Stefan @lenshunter.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Congratulations to Francis Halzen, the IceCube team, and all neutrino enthusiasts 😀 #physic #nobel-price @icecubeneutrino.bsky.social 000
Stefan @lenshunter.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Space Warps Classify complete!! Thank you for all the hard work on inspecting #Euclid images! Please join the sprint to finish Space Warps Refine -- we're almost there! @zooniverse.bsky.social @esa.int @science.esa.int #ESA #Euclid #Lensing All details: blog.spacewarps.org/2026/09/11/s...blog.spacewarps.orgSpace Warps Classify complete!! Sprint finish on Space Warps RefineWhat a phenomenal achievement! You have collectively made a staggering 5.3 million classifications and classified 240,000 subjects on the Space Warps ESA Euclid Data Release 1 (DR1) dataset! Incred… 010
Reposted by StefanEuclid Consortium @ec-euclid.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Do you want to join? All the background is here: blog.spacewarps.org/2026/09/11/s... 🔭 #ESA #ESAEuclid #Euclid #space #graviationblog.spacewarps.orgSpace Warps Classify complete!! Sprint finish on Space Warps RefineWhat a phenomenal achievement! You have collectively made a staggering 5.3 million classifications and classified 240,000 subjects on the Space Warps ESA Euclid Data Release 1 (DR1) dataset! Incred… 1128
Reposted by StefanEuclid Consortium @ec-euclid.bsky.social · 11/09/2026#CitizenScience afficionados, #Euclid scientists would like to again solicit your input for classifying #GravitationalLensing systems. We need a sprint finish before the science analysis can be completed. 18000 galaxies that are maybe acting as lenses are waiting for your eyes and brains. 🔭 #ESA 21813
Stefan @lenshunter.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Congratulation to the entire #Rubin #LSST team. The first image of the LSST Camera has been released 😀🎉 a new era of time domain astronomy has started! All the best for the next 10 years. noirlab.edu/public/news/... @vrubinobs.bsky.socialnoirlab.eduNSF–DOE Rubin Observatory Opens Deep Window on Famous Cosmic Field - A new NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory image featuring hundreds of thousands of distant galaxies in and around the COSMOS field ma...A new image from NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory offers a spectacularly deep view into a famous region of sky known as the COSMOS field. Located in the constellation Sextans, COSMOS is one of the mo... 000
Reposted by StefanESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 01/08/2026Who's seen all three types of solar eclipses? 🌑 Total ⭕ Annular 🌙 Partial On 12 august you've got a chance to see a total solar eclipse or a partial one, depending on where you are. 1/3 🔭 🧪 #EuropeanSolarEclipse 710729
Stefan @lenshunter.bsky.social · 24/07/2026We can now vote for the new euro banknote designs! surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/neweuro/ Let's see what we will get next :) I just voted.surveys.ecb.europa.euSurvey | surveys.ecb.europa.euI’ve just had my say on our future banknotes. Have your say too! 000
Reposted by StefanEuclid Consortium @ec-euclid.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Time flies, doesn't it? #ESAEuclid launched three years ago today. 🎉 🚀 🛰️ For the second anniversary last year we revisited launch day: www.euclid-ec.org/second-anniv... #ESA #Euclid #astronomy #spaceeuclid-ec.orgSecond anniversary of Euclid in spaceIt was a hot morning at Cape Canaveral in Florida, on July 1st, 2023, two years ago today. It was the first morning of the 3rd quarter of the year, the earliest possible launch day for Euclid. Late at... 0162
Stefan @lenshunter.bsky.social · 01/07/2026We celebrate the formal start of LSST now also at the University of Turku and FINCA 😀🎉 Exiting times ahead --- and we can be part of it! www.utu.fi/en/news/pers... @utu.fi @vrubinobs.bsky.social @lsstuk.bsky.socialutu.fiVera C. Rubin Observatory revolutionising time-domain astronomy: Start of the 10 year Legacy Survey of Space and Time 020
Stefan @lenshunter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026Action! NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Begins Capturing the Greatest Cosmic Movie Ever Made rubinobservatory.org/news/action-... With this slogan, the 10 year Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) has started last night 🎉😍 it will be a revolution for time-domain astronomy @vrubinobs.bsky.socialrubinobservatory.orgAction! NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Begins Capturing the Greatest Cosmic Movie Ever Made | Rubin ObservatoryThe wait is over: NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory, funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, is now capturing the cosmos in unprecedented detail, ... 010
Reposted by StefanNSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 30/06/2026Decades in the making, and the work of thousands of people around the world…a new era of astronomy and astrophysics is officially here 🔭🧪☄️🌌 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/action-...rubinobservatory.org 1254
Reposted by StefanEuclid Consortium @ec-euclid.bsky.social · 30/06/2026A year ago, #Euclid's first small data release 'Q1' provided data for 63 deg² of sky to the world. Now an 'Astronomy & Astrophysics Special Issue' has been published with 41 articles about and around this release: www.euclid-ec.org/q1-special-i... #astronomy #ESA #ESAEuclid #space #galaxieseuclid-ec.orgEuclid Q1 special issue of Astronomy & AstrophysicsAll results from the Euclid mission as well as a lot of reports, tests, and predictions are published as peer reviewed articles in scientific journals. The vast majority of almost 300 papers written b... 11910
Stefan @lenshunter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026#Euclid Q1 special issue is finally published in A&A 🎉 Big congrats to everyone who contributed! www.aanda.org/articles/aa/... New challenges with DR1 are already ongoing with full speed 😀 @ec-euclid.bsky.social @eucliduk.bsky.social @esa.int @de.esa.intaanda.orgAstronomy & Astrophysics (A&A)Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A) is an international journal which publishes papers on all aspects of astronomy and astrophysics 042
Stefan @lenshunter.bsky.social · 30/06/2026wow! the citizen science project platform #zooniverse reached one billion classifications! Big congrats @zooniverse.bsky.social and thank you to everyone who helped on #zooniverse. You enable real science! blog.zooniverse.org/2026/06/29/o...blog.zooniverse.orgOne BILLION Classifications!We are SO happy to announce that Zooniverse has reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 BILLION classifications contributed by volunteers!To give you a sense of what an extraordinary milestone this i… 010
Reposted by StefanEuclid Consortium @ec-euclid.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Last week, we announced that #ESA and the #Euclid Consortium released a massive image of the #MilkyWay's heart. This 'Q2' data release contains images of 60 million stars. A great primer on this image comes from the EC's Chris Pattison: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfU_... #ESAEuclid #astronomy #spaceyoutube.comEuclid just dropped a 6 GIGAPIXEL Masterpiece of our Galaxy’s CoreYouTube video by Chris Pattison 1298
Stefan @lenshunter.bsky.social · 24/06/2026#Euclid space telescope captured our own galaxy. The images just got publicly released as the quick data release 2: www.cosmos.esa.int/web/euclid/q... This is another mile stone in the transformative power for #Euclid. @ec-euclid.bsky.socialcosmos.esa.intQuick Data Release Q2 - Euclid - Cosmos 010
Reposted by StefanESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 23/06/2026🥁🥁🥁 New Euclid image coming In 1995, astronomers turned Hubble to a seemingly empty patch of sky. The now famous Hubble Deep Field turned back with 3000 galaxies. Now, astronomers have done the opposite. 🔭 🧪☄️ 1/2 1139460
Reposted by StefanESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 24/06/2026No less than 60 million stars in one image. It's possible thanks to ESA's Euclid mission. For just one day, Euclid turned its gaze to the crowded heart of the Milky Way and captured the largest, most detailed photo ever taken of our galaxy's centre in visible light. Let's dive deeper 👇 🔭 🧪 ☄️ 1/8 14660238
Stefan @lenshunter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026First Fast Track Call from #ESO is closed since 20 minutes. Let's see who is getting time granted at the famous and huge telescopes in #Chile 😀 www.eso.org/sci/observin... @eso.orgeso.orgESO - Fast Track ChannelESO is the European Organisation for Astronomical Research in the Southern Hemisphere. It operates the La Silla Paranal Observatory in Chile and has its headquarters in Garching, near Munich, Germany. 000
Stefan @lenshunter.bsky.social · 15/06/2026The new timeline from @esa.int for the Euclid Data release 1 is out: www.cosmos.esa.int/web/euclid/d... Looking forward to the great science enabled by these data 😀 cc @ec-euclid.bsky.socialcosmos.esa.intDR1 Timeline - Euclid - Cosmos 000
Stefan @lenshunter.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Thank you all for the help on SpaceWarps! 🙏 We are getting a huge amount of great lens candidates 🎉 Please help us to find the best candidates among all of them. For this, we just launched #SpaceWarps Refine: www.zooniverse.org/projects/apr... @ec-euclid.bsky.social @zooniverse.bsky.socialzooniverse.orgEuclid Refine | Space Warps - ESA Euclid | Zooniverse - People-powered researchElusive strongly lensed galaxies are waiting to be discovered! 000
Stefan @lenshunter.bsky.social · 08/05/2026Wow: A million classifications on the #SpaceWarps #Zooniverse project! Thank you so much for all the help! blog.spacewarps.org/2026/05/08/w... However, there is still more Euclid images that await inspection: www.zooniverse.org/projects/apr... @zooniverse.bsky.social @esa.int @ec-euclid.bsky.socialblog.spacewarps.orgWOW: A million classifications!!After just two weeks, we have surpassed an incredible 1 million classifications on the new ESA Euclid data! Many congratulations to all of the Space community on reaching this milestone! We have be… 0201
Reposted by StefanESA auf Deutsch @de.esa.int · 21/04/2026Helft uns bei der Jagd nach Anzeichen von Raumzeit‑Krümmung! 🔎 Macht mit bei „Euclid Space Warps“ auf Zooniverse und sucht nach starken Gravitationslinsen in noch nie zuvor gesehenen Bildern von unserem Detektiv fürs Dunkle Universum. 🕵️ 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl... 082
Stefan @lenshunter.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Finally, the Euclid SpaceWarps project is back: www.zooniverse.org/projects/apr... Please help us to find strong gravitational lenses in #euclid images on the #zooniverse platform! Any help is very much appreciated! @zooniverse.bsky.social @ec-euclid.bsky.social @utu.fi @helsinki.fizooniverse.orgSpace Warps - ESA Euclid | Zooniverse - People-powered researchElusive strongly lensed galaxies are waiting to be discovered! 092
Reposted by StefanEuclid Consortium @ec-euclid.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Space Warps is back! Do you want to join forces with #Euclid Consortium scientists and discover gravitational lenses that no human has ever seen before? #astronomy #science #GravitationalLenses #ESA #space #CitizenScience #ESAEuclid #Zooniverse 43417
Stefan @lenshunter.bsky.social · 02/04/2026#ArtemisII is on the way to the moon! 🚀🤞 More than 50 years after the last visit by humans. 000
Reposted by StefanESA Exploration @exploration.esa.int · 01/04/2026🚀 Artemis II update: the launch teams have begun filling the rocket with its fuel. Stay tuned! 📸: NASA 1741171
Reposted by StefanCitizen Science for All @c-s-for-all.bsky.social · 01/04/2026It's Citizen Science month! Citizen science is for everyone – you don’t need a PhD to make a difference, just curiosity and a willingness to get involved! Check out @scistarter.bsky.social @zooniverse.bsky.social @inaturalist.bsky.social #CitizenScienceMonth #ScienceForAll #InclusionMatters 0117
Reposted by StefanDr. Jessie Christiansen @aussiastronomer.bsky.social · 13/03/2026Oof, only an ~8% selection rate for JWST proposals (225 out of 2855 proposals!). 7489
Stefan @lenshunter.bsky.social · 26/02/2026The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) has just started at the Rubin Observatory to deliver its first transient alerts: rubinobservatory.org/news/first-a... #transients #astronomy #LSST #RubinObservatory #supernovarubinobservatory.orgNSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Launches Real-Time Discovery Machine for Monitoring the Night Sky | Rubin ObservatoryNSF–DOE Rubin Observatory has issued its first scientific alerts, marking a historic milestone in astrophysics. Expected to increase to seven million alerts per night, these first alerts start a new e... 000
Stefan @lenshunter.bsky.social · 21/02/2026We recently launched a new citizen science project: www.zooniverse.org/projects/apr... Please help find #strong-lenses on the @zooniverse.bsky.social platform using images from the #euclid #telescope. Thanks to @ec-euclid.bsky.socialzooniverse.orgSpace Warps - ESA Euclid | Zooniverse - People-powered researchElusive strongly lensed galaxies are waiting to be discovered! 073
Stefan @lenshunter.bsky.social · 19/02/2026What do we see in detail? A background galaxy is gravitationally lensed by two galaxies, G1 and G2, into five images. The spectacular aspect: Now a star exploded in this background galaxy -- which appeared now five times. We aim now to measure the expansion rate (Hubble constant) with that system. 000
Stefan @lenshunter.bsky.social · 19/02/2026I'm starting with the exciting news of the strongly #lensed #supernova 2025wny, which we named SN Winny. Our second publication on this appeared today on arXiv, as announced by @tum.de, @utu.fi, and many others! Image Credit: SN Winny Research Group 150
