Found X-rays from Uranus; ERF at UCL; Coordinate multi-award-winning @Orbyts1 scientist-school partnerships to support school science research STEM inclusivity.
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19 Apr 2024
Our Orbyts team worked super hard in our free time to write our first Impact report based on the last 6 years of programme evaluation, so we're mega excited to share it with you: orbyts.org/impact
We're delighted to present Orbyts' first Impact Report! Over the past six years we have seen Orbyts' transformational impact on young people, researchers and teachers alike and we’re excited to share that with you.
Find the 2017-2023 Orbyts Impact Report: orbyts.org/impact
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12 Nov 2024
Great to see this work led by CPS alumus Dr Jamie Jasinski @spaceJamieJ @NASAJPL, including CPS co-authors Dr Will Dunn @astro__will and Prof Nick Achilleos and CPS alumni Dr @Tom_Nordheim @NASAJPL and Dr Leonardo Regoli @JohnsHopkins APL
👇nature.com/articles/s41550-0… 🌞 🧲 🪐🤩
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Dr William Dunn retweeted
12 Nov 2024
Great to see this work led by CPS alumus Dr Jamie Jasinski @spaceJamieJ @NASAJPL, including CPS co-authors Dr Will Dunn @astro__will and Prof Nick Achilleos and CPS alumni Dr @Tom_Nordheim @NASAJPL and Dr Leonardo Regoli @JohnsHopkins APL
👇nature.com/articles/s41550-0… 🌞 🧲 🪐🤩
Mysteries about Uranus that have baffled scientists for decades may have been the result of unusually powerful solar winds that happened to occur as a spacecraft visited the planet, finds a new study involving Dr @astro__will @uclmaps with @NASAJPL ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/nov/anal…
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11 Nov 2024
Could the moons of Uranus be home to life? A new study says maybe. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgk1…
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11 Nov 2024
A reanalysis of the 1986 Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus shows that it occurred during an extreme compression of the planet’s magnetosphere by the solar wind. This would have had significant effects on the measurements made during the flyby. @spaceJamieJ et al.: nature.com/articles/s41550-0…
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11 Nov 2024
When I flew by Uranus in 1986, my readings of its magnetosphere confounded scientists – but new analysis shows that it was all a cosmic coincidence and that, if I arrived just a few days earlier, I'd have observed a completely different environment: go.nasa.gov/3YIaLKD -V2
ALT A pastel blue sphere with a very smooth surface is shown against the blackness of space. NASA’s Voyager 2 captured this image of Uranus while flying by the ice giant in 1986.
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In 1986, Uranus got absolutely pounded by the solar wind: nature.com/articles/s41550-0…
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11 Nov 2024
My excellent friend @spaceJamieJ discovered that lots of Uranus's mysterious behaviour that we've talked about for decades, based on Voyager 2s flyby, happened during really extreme solar wind conditions. It's out today here: nature.com/articles/s41550-0… . May be some news coverage.
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A group of young astronomers from @Prendergast_PLS , guided by Fellow Amara Mighty, embarked on a journey to explore stellar nurseries and to understand how different galaxies fuel star formation! 🌌 Check out their conference video!: youtu.be/ogS6SbOO86M #OrbytsConference2024
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Students from @StBernards_HS along with Fellow @ConnorJBallard from @MSSLSpaceLab have taken a significant step towards understanding the potential to identify life on Mars using microbialites from Lake Salda, Turkey🦠🔬Check it out! youtu.be/W2tLmVKlGck #OrbytsConference2024
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Students from @BlenheimEpsom and Fellow @rjwarrilow from @MSSLSpaceLab embarked on a fascinating project to identify regions on Mars that may have once harboured habitable conditions! Interested? Check out their conference video here! youtu.be/xvLNFnSNBig #OrbytsConference2024
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17 Oct 2024
We have 6 amazing Orbyts space research projects ready for schools in the Warwick/Coventry area, and still a couple spaces. If you're a teacher and would like a scientist to support your students with doing some research, please get in touch. More info: orbyts.org/impact
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3 Oct 2024
Obviously v tough to take - I was really proud of our LEM white paper on solar system X-rays and the @LEMXray proposal felt phenomenally well put together by an amazing team. But @AXISprobe is a really exciting mission and I have fingers firmly crossed for them in the next phase.
NASA announced the results of Step 1 of the Astrophysics Probe competition. Unfortunately @LEMXray was not selected. We want to thank our amazing Team of 300 scientists, engineers, and program managers, administrators, who dedicated 2 years to developing the LEM concept! (1/2)
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NASA announced the results of Step 1 of the Astrophysics Probe competition. Unfortunately @LEMXray was not selected. We want to thank our amazing Team of 300 scientists, engineers, and program managers, administrators, who dedicated 2 years to developing the LEM concept! (1/2)
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28 Aug 2024
This year we'll have @Orbyts1 hubs in Newcastle,Leicester,Warwick/Coventry,Edinburgh,Kent,London and Brum. Where we'll be pairing scientists with schools to support school research projects. If you're a teacher/researcher and you think this sounds fun, we'd love to hear from you!
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28 Aug 2024
If you'd like to find out a bit more you could check out our impact report here: orbyts.org/impact, ping us an email or ping me a DM and I'd be super happy to discuss. For schools: student cohorts taking part need to be at least 50% girls and at least 50% pupil premium/FSM.
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25 Jul 2024
For the last few decades scientists have wondered where Jupiter's magnetospheric cusp is. All the other planets with magnetic fields seemed to have them. It's finally been found :
nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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25 Jul 2024
Wrote this very fast and reading back it feels a bit uncomfortable: Ulysses measurements suggested some crossing into open field line regions and there's lots of smashing theoretical work and auroral studies that have hinted at cusp like signatures.
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