‘cosmic lighthouse’ ever found challenges our understanding of how neutron stars work.

Hot off the press!

One of my students, Yu Wing (Joshua) Lee, has discovered a new radio transient (along with @manishacaleb.bsky.social).

Read more about "The Stellar Object That’s Too Slow to Shine" in their Conversation article:
theconversation.com/blinking-rad...

#RadioAstronomy

Good night … from Dunsink Observatory

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Gooood morning!

As many have pointed out, the LASCO images on the SOHO website are saturated. So this is the result of my own algo for processing them.

And I will echo my sentiments from yesterday: This. Comet. Is. RIDICULOUS! 🤩😍 ☄️🔭☀️

Good luck with launch preps, Craig. Can’t wait to see the data!

Many congratulations for Professor Jackman and grateful for her expert advice and work with @esa!

Rockin’ the RAS 🤘

Congrats Joe!

EUV images of the Sun from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory are back on SolarMonitor! solmon.dias.ie/fulldisk?dat...

Image of the Moon, on a background of the blackness of space, and foreground at right of Earth's atmosphere in shades of blue, taken by ESA astronaut André Kuipers from the ISS in 2012.

Hello @bsky.app, here's to looking into more #bluesky and beyond... 😉

Vape safety and testing big Irish heads: What to expect at this year's Young Scientist A total of 550 projects were selected to compete in this year’s exhibition.

Thousands of students have arrived at the RDS for the BT Young Scientist & Technology exhibition.

Ahead of the event opening to the public, The Journal spoke to one student who wanted to find out if there is any truth to someone having a “big Irish head”.

jrnl.ie/6587485

Stay ahead of the storm: understand the fundamentals of space weather with ESA

Hey University students, want to learn more about #SpaceWeather 🚀☔? You're still in time to apply for #ESA's Space Weather Training Course in Belgium. Details found here: www.esa.int/Education/ES...

Our recent work has just been published in A&A! We developed a retrieval framework for the large-scale magnetic fields of objects emitting radio bursts driven by the electron cyclotron maser (ECM) instability. We applied it to the brown dwarf J0623, and found that it has a large magnetic obliquity!