The forecasts for tonight look good for a possible repeat of last night’s spectacular #aurora . Get outside after 10.30pm, and look north.

I’m still smiling. This was our view of the Northern Lights over Oxford, UK 😍 I expected a glow on the horizon, not dancing ribbons overhead, with colours I could just see with my eye! If you missed it last night there’s a strong chance you’ll see them tonight #Auroraborealis

Visited Oxford, and needed a great book for my trip across the UK. Just had to finally grab a copy.
Dr Becky Smethurst

Imagine writing this.
Imagine publishing it.
Imagine being the woman in question, reading it.

Two clear nights in a row, so here is tonight’s look at Messier 106 with the Unistellar #eVscope 🔭.

But if you want to know why it’s a “seafood galaxy”, you’ll have to watch Dr Becky Smethurst’s Deep Sky Videos video! (youtu.be/8aWNe3eehmk)

Captured the breathtaking moment of the solar eclipse 🌞🌑✨ Nature's celestial ballet never ceases to amaze.
Images taken using AstroTech telescope and Sony a6700 camera to create a complete panoramic view.
#solareclipse #dallas #ASTRO

“Get yourself to an eclipse. It’s the best our planet offers.” - chrislintott

New Matplotlib markers just dropped — what a fantastic April fool’s paper.

NASA’s FY24/25 budget request will close down Chandra Observatory. This would be a devastating blow to astrophysics in the US. 24 years from launch, Chandra is still doing hugely impactful science, adding enormous value to JWST programs and vital in the era of time domain astronomy (1/)

To celebrate the release of chrislintott's Our Accidental Universe, we're giving away a Royal Museums Greenwich Membership and a 12-issue subscription to Sky at Night Magazine! Details here: bit.ly/3v5OBqT

Less than two weeks until the publication of 'Our Accidental Universe' - can't wait for you all to get your hands on this beautiful tome. Preorders are really important, so if you can grab a copy please do so now! waterstones.com/book/our-accid…

This’ll be a great astronomy lecture in London next week on pulsars. Details below if you fancy going 👇

Have you seen Dr Becky Smethurst's video about the mysterious object scientists discovered with the MeerKAT telescope (as a reminder, this is the story: mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressreleases/…)? 🤓

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Update: It’s official! Thanks to the International Astronomical Union, Venus’ quasi-moon is now forever known as Zoozve! 🥰

(Can we be forgiven for demoting Pluto now?)

Taylor Swift just announced 17 new tracks on her new album Tortured Ports Department

There are 17 Eras Tour dates between now & the release on 19th April

Coincidence? I think not! One new track as a surprise song on each tour night up to release?! Taylor Swift Taylor Nation

Some Dr Becky Smethurst memes.

I made a video about what version of the multiverse (quantum mechanics’ many worlds, or eternal inflation’s bubble universes) holds in the sci-fi show Rick & Morty. It’s fun and chock full of accessible physics 🤓 enjoy!

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Physics or astro undergrads: applications open to join us Department of Physics at University of Oxford for the summer. Including two SETI/machine learning projects with me & a galaxy one with Dr Becky Smethurst physics.ox.ac.uk/research/subde…

End on era for the little Ingenuity helicopter on Mars 😢🥺