A me-occultation 🤪

Oh, wow, that’s so cool 🤩
Why „me“?

Comet Halley's nucleus as seen by Giotto. A lumpy, elongated comet nucleus fills most of the frame, set against deep black space. Bright, hazy jets of gas and dust stream from sunlit areas on the right-hand side, creating a faint glowing veil.

40 years ago, the Giotto mission was writing history: 

🛰️ ESA's first deep space mission
☄️ first cometary close flyby
⏰ and later on, first reactivation of a spacecraft

The success of Giotto inspired our Rosetta mission and together laid the foundation for our Comet Interceptor mission. 🔭 🧪 1/3

Any Sydney-based astronomers here? A team at Andalucia is coordinating an occultation campaign for one of Jupiter's small (2-5km) irregular moons, #Kallichore (a candidate for an #ESAJuice flyby) that'll be passing in front of a star at ~12:20UT on March 18th.

opop.obspm.fr/media/data/c...

Thanks, Nick!

Thank you, Luke! It was wonderful of you to take the time to join. I hope you had a good week in Bern so far.

It still seems unreal to me that humans will soon be flying back to the moon! They will be returning to Earth at a speed of 40.000 km/h, the fastest ever reentry of a crewed spacecraft.

This remastered video shows a similar reentry from the #Artemis 1 mission back in 2022 at 9x speed. 🔭🧪

I've ~stabilized a short piece. Awesome video! 👍

I don’t want to give it away here but will post it with proper alt text in one of the next posts.

What was I looking down on here?

A) clouds
B) ocean
C) snow dunes

It was really quite the view 🤩

Model of the International Space Station hovering above the entrance hall at Bremen airport.

Just arrived in Bremen, Germany, to go work on an ESA M8 mission proposal and the airport here has a beautiful model of the International Space Station (ISS) 🤩

Thank you, Simeon!

Thanks!

Thanks, Meg!

Thanks!

Man with brown glasses a beard, wearing a blue coat and scarf in front of an old University building.

It‘s a beautiful day here in Bern and my first day as a professor at the @unibe.ch. Excited but also humbled about what is to come.

Wishing everyone a good start into this new week!

You may have seen pictures, but have you ever seen video of a gigantic jet #TLE from space?

Astronaut Jeanette Epps captured this incredible sequence on July 20th, 2024 for the DTU/@science.esa.int Thor-Davis experiment. 🧪🔭

youtu.be/xN2J7_rOBJY

Credit: ESA/NASA/J. Epps
Processing: Simeon Schmauß

Hi y'all
You still have a few days to apply for our open professor position in planetary science in Bern, Switzerland. See more details below! For any questions, feel free to reach out to me.

🔭🧪⚛️#planetSci

Hi y'all
You still have a few days to apply for our open professor position in planetary science in Bern, Switzerland. See more details below! For any questions, feel free to reach out to me.

🔭🧪⚛️#planetSci

Submitted paper with the title "The Astrosky Ecosystem: An independent online platform for science communication and social networking"

On Monday, we're going to be arXiv-official! 🔭☄️

We just submitted a short paper outlining our project to the arXiv 🥳

Post-doc on properties of Solar system small bodies The small bodies of our Solar system (comets and asteroids) are the remnants of the building blocs that accreted to form the planets. The suite of events that occurred during planet formation left pri...

Are you looking for a postdoc position working on asteroids and comets? Would it help if it's in a beautiful place in southern France? If yes, then consider applying to the following position of my colleague Benoit Carry at the Observatory in Nice:
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/402212

#planetSci

We're so excited to share the results of the ALMA large program ARKS that studied the distribution of dust and gas in a sample of 24 exoKuiper belts. With @lucaroundtheworld.bsky.social, Meredith Hughes and a large collaboration, we just published 10 papers presenting our first results arkslp.org

The new launch will also allow for a larger mass of @cometinterceptor.bsky.social, which will be used for more fuel, hence a larger delta-v (now up to 1 km/s compared to 600 m/s).

This will likely make more targets accessible to the mission.

ESA’s Comet Interceptor mission moves up launch A delay in one European Space Agency mission is creating an opportunity for an earlier, and more capable, launch for another ESA spacecraft.

Big #planetSci news: @cometinterceptor.bsky.social is no longer planned to launch alongside the Ariel mission.

Michael Küppers, ESA project scientist for CI at the SBAG meeting: Working to identify a launch opportunity for Aug. 2028 - July 2029.

spacenews.com/esas-comet-i...

Hahaha, I like that idea 😅

Don't know the details, but they lost contact at the beginning of Dec. last year. The spacecraft passed behind Mars and didn't re-estabilish communication with Earth when it came back around. It seems that it's no longer on its nominal orbit.

Can highly recommend submitting a proposal in response to this call by @issibern.ch! Successful proposals allow you to meet twice for one week in Bern with a small group of researchers of your choosing to discuss and work on your favorite science topic.

I also encourage ECR to apply!

#panetSci 🔭

#planetSci

After reviewing nearly 200 applications from prospective grad students and postdocs over the past few months for a couple different 🧪⚒️ postings, here are some tips, at least as they apply to North American positions. I hope they help future applicants. Share with your networks. 🧵

Heute habe ich ein Video von einem der für mich beeindruckendsten Physik-Miniversuche gemacht. Dazu habe ich einen Wanderstiefel an seinen beiden Schnürsenkeln aufgehängt. Eine doppelte Drehung des Stiefels lässt sich rückgängig machen, ohne die Orientierung des Stiefels zu verändern! 1/

The calendar changes— on the one hand, an entirely arbitrary chronological signifier. On the other, an absolutely necessary chance to catch our breath, renew our energies, and look ahead. Let’s go!