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Planet Hunters NGTS (Planet Hunters NGTS) has found five new planet candidates! You can read the paper announcing these discoveries in the Astronomical Journal now and read on below for a summary thread of the paper. doi.org/10.3847/1538-3… [1/15]

5 new potential planets are on the horizon! Our PhD student at Queen's University Belfast 🎓, Sean O'Brien, shares his team's journey into interstellar space. They've been unravelling the mysteries of exoplanets through the NGTS project since October 2021✨ qub.ac.uk/News/Allnews/2…

NGTS on the Telly!! Our very own Sean O'Brien and Meg Schwamb were on UTV to talk about their work with Planet Hunters NGTS! You can watch it here: itv.com/utvprogrammes/…

@WarwickAstro MSc Student Taf Zivave found this beautiful stellar flare in NGTS data. The flare causes the star to get suddenly brighter before fading back to normal more slowly. Flares are one of our main science areas aside from planets. Nice spot Taf!

Another half term over, another batch of classes completed! Thank you to all our volunteers and student artists, we hope you enjoy the holiday break 👩🏼‍💻 #codingwithsophie

Hey National Highways: North-West , when you close a junction (e.g J11 northbound in m6) why do you close 2 out of 3 lanes and cause chaos? Health and safety gone mad

Throwback to my undergraduate timetable at York

New findings by Dr Samuel Gill will help understand exoplanets (planets outside of our solar system) which have properties between those of the known exoplanet population and our solar-system giants, like TOI-2447 b which is a similar size to Saturn➡️tinyurl.com/PRexoplanets

Thread of NGTS consortium posters at #TESScon3!!!!

Welcome to NGTS! Some of our intrepid operations team members are at Paranal working on our telescopes for the next 2 weeks! L-R: Jorge Fernández, Dr James McCormac, Prof Peter Wheatley, Dr Faith Hawthorn (your social media host Dr Faith Hawthorn)

James and Jorge hard at work fixing a mount. We have 12 20cm telescopes in total at NGTS, so keeping them all in working order is quite a task!

Our PI, Prof Peter Wheatley, changes a filter on a camera (the big grey box!) Filters let us observe in different wavelengths of light - this week, we're testing out a blue light filter. 🔵

Solène Ulmer-Moll shows us some of the great results and recent publications from one of our biggest working groups, long-period planets! These are planets that orbit far away from their host stars, more like the gas giants of the Solar system. 🪐

How many astronomers does it take to eat a fondue?

PhD student Alastair Claringbold tells us all about temperate Jupiters and their atmospheres 💨

A comet sighted in the sky above NGTS at Paranal!

Please get in touch if you are interested in exoplanets with NGTS or brown dwarfs!!