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Thomas Cheney @thomascheney.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

meeting with my phd students is always the highlight of my day, often my week, and todays meeting with @astrobiologee.bsky.social is a prime example of that, a privillage and a pleasure to guide her development as a scholar

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

What looks like an alien starship visiting a small country estate in eighteenth-century Germany is in fact, *checks notes* a giant pomelo. So nothing to see here, #skystorians

A giant pomelo over a country estate. The image is part of a book about famous citrus fruits of Nuremberg (VD18 14760916).

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Georgia E. Brown @astrobiologee.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

A fantastic week at #COSPAR25 in Nicosia, Cyprus where I presented at my first international conference! An absolutely amazing experience. Thank you to everyone involved for making it such a fascinating and memorable week.

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Thomas Cheney @thomascheney.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

1st day for my new PhD students: Nicole Green and @astrologee.bsky.social We'll be working on a project entitled 'Beyond Metalaw: Extraterrestrial Life in the International Legal Order' where we will explore the challenges extraterrestrial life poses for the international legal order.

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Georgia E. Brown @astrobiologee.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Scafell Pike, Lake District. The tallest mountain in England. It is important to remember that whilst we search for habitable worlds out there, much of what we are looking for is right here on our beautiful Earth already. We shouldn’t take it for granted! Beautiful sights on a beautiful day!🌍🚀🪐

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KosmicKris @kosmickris.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

One of the great joys of my job is seeing brilliant new thinking. This is a fascinating piece by @astrologee.bsky.social

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Sean McMahon @seanhmcmahon.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Take a look at my group's new paper on distinguishing biological and non-biological tubules of iron-oxide, led by Melanie Podbielski. Yes, the title is a Star Trek reference...

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Georgia E. Brown @astrobiologee.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Happy to share my first ever published paper (as a contributor). The product of my placement year just over 2 years ago. Looking at fossilised organic/inorganic tubules on Mars. So honoured to have been part of this team. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Georgia E. Brown @astrobiologee.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

A video from a year ago, during my undergrad degree. Little did I know at the time I’d be doing a master’s, let alone a PhD in Space law, come October. Would recommend Bio w/Sci&Soc to any young scientist for the academic and personal development opportunities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvWA...

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Biology with Science and Society with Georgia | The University of Manchester

YouTube video by Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health UoM

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Mars and the Beehive from last night. 22 April 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

The Beehive star cluster at left of centre. Orange planet Mars above right of centre. Many faint star dots on a dark background.

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

An astonishing headline reporting on new observations from a team led to Nikku Madhusudhan claims they’ve found ‘hints of life’ on a planet orbiting a dwarf star some 124 light years away. What’s going on? (1/n) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... 🔭 🧪

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Promising hints of life found on distant planet K2-18b

Scientists find new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life.

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Thomas Cheney @thomascheney.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

really good thread, recently reread Dicks Biological Unniverse as Im writing a bid on the legal implications of finding ET and thought a lot the history if 'false detection' of extrasolar planets. Need to take the position of highly skeptical - risk seeing a version of the Martian Canals...

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Excellent letter in @thetls.bsky.social. A bit of perspective, pls!

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Georgia E. Brown @astrobiologee.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Was back in Edinburgh this week, attending a workshop about outer space from an ecological economics perspective! So interesting to discuss themes like sci-fi, space mining, settlement and ET with a fresh lens and with new people too! Also got to see the lovely @astr0mia.bsky.social too!!

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Georgia E. Brown @astrobiologee.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Received an offer this morning for my dream PhD!!!! Extraterrestrial life and space law combined. How exciting and mind blowing that this project even exists and the fact that I get to do it is even more exciting! Got to finish the master’s first but so excited for this next chapter!

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

“Space isn’t just a resource for us to use as much as we like. We actually have to think of what rights space has and what we are leaving for future generations.” - Dr Alice Gorman (me) Video by Powerhouse Museum and Investment NSW 🧪

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Alice Gorman - Space Archaeology

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Georgia E. Brown @astrobiologee.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

So lovely to come across a starter pack with my name on it among so many great researchers in Astrobiology. Don’t see packs pop up too often anymore but if you are interested in Astrobiology, I can recommend this pack!! 😌💫🔭

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Georgia E. Brown @astrobiologee.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

First clear night sky in Newcastle so long! Must have been two weeks or so that the clouds have covered the view. Perfect night for an astronomical society observation & lecture evening ✨

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Georgia E. Brown @astrobiologee.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Space inspires the world around us! After a weekend in Berlin, I can see some are more obvious than others. Berlin’s famous TV Tower is inspired by the Soviet’s Sputnik. A symbol of power from East Germany The Cosmonaut (Victor Ash) is an unmissable mural on a building in Kreuzberg.

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Matthew Cobb @matthewcobb.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Company that has shamelessly stolen most of the world’s culture to train its crappy AI now bleats that someone has done the same thing to them. Boo hoo.

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Georgia E. Brown @astrobiologee.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

I watched Interstellar again a couple nights ago. How exciting it is to be part of a field that is so inspiring and exciting. Easily one of the best movies ever made… 👩‍🚀 I’m so lucky to be part of the space world. ✨

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(Astro)Mia, MScR @astr0mia.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

#spacetech tuesday let’s learn about a super advanced and awesome piece of #NASA technology - one that might surprise you! 🧑‍🚀

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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 22/01/2025

These are just some rocks. But they're rocks on Mars. Photographed earlier today. And now on your phone.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

do you agree?

People standing on the surface of a rocky planet with another planet in the background and ships flying above it. There’s white text in the middle of the image reading: “Space is the perfect combination of beauty, danger, and being imperfectly perfect.”

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Georgia E. Brown @astrobiologee.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

non-space related but my weekend welcomed a new member to my family. Little Eli (like Elijah). So far, he loves to try and stand on my laptop, sleep and give everyone a big lick and a cuddle. 🫶 My arms and shoes are covered in bite marks but my heart feels very full!

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Six planets are visible in the sky all at once this month. How to see the planetary alignment. Nice guide from Sky at Night Magazine. 🔭 🧪 www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/planeta...

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Six planets are visible in the sky all at once this month. How to see the planetary alignment

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Kumar S @starryknightone.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Venus & Saturn conjunction earlier today 👇🏽 While they are two degrees or four Moon-widths apart from one another in our skies, in reality they are over a billion and a half kms apart Their true distance scale in the alt-txt

Venus, currently exhibiting a half-phase is about 93 million kms & inside of Earth’s orbit
Saturn, with its rings nearly edge-on is 1535 million kms in the far reaches of the Solar System

Venus, about 12,000 km in diameter is currently exhibiting a half-phase and is about 93 million kms, inside of Earth’s orbit

Saturn, about 120,000 kms in diameter is seen with its rings nearly edge-on currently. It is about 1535 million kms in the far reaches of the Solar System.

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Kirk Rudell @rudell.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

When your rocket explodes, or your poorly-engineered cars kill people, or you promise to tank the economy…it’s all fine (and even entertaining!) because, you claim, a thousand years from now “humanity will be better.”

Musk tweet about latest exploding rocket: “Success is uncertain, but entertainment is guaranteed!”

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and . . . then retreated back into their money . . . and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”

streaks of rapid unscheduled disassembly in the sky

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(Astro)Mia, MScR @astr0mia.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

let’s talk about the ZOO hypothesis 👀 this crazy #theory thinks about whether or not #aliens are already studying us 👽 what do you think?

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Georgia E. Brown @astrobiologee.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

I hosted some focus groups last year on Mars colonisation and made some space cakes to stay on theme! My friend bought the space tiramisu - I’ll never make a non-space tiramisu again 🤩✨🪐

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Paul Macklin @mathcancer.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Here are some of my better images of "Marsrise" -- right after the end of the #MarsOccultation. Happy to say I found capture settings that simultaneously worked for both Mars and Moon. No "cheating" and stacking them separately and then copy/pasting. Enjoy! Prints available later. 🧪🔭

Mars just emerging from the Moon - a few seconds later.

Mars just moments after rising from behind the Moon.

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Georgia E. Brown @astrobiologee.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Just completed my Christmas present of the ‘Tales of The Space Age’ Lego set!! Beautiful pieces of art. Nice little detail of the Ursa major on the pink one! ✨

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

This week: Orion, Mars and the Beehive, Moon and Venus, Saturn and the Moon. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

The brightest star dots of Orion. The belt of Orion at centre. Orion nebula below. Numerous other star dots.

The beehive star cluster at lower left edge. Bright orangish planet Mars upper right. Numerous star dots.

The Moon at waxing crescent phase lower left. Bright planet Venus above right of centre. Dark background.

Planet Saturn disc near top left edge. Bright Moon at waxing crescent phase below.

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Claire Lamman @clairelamman.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

My gingerbread for this year. Merry Christmas and happy Voyages to all!!

A detailed gingerbread model of a Voyager spacecraft. A tiny golden record gleams on its side.

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vsamsondc.bsky.social @vsamsondc.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Not great - this makes 4 sats in this spacecraft group that have broken up: "All the satellites had a battery assembly with a design flaw that made them vulnerable to explosion." Plus a similar design was used for some NOAA sats, 2 of which also broke up spacenews.com/retired-mili...

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Retired military weather satellite breaks up

A defunct military weather satellite has broken up in orbit and created more than 50 pieces of debris, the latest in a series of similar incidents.

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Georgia E. Brown @astrobiologee.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

It is winter solstice today - the shortest and darkest day of the year! ‘Solstice’ comes from latin - sun (sol) to standstill (sistere). Where the sun appears to be still in the sky. The day is 7 hrs, 50 min (in London) compared to the 16 hr 38 min day in summer solstice.

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Georgia E. Brown @astrobiologee.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Starry night in the South East - got the telescope out and aweing at the Waning Gibbous Moon, Jupiter and its moons and of course Mars… Planning my next steps of my astronomy journey, attaching a camera and start taking some long exposures! Missing the clear northern skies of Newcastle🔭🌌

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jodimation.bsky.social @jodimation.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

www.gov.uk/government/c... UK Public survey on AI & copyright. Please give feedback. The UK government is leaning toward allowing tech companies to freely use copyrighted material to train AI models unless creative workers and companies opt out. Opt in works, Opt out is an inherently broken system.

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This consultation seeks views on how the government can ensure the UK’s legal framework for AI and copyright supports the UK creative industries and AI sector together.

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

more people need to realize that science and art go hand in hand

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Dr Space Junk (Alice Gorman) @drspacejunk.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

The Vancouver Recommendations on Space Mining: to help ensure that space mining, wherever and whenever it takes place, does so in a safe and sustainable manner. 🧪🪐

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Georgia E. Brown @astrobiologee.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

One way I like to take a step back from my research is to listen to songs that handle some of the big feelings I get about astrobiology and space! One of my favourites is Yard Act - 100% Endurance (which I coincidentally also worked on this music video for!) youtu.be/phSkbBZelCw?...

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Yard Act - 100% Endurance

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Jasmine 🌌🔭 @astrojaz.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

we are small.

Saturn’s rings cover the top half of the image and the bottom shows the planet with a glowing atmosphere. In the black space between the rings and planet is a tiny white dot, which is Earth.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

The infamous pale blue dot image taken by Voyager 1. Against the darkness and emptiness of space, there is a very small dot, which is Earth, suspended in a beam of sunlight.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Earth from the surface of Mars. The dark Martian landscape is visible and in the gray sky is a tiny white dot with an arrow pointing to it reading “Earth”.

Image credit: NASA JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems/Texas A&M University

View of the Moon on the left and the Earth on the right, half lit. The two objects appear very tiny as they were photographed by Juice's scientific camera from over 5 million km away.

Image credit: ESA/Juice/JANUS

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