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Mathew Owens @mathewjowens.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The paper describing the new solar wind modelling framework, SURF (which includes HUXt) is published. The code is up on github and will be installable from conda and pypi in a week or so. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

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Sarah Watson @sarahrosewatson.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Very lucky to have been in Valencia during the total solar eclipse last week. Managed to capture this time lapse leading up to totality with my telescope! You get a quick glimpse of totality before the telescope tracking got very confused as to where the Sun had gone!

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Sarah Watson @sarahrosewatson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Testing the telescope for Wednesday! ☀️😎(Featuring some very dry grass in Reading)

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Chris Scott @profchrisscott.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Congratulations to the wonderful @sarahrosewatson.bsky.social who today successfully defended her PhD to become #DrWatson! Sarah has been studying how #solarwind affects #comets so her friends even baked a suitably cosmic cake to celebrate.

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Sarah Watson @sarahrosewatson.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Submitted this little thing on Monday! ☄️☀️

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Dr. Craig DeForest ☀️ @craig.deforest.org · 23/01/2026

We're finishing up the rollout of Version 0j of the #PUNCH data, and several very cool science papers are in progress. Here's a very cool result on #Comet #Lemmon and the #solarwind! 🔭☀️🛰️🧪

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NASA’s Illuminate: Sun Rips Comet’s Tail in Half

YouTube video by NASA Goddard

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Sarah Watson @sarahrosewatson.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

A whole days worth of background reading to write just one line of my thesis. Not sure if that's productive or not🙃

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Dr. Craig DeForest ☀️ @craig.deforest.org · 03/12/2025

PUNCH @punch-mission.bsky.social found out we are good at comet tracking, even as we calibrate/refine our solar wind imaging pipeline. In the last 3 months, we've tracked 3 notable comets with images every 4 min, around the clock: SWAN, Atlas, and Lemmon. PUNCH data are free to get and use. ☀️🛰️🧪🔭

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NASA's PUNCH Tracks Comet Discovered by SOHO Spacecraft - NASA Science

From August to October, NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission tracked comet 2025 R2 (SWAN) — one of the thousands of comets

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Sarah Watson @sarahrosewatson.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Excited for this! The comet may cross the heliospheric current sheet, which can affect the tail of a comet, so will be interesting to see if we see any evidence of this.😍☄️

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Sarah Watson @sarahrosewatson.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Thought I would go say hi to the thing that is currently providing me with content for my PhD thesis ☀️😍

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Jonathan O'Callaghan @astrojonny.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

One of my favourite stories I’ve written this year. A third known interstellar object is flying through our solar system right now. What are the 7 biggest questions we want to answer about it? Story by me in @sciam.bsky.social www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...

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New Interstellar Object Is Full of Mysteries. Here’s What Scientists Most Want to Learn

Scientists are racing to learn as much as possible about the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS before it fades from view forever

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Chris Lintott @chrislintott.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

LOOK AT THE FUZZY LITTLE COMET

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Sarah Watson @sarahrosewatson.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

A GIF of my images of the eclipse this weekend, using the SeeStar telescope! ☀️🌕 😍(The most spectacular thing about it being that there were no clouds in Reading throughout!!)

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Sarah Watson @sarahrosewatson.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Check out my recent paper, just published in ApJ! ☄️

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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 21/03/2025

Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) spotted in full glory by #SolarOrbiter. The #comet was observed with the SoloHI instrument from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory. The encounter happened on 14-25 January, while Solar Orbiter was heading toward #Venus and the comet coincidentally swung by the #Sun. 🔭 🧪

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