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
We're delighted to say that the RAS will be featured in the next episode of the BBC's The Sky at Night. 🪐🔭
Our new President Professor @jim-wild.bsky.social was interviewed for 'Space Weather: The Perfect Storm', which will air on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer at 10pm on Monday 8 June. ☀️☄️
Prof Jim Wild
Royal Astronomical Society
We're delighted to say that the RAS will be featured in the next episode of the BBC's The Sky at Night. 🪐🔭
Our new President Professor @jim-wild.bsky.social was interviewed for 'Space Weather: The Perfect Storm', which will air on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer at 10pm on Monday 8 June. ☀️☄️
Royal Astronomical Society
Published in #MNRAS: "Energy transfer in the solar wind-Mars interaction: the contributions of different electric field terms", Wang et al. This is Fig. 1: please visit academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... to read the paper. @royalastrosoc.bsky.social @academic.oup.com
Astronomers have found some of the strongest evidence yet that stars can swallow their own planets. 💫🪐🍴
A new study, published in Monthly Notices of the Astronomical Society, supports the long-held belief that young stars are capable of 'eating' nearby worlds as planetary systems form.
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We're delighted to announce the winners of our prizes for the best PhD theses completed in the UK in 2025. 🎉🏆️
🪐 Michael Penston Prize - Dr Thomas Baycroft
🌍️ Keith Runcorn Prize - Dr Hannah Sanderson
🔭 Patricia Tomkins Prize - Dr Justin Tabbett
Read more at: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
RAS Journals
Royal Astronomical Society
Researchers from Keele University and the University of Exeter studied thousands of stars and found evidence that six different red dwarfs – the smallest, coolest, and most common type of star in the universe – had engulfed Earth-like rocky planets.
Read more 👉️ ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
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...
Royal Astronomical Society
Our Deputy Executive Director @robertmassey.bsky.social is giving a talk at @sussex.ac.uk next week about the growing problem of satellite constellations. 🛰️
Interested in going along to the free event?
📛 'A Cluttered and Noisy Sky?'
📅 10 June
⏰️ 6-7pm
🎟️ & ℹ️ student.sussex.ac.uk/events/detai...
Royal Astronomical Society
The latest Editor’s Choice in Astronomy & Geophysics, the members' magazine of the @rasjournals.bsky.social, highlights exciting new discoveries and the pressures facing early-career researchers.
Curious to learn more? Read the issue: oxford.ly/3PYHc7p
