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I think this is my favourite image from last week's northern lights storm. During the burst of activity at 00:19am we had beams raining down in red and greens, filling the sky above the Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank Observatory. flic.kr/p/2qnY8mm #aurora #jodrellbank

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The birth of a first star - and another finished spread! To a bright Sunday for all... w/appreciation for the work of @j_dunkley Emma Chapman & the quest for these first stars! #Nostos #Unflattening 2

Marvellous news: the Royal Astronomical Society, The Geological Society and the other learned societies at Burlington House have cemented their future on Piccadilly. A new 999-year lease has just been signed. It would have been utterly bizarre to have pushed them out.

It's Halloween, and what's scarier than workplace harassment? 🎃👻 Take a coffee break Trick or Treat: Google if your uni committed to ditch NDAs, then check if their policies now reflect it. If not, kindly ask a policy advisor about their progress! #EndNDAs #MeToo Can't Buy My Silence

My advice, for what it’s worth: try not to be distracted by the faintly discourteous, the mildly incompetent, the harmlessly obnoxious. Roll with the delayed trains, dropped litter and misused apostrophes. Save your powder for the truly malevolent creatures now stalking the land.

Exciting #SKAnews: Germany has joined the SKAO! 🇩🇪 Willkommen Deutschland 🎉 "The SKAO super telescopes in South Africa and Australia will revolutionise our understanding of the universe" - Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger. More: skao.int/en/news/588/ge… Max Planck Society @BMBF_Bund

In an ideal scenario the President of the United States and the worst person in the world would be two different people.

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

Headline writers not messing about

And you wonder why I spend my time looking up at the stars.

This is awkward but I can’t remember the name of one of the women on my “Women In Science” necklace, and Google reverse image has not helped. I know it’s going to be so obvious I kick myself. Anyone know?

Another huge piece of space junk landed on Earth, right next to a Kenyan village. Companies currently have no legal responsibility for damage, and so no motivation to stop littering the sky. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

I am thinking about moving to another planet following recent political events. TRAPPIST-1e looks nice. 40 lightyears away, tidally locked so one side always faces its red dwarf star, but the twilight zone in between the halves might just be habitable. A fresh start anyone?

I am in love with the VR teaching lab at Uni of Nottingham #WeAreUoN - I spent the morning walking across Mars! The applications for #astronomy teaching (especially in a cloudy country) are so exciting. Anyone got a VR model of a telescope control room?!