Ryan Milligan @ryanomilligan.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Some pictures of the Total Solar Eclipse from Burgos, Spain. The corona was a sublime golden colour rather than the usual pearly white, a naked eye prominence was visible above the eastern limb, and it was bookended by two glorious diamond rings, all in under 2 minutes. Unreal. 050
Ryan Milligan @ryanomilligan.bsky.social · 05/02/2026Having a very stimulating and productive meeting on The Impact of Solar Flare Irradiance on the Earth's Ionosphere at the International Space Science Institute (@issibern.ch) in Bern, Switzerland with these fine people! 050
Reposted by Ryan MilliganESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 21/01/2026Ever wondered what powers a solar flare? 💥 Solar Orbiter is finally giving us answers to this long-standing mystery. The mission caught a 'magnetic avalanche' on the surface of the Sun just before a flare was released. 🔭🧪1/3 228572
Ryan Milligan @ryanomilligan.bsky.social · 03/12/2025PhD position available at QUB/ARC on investigating how solar flares with different spectral profiles impact the Earth’s ionosphere. More details here: www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post... Information session at noon on 8th December. Fill out this form to attend forms.office.com/e/DSk4A9K3dB 042
Reposted by Ryan MilliganNature Astronomy @natastron.nature.com · 02/12/2025Check out this Review of the past 30 yrs of SOHO! Published today in Nature Astronomy: rdcu.be/eSLUR #astronomyrdcu.beSOHO’s 30-year legacy of observing the SunNature Astronomy - SOHO has provided a high-quality, continuous record of the Sun and its atmosphere. Marking the thirtieth anniversary since SOHO’s launch, this Review highlights its legacy,... 0152
Reposted by Ryan MilliganLiving Reviews | Solar Physics @livingrev-solphys.bsky.social · 27/11/2025#ThrowBackThursday Special Issue "Solar and Stellar Flares: Observations, Simulations, and Synergies" / Edited by Lyndsay Fletcher and Petr Heinzel: link.springer.com/journal/1120... Published 2015 in #SolarPhysics, with highly-cited contributions to a conference in honor of Zdeněk Švestka. 072
Ryan Milligan @ryanomilligan.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Nice to see a paper led by one of my PhD students getting the Editor's Choice in Solar Physics! We looked at Doppler shifts in Si III during solar flares using SORCE/SOLSTICE data. There also appears to be a longitudinal dependence on velocity, which may or may not be instrumental... 030
Reposted by Ryan MilliganPaulo @pjasimoes.bsky.social · 02/05/2025MSc & PhD positions in #heliophysics and #exoplanets at Mackenzie University, Brazil. Applications deadline May 13. Scholarships available - please get in touch (DM me!) for more info about this and projects! We can also talk about posdoc positions #AcademicSky www.mackenzie.br/processos-se...mackenzie.brMestrado / Doutorado 1117
Ryan Milligan @ryanomilligan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025My PhD student Aisling O'Hare has published her first paper studying the impact of QPPs in solar flare emission on Earth's atmosphere. The ionosphere is much more sensitive to small changes in EUV irradiance than previously believed as measured by changes in total electron content. 👏 2102
Ryan Milligan @ryanomilligan.bsky.social · 24/03/2025This Saturday, between 10am and noon, a partial solar eclipse will be visible from much of the UK and Ireland (weather permitting). QUB/ARC are hosting an event at the Ulster Museum where we will have eclipse glasses and solar telescopes. Come along! www.ulstermuseum.org/whats-on/cha... 030
Ryan Milligan @ryanomilligan.bsky.social · 22/01/2025Having a great week at @issibern.ch with these amazing scientists discussing The Impact of Solar Flare Irradiance on the Earth's Ionosphere 081
Ryan Milligan @ryanomilligan.bsky.social · 11/01/2025I am very honoured to have been awarded the James Dungey Lectureship by the Royal Astronomical Society. 240
Ryan Milligan @ryanomilligan.bsky.social · 29/11/2024Our paper on the instrumental discrepancies on solar flare observations in Lyman-alpha emission, led by Harry Greatorex, has now been published in Solar Physics: link.springer.com/article/10.1... 051