He was good people ❤️

He was a strict teacher and a no-nonsense administrator, but I remember Dybol as an excellent mentor and a supportive and warm person. He was stubborn and tireless in fighting for what he believed and cared deeply for his students. He's greatly missed (6/6)

He didn't shy away when I asked him to come live in a tent for a couple weeks in a middle of nowhere with a bunch of Astronomy enthusiasts to teach high-school students about Astronomy, and was an excellent sport about the whole madness of a student-run science camp (5/..)

He also had a whole spiel about how the Oort Cloud isn't necessarily real, which was a demonstration of how you should read and review research papers and challenge accepted conclusions when new tools and evidence become available (4/..

The legendary dreaded "Tycho" task required us to draw a simple histogram of star density in the Tycho catalogue in an arbitrary stripe of sky using ANSI C. We learned to think about geometry, astrometry, computer memory, and limits of a programming language in a way that stuck (3/..

While best known in the Planetary Science community for his cometary dynamics work, I'll remember him as one of the best teachers and mentors a student could wish for (2/..

Just learned about passing of one of my favourite Astronomy Professors, Piotr "Dybol" Dybczyński 🪨☄️🔭 www.astro.amu.edu.pl/pl/z-gleboki... (1/..

The aurora is unreal 🤩

The bright limb at the bottom right is sunset lighting isn't it?

One of my most hated tropes in fiction is that you have to abandon aspirations for marriage/family life/long-term friendships to have a career... it makes me so angry. In reality, you need to have your support group.
And luck.

In the olden days it was also called "Miesiąc" which literally means "a month".

It is a very esteemed and high impact journal 😌

And the ship is called Integrity 🙃

I didn't realise Acta Prima Aprilia had a proper journal page. Udder respect to all the authors for following-up with some deliciously wild ideas 🤩 🔭

Cow-culation: Reentry Impact Risk to Livestock in the Satellite Megaconstellation Era The commercial space industry is launching more satellites into Low Earth Orbit every year. Aotearoa New Zealand (NZ) has a thriving dairy and cattle industry. Unfortunately, these industries could co...

It's that time of year again...

arxiv.org/abs/2603.29324

This is excellent work, you went a-bovine and beyond! 🛰🐄

Being Polish in UK is a solid culture shock. I still catch myself explaining in detail exactly how not alright things are 🫠

The Amazing Adventures of Rosetta and Philae | LEGO® Ideas For this design, I was inspired by the European Space Agency (ESA) Science Mission called Rosetta, and its animated video "Once Upon a Time: The Amazing Adventu…

Lego Rosetta and Philae? shutup and take my money! Definitely worth an upvote 🔭☄️🧪

IMPACT OF PARENTHOOD ON UNIVERSITY EMPLOYMENT. Line graph shows how the probability of holding a research position changes from four years before to seven years after having children.

Becoming a parent is much more detrimental to women’s academic careers than it is to men’s

Read the full story: go.nature.com/4v4rxmQ

😍 🛰️🔭

The size of the crater on Dimorphos looks slightly underestimated @raducan.bsky.social

I know one thing, I would never afford moving to UK to do my PhD here and work here with these visa costs.

Sorry! It wasn't even 11 but 8 years ago I was applying for naturalisation for one of my children because they were born before we did 5 years in UK and it cost us ~£800. Back then 5 years stay was enough for EU citizens to have equivalent of indifinite leave. And we arrived in UK for free 🤷‍♀️

Sweet Mother of Brexit, it was half that for naturalisation 11 years ago 🫠

Oh, that's the one where if a headline ends in a question mark then the answer is most certainly "no"

A fantastic application of the Betteridge's law of headlines 🤩

But but, what about the air, the sky, the seas, the SPACE 🫣

Blue Origin Joins the Race for Orbital Data Centers With 51K Satellite Plan Not to be outdone by SpaceX, Blue Origin has filed its own plans to launch orbiting data centers using a constellation of up to 51,600 satellites.

I do not like the space race where billionaire corporations launch as much as they can, as fast as they can, until 😱 🛰️💥, now nobody gets to use space anymore

www.pcmag.com/news/blue-or...

A child's rendition of Saturn on a black background surrounded by all the moons, the biggest one a circle and the rest dots. A bit of Jupiter is lurking on top, and line art of constellations of Orion and Big Dipper in the background

My child asked me about how many moons Saturn has and proceeded to produce this absolutely perfect illustration. Featuring Saturn with all her moons, a tiny bit of Jupiter on top and constellations of Orion and Big Dipper in the background 🔭

Shame they lost some of the punctuation from her original post. Absolute fire