"The Guy from Irish TV" @NASA for 50 years (and counting)! Ex Foreign Hack @BBCNews @RTENews; now see/hear me live on space @BBC @RTE @NewstalkFM @AJEnglish etc
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Leo Enright @ollopa11.bsky.social retweeted
ACQUISITION OF SIGNAL CONFIRMED! 🎉🛰️
#BepiColombo telemetry shows the Mercury Transfer Module has successfully separated from the spacecraft stack! ✅
First step of Mercury arrival phase - complete! 👏
Next stop: Mercury orbit insertion for MPO and Mio in November!
@ESA @JAXA @BepiColombo @ISAS_JAXA_EN @esascience #Mercury
ALT First signal after seperation from BepiColombo
Leo Enright @ollopa11.bsky.social retweeted
Alma mater of Maryam Mirzakhani, the first woman to win the mathematics Fields Medal.
Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, one of Iran’s top science and engineering institutions, was bombed tonight, and a number of schools reportedly damaged.
Founded in 1966 (as Aryamehr University), Sharif is a cornerstone of Iran’s scientific and academic life.
Striking and destroying universities and schools is not just an attack on buildings,it is an attack on a country’s future.
Observers in Ireland should watch out for a space re-entry event between 08:34 and 08:40 Irish Time on tomorrow (Saturday) morning. There is an *infinitesimal* chance that debris could land in the area of the Beara Penninsula, and eastwards to the Old Head of Kinsale.
This is the current global risk map calculated by @Marco_Langbroek and his team
Major cities in the spacecraft's path after the Ireland pass include slightly to the south of the following: London, Lille, Frankfurt and Budapest. Cosmos 482 remains far mor likely to fall harmlessly into the ocean, but observers should be on the lookout.
Great to see @SouthernStarIRL Skibbereen still keeping an eye on the Czar after 140 years😉 [It is virtually certain that the Cosmos 482 parachute will NOT function☹️]
ALT ChatGPT . Prompt: "create an image of a soviet venera spacecraft parachuting into The River Ilen in Skibbereen Cork"
Poland is especially worried: On 19 February, a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage landed on a Polish farm, and the Polish space agency POLSA is keen to show it is on-the-ball.
polsa.gov.pl/wydarzenia/komu…
Congratulations to @stdominicscabra and @StFlannans on this win @nss . The prize is named after Gerard K O'Neill, who was inspired by the Bernal Sphere, a 1929 design by Irishman J. D. Bernal - a visionary polymath who has never been properly recognised in Ireland.
In 30 minutes the @framonauts will pass directly over the entire length of Ireland - the first orbiting humans ever to do so. Enjoy the view! It's a lovely day down here, so be sure to take some pics!
ALT @heavensabovecom
Luke O'Neill, a passionate defender of science. His principal message today was that ALL European universities are now open to US researchers. The ERC will fund suitable research in ANY European Union university. Come to Europe.
Leo Enright @ollopa11.bsky.social retweeted
Whoa: The @ESASolarOrbiter spacecraft got a spectacular view of Comet ATLAS (C/2024 G3) as it passed close to the Sun. Look at that enormous, splintered tail!
This comet won't be seen again for another 600,000 years.
I wonder does An Taoiseach @MichealMartinTD @dfatirl and @merrionstreet know that the first woman astronomer hired by the US Naval Observatory was Isabel Martin ? @janeematthews @louiseburne_
Isabel Martin Lewis (as she was known after marriage) was passionate about promoting STEM amongst the young. Her second book, "Astronomy for Young Folks", was one of many published during her lifetime. She had a column @Nature for thirty years.
Mná do Harris? It worked here - twice!
Iowa Poll: Kamala Harris leapfrogs Donald Trump to take lead near Election Day. Here's how desmoinesregister.com/story/… via @DMRegister
