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Peter T Gallagher @petertgallagher.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Thanks to these lads and lassies from the Irish Air Corps, DIAS, TCD, TU Dublin and the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics. Hope you enjoyed it!

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Peter T Gallagher @petertgallagher.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Yes!! We got white light, IR and iron line images. Now the data analysis begins …

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Royal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

A warm welcome to six new @royalastrosoc.bsky.social Council trustees! 👋💫 Dr Olivia Keenan, Professor David Alexander, Dr Emma Woodfield and Professor Peter Gallagher were all elected as councillors following the Society's AGM on Friday 8 May. ⤵️

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esaspaceweather @esaspaceweather.esa.int · 10/11/2025

And... Another X-class solar 💥flare💥 ! Today, Nov 10, peaking at 09:18UT an X1.2 flare was detected. Here is the Hα light curve also showing the GOES X-ray light curve swe.ssa.esa.int/kso-S107g-fe... and the radio burst onset ~09:11UT as seen in the radio spectrogram swe.ssa.esa.int/web/guest/si...

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

At some point we need to have a discussion about the ethics of participation in press releases as scientists. From today’s K2-18b saga, Nikku Madhusudhan in the press release says ‘The signal came through loud and clear’ (1/n)

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 20/03/2025

Today, we’re launching ‘Strategy 2040’, laying out ESA’s future activities and priorities, with a clear and ambitious vision to cement Europe’s leadership in space. #Strategy2040 will evolve and grow over the years ahead. Read more 👉 esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/corpora...

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Peter T Gallagher @petertgallagher.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Great day at DIAS Dunsink Observatory talking future space missions … and checking out sunspots with the historic Grubb Refractor. Not a bad way to spend my birthday.

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Tara Murphy @taramurphy.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

First images from the Square Kilometre Array Low Frequency (SKA-Low)! Taken with only 1,024 of the planned 131,072 antennas, and it's already looking good :) #RadioAstronomy

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Peter T Gallagher @petertgallagher.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Congratulations on this huge achievement, Craig. Can’t wait to see the data!

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Peter T Gallagher @petertgallagher.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Spotted this rolled up on a shelf in Birr Castle today: “Observations of the radiation of heat from the Moon Dec 1868 - Apr 1869”. The 4th Earl made a 3 foot telescope and thermopile to measure lunar heat. Pretty amazing. Published in Proc of Royal Society 1869! www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/1...

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 18/02/2025

Solar Orbiter is getting ready for a close encounter with #Venus. Today’s flyby will be the first to significantly ‘tilt’ the spacecraft’s orbit and allow it to see the #Sun’s polar regions, which cannot be seen from Earth. Get the details 👉 www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup... 🔭

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Solar Orbiter ready for close encounter with Venus

The European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to guide the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with Venus so far.Today’s flyby will be the first to significantly ‘tilt’ the spac...

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European Space History @eurospacehistory.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

#OTD 10 February 2020, @esascience.esa.int’s Sun-exploring #SolarOrbiter spacecraft was launched on a US Atlas V 411 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. www.esa.int/Science_Expl... (pics: @esa.int and @ulalaunch.bsky.social)

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Laura A. Hayes @hayesla.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Spotted some apt graffiti by Broombridge this morning while cycling along the Royal Canal to Dunsink - right at the spot where Hamilton first wrote it down: i² = j² = k² = ijk = -1 😂

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 04/02/2025

Big news! We’ve just launched some new accounts 🎉 Give them a follow: 🔭 @esascience.esa.int 🧑‍🚀 @esaexploration.esa.int 🚀 @esatransport.esa.int 🌍 @esaearth.esa.int 📡 @esaoperations.esa.int ⚙️ @esatechnology.esa.int 🛰️ @esaconnectivity.esa.int Stay tuned for exciting things ahead! 💙✨

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Tara Murphy @taramurphy.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Three Square Kilometre Array Commissioning Scientist jobs available to work at the SKA-Low Science Operations Centre in Perth, Western Australia. recruitment.skao.int/vacancy/skal... Deadline February 23rd. Contact George Heald (@georgeheald.bsky.social) for more information. #RadioAstronomy

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SKA-Low Commissioning Scientists - SKA Observatory

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.

Change in Paris air quality between 2007 and 2023 using visuals

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Austrian Space Weather Office @aswogeosphere.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is putting on quite a show over the last few days in the @esa.int SOHO/LASCO coronagraph images, as it passed through the closest point of its orbit at 0.093 au. This comet's orbit is strongly inclined to the plane of the planets. 👇 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2024_...

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Tara Murphy @taramurphy.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Hot off the press! One of my students, Yu Wing (Joshua) Lee, has discovered a new radio transient (along with @manishacaleb.bsky.social). Read more about "The Stellar Object That’s Too Slow to Shine" in their Conversation article: theconversation.com/blinking-rad... #RadioAstronomy

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Blinking radio pulses from space hint at a cosmic object that ‘shouldn’t exist’

The slowest ‘cosmic lighthouse’ ever found challenges our understanding of how neutron stars work.

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Peter T Gallagher @petertgallagher.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Good night … from Dunsink Observatory

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Karl Battams @sungrazercomets.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

As many have pointed out, the LASCO images on the SOHO website are saturated. So this is the result of my own algo for processing them. And I will echo my sentiments from yesterday: This. Comet. Is. RIDICULOUS! 🤩😍 ☄️🔭☀️

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Peter T Gallagher @petertgallagher.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Good luck with launch preps, Craig. Can’t wait to see the data!

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Professor Carole Mundell @cmundell.esa.int · 11/01/2025

Many congratulations for Professor Jackman and grateful for her expert advice and work with @esa!

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Peter T Gallagher @petertgallagher.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

EUV images of the Sun from NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory are back on SolarMonitor! solmon.dias.ie/fulldisk?dat...

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European Space Agency @esa.int · 09/01/2025

Hello @bsky.app, here's to looking into more #bluesky and beyond... 😉

Image of the Moon, on a background of the blackness of space, and foreground at right of Earth's atmosphere in shades of blue, taken by ESA astronaut André Kuipers from the ISS in 2012.

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The Journal @thejournal.ie · 08/01/2025

Thousands of students have arrived at the RDS for the BT Young Scientist & Technology exhibition. Ahead of the event opening to the public, The Journal spoke to one student who wanted to find out if there is any truth to someone having a “big Irish head”. jrnl.ie/6587485

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Vape safety and testing big Irish heads: What to expect at this year's Young Scientist

A total of 550 projects were selected to compete in this year’s exhibition.

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Matthew J West @solarphysicist.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Hey University students, want to learn more about #SpaceWeather 🚀☔? You're still in time to apply for #ESA's Space Weather Training Course in Belgium. Details found here: www.esa.int/Education/ES...

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Stay ahead of the storm: understand the fundamentals of space weather with ESA

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Rob Kavanagh @robkavanagh.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Our recent work has just been published in A&A! We developed a retrieval framework for the large-scale magnetic fields of objects emitting radio bursts driven by the electron cyclotron maser (ECM) instability. We applied it to the brown dwarf J0623, and found that it has a large magnetic obliquity!

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Peter T Gallagher @petertgallagher.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Received our new advanced propulsion system at Dunsink Observatory today courtesy of Fingal County Council. The e-cargo bike can do 25km/h on the flat and takes the pain out of hills, wind, etc.

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Peter T Gallagher @petertgallagher.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Job alert! Postdoctoral Fellowship in sunspot classification and solar flare forecasting using machine learning @DIASAstronomy. Deadline is December 5. www.dias.ie/postdoctoral...

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