Reposting for the Sunday morning reading crowd with a free-to-read link that isn't behind the Nature paywall! 🔭⚛️🧪👩🔬
📖: rdcu.be/floXQ
What was the "Carrington Event" and who was the astronomer it was named-after? Catch me talking to @chrislintott.bsky.social on this month's episode of the BBC's The Sky at Night: 10pm, Monday 8 June on BBC Four.
#spaceweather #heliophysics #astronomy
So the big Brian tweeted this out to his 3M followers over on the other site - and even though it is a cesspit of doom over there - the comments are so supportive. A lot of love out there for physics and astronomy (albeit from a biased subset of Brian's lovely mega-fans) 🤩🔭⚛️
Don't forget to tune into tonight's episode of the BBC's The Sky at Night. 🪐🔭
'Space Weather: The Perfect Storm' airs on BBC Four and the iPlayer at 10pm and features our new President Professor @jim-wild.bsky.social talking to @chrislintott.bsky.social.
👉️ www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans
Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans
Prof Jim Wild
This is a wild one: an “orbital airbag” to shield Earth from solar storms 😮
Basically a giant magnetic structure in space to deflect charged particles before they hit Earth. Bold, expensive and very unorthodox! Includes interesting comments from some serious people.
www.science.org/content/arti...
🚨A must-read summary of the current STFC funding crisis facing U.K. astronomy by @astroroyalscot.bsky.social
Memories of the Summer of 1976 endure in the British memory, 35.9 °C, parched fields, standpipes in the streets.
50 years on and, in the last decade alone, temperatures above 36 °C have been recorded on six days in the UK and the UK’s highest record temperature now stands at 40.3 °C.
📣 Calling UK particle physics, astronomy and nuclear (PPAN) researchers. The @royalastrosoc.bsky.social is co-hosting an event for MPs on 15 June as part of our campaign to reverse catastrophic funding cuts. Write to your MP and encourage them to attend!
Full details at ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
