Rhys Williams
@astrorhysmas.bsky.social
Curious about all things astronomy and space. Avid reader. History buff. Outdoorsy.
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Well it's not every day that you get to stand on the site of a brand new Observatory! This is Clatteringshaws loch, in the Galloway Forest #DarkSky Park, home of the 🏴Scottish Dark Sky Observatory. Construction starts soon and like a phoenix SDSO will rise from the ashes! Re-opening mid-2027. 🥳🔭🧪
October 18, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Well it's not every day that you get to stand on the site of a brand new Observatory! This is Clatteringshaws loch, in the Galloway Forest #DarkSky Park, home of the 🏴Scottish Dark Sky Observatory. Construction starts soon and like a phoenix SDSO will rise from the ashes! Re-opening mid-2027. 🥳🔭🧪
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Today I salute Elizabeth Brown (1830-1899) who "with the gentle persistency which characterised her...would not take 'No' for an answer", was a key architect in the founding of the British Astronomical Association at a time when the Royal Astronomical Society was not admitting women! Pure legend 🤩👩🔬🔭
October 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Today I salute Elizabeth Brown (1830-1899) who "with the gentle persistency which characterised her...would not take 'No' for an answer", was a key architect in the founding of the British Astronomical Association at a time when the Royal Astronomical Society was not admitting women! Pure legend 🤩👩🔬🔭
She's obviously taking fossil fuel lobby cash. The things that some will do when they're presented with a nice wad of cash...
July 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
She's obviously taking fossil fuel lobby cash. The things that some will do when they're presented with a nice wad of cash...
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We haven’t been able to observe the Sun’s poles. ☀️
Until now…
With Solar Orbiter, we can, for the first time, observe how the solar wind flows around the poles - unlocking vital clues about the 11-year solar cycle, which is key to advancing space weather forecasting. ☀️
Learn more 👇
Until now…
With Solar Orbiter, we can, for the first time, observe how the solar wind flows around the poles - unlocking vital clues about the 11-year solar cycle, which is key to advancing space weather forecasting. ☀️
Learn more 👇
Ready to see the Sun like we never have before? 😎
#SolarOrbiter has just released the first views ever of the Sun’s poles!
Thanks to its newly tilted orbit, the mission will uncover details about the Sun’s magnetic field, the solar cycle & space weather 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
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#SolarOrbiter has just released the first views ever of the Sun’s poles!
Thanks to its newly tilted orbit, the mission will uncover details about the Sun’s magnetic field, the solar cycle & space weather 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
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June 11, 2025 at 2:41 PM
We haven’t been able to observe the Sun’s poles. ☀️
Until now…
With Solar Orbiter, we can, for the first time, observe how the solar wind flows around the poles - unlocking vital clues about the 11-year solar cycle, which is key to advancing space weather forecasting. ☀️
Learn more 👇
Until now…
With Solar Orbiter, we can, for the first time, observe how the solar wind flows around the poles - unlocking vital clues about the 11-year solar cycle, which is key to advancing space weather forecasting. ☀️
Learn more 👇
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Fifty years ago this month, the ESA Convention was signed at the Conference of Plenipotentiaries in Paris - 30 May 1975 - and ESA was operational the following day. But that wasn’t the last of the procedures that had to be followed... 🤔
Read the full story from #ESAArchives 👇
#50YearsOfESA
Read the full story from #ESAArchives 👇
#50YearsOfESA
May 21, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Fifty years ago this month, the ESA Convention was signed at the Conference of Plenipotentiaries in Paris - 30 May 1975 - and ESA was operational the following day. But that wasn’t the last of the procedures that had to be followed... 🤔
Read the full story from #ESAArchives 👇
#50YearsOfESA
Read the full story from #ESAArchives 👇
#50YearsOfESA
They made the same egregious mistake as we did in Britain, closing large parts of the railway to favour the car. Only now they're having to spend huge amounts of money building a new rail network. How stupid is that!
March 26, 2025 at 7:13 PM
They made the same egregious mistake as we did in Britain, closing large parts of the railway to favour the car. Only now they're having to spend huge amounts of money building a new rail network. How stupid is that!
I would hope that the same is done to Coulmbia as what is being done to Tesla. When the money dries up.... They'll change their tune.
March 23, 2025 at 3:13 PM
I would hope that the same is done to Coulmbia as what is being done to Tesla. When the money dries up.... They'll change their tune.
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I’m so sad to hear the news that Richard Fortey is no longer with us. He was a brilliant palaeontologist, writer and tv presenter - and a lovely person. I had the pleasure of interviewing him and working with him. He was so passionate about sharing his science.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Richard Fortey obituary
Palaeontologist at the Natural History Museum who was also a bestselling science writer and accomplished TV presenter
www.theguardian.com
March 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
I’m so sad to hear the news that Richard Fortey is no longer with us. He was a brilliant palaeontologist, writer and tv presenter - and a lovely person. I had the pleasure of interviewing him and working with him. He was so passionate about sharing his science.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
A brilliant educator, so interesting and informative. He will be greatly missed.
March 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
A brilliant educator, so interesting and informative. He will be greatly missed.
Netanyahu never intended to honour the ceasefire, it was all a charade. People like him, Trump, Putin and other warmongers always end badly.
March 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Netanyahu never intended to honour the ceasefire, it was all a charade. People like him, Trump, Putin and other warmongers always end badly.
Piers Corbyn??? That tells me everything I need to know about this individual. How far too many have fallen!
March 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Piers Corbyn??? That tells me everything I need to know about this individual. How far too many have fallen!
Krasnov has been fully activated...
March 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Krasnov has been fully activated...
It's a shame, but regarding Athena, some seem to think that the tall and slender design has been a factor in both failures.
March 8, 2025 at 5:47 PM
It's a shame, but regarding Athena, some seem to think that the tall and slender design has been a factor in both failures.
The 25th needs to be invoked, that man and his henchman are extremely dangerous people who need getting rid of, period.
February 22, 2025 at 5:25 PM
The 25th needs to be invoked, that man and his henchman are extremely dangerous people who need getting rid of, period.
Why are people not aware of this, it is so blatant!
February 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Why are people not aware of this, it is so blatant!
It's a small step, however it isn't enough. Full freedom of movement must be restored, we are European and always will be.
February 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
It's a small step, however it isn't enough. Full freedom of movement must be restored, we are European and always will be.
What hold does Elon Musk have over the Royal Society? I cannot find a single reason for them to continue his Fellowship, indeed I think they should remove it from him post haste.
February 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
What hold does Elon Musk have over the Royal Society? I cannot find a single reason for them to continue his Fellowship, indeed I think they should remove it from him post haste.
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Walking in to NASA’s JPL today as a woman in science leadership felt almost like a protest. They can take us off the webpages and the walls, but we will still be here, absolutely crushing it, and supporting our community while we do it.
Happy International Day of Women in Science, everyone.
Happy International Day of Women in Science, everyone.
February 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Walking in to NASA’s JPL today as a woman in science leadership felt almost like a protest. They can take us off the webpages and the walls, but we will still be here, absolutely crushing it, and supporting our community while we do it.
Happy International Day of Women in Science, everyone.
Happy International Day of Women in Science, everyone.
Hmmm, they can't even have the balls to set up a concentration camp on mainland US, yeah, let's do it on a little corner of Cuba, you know, the country they sanction the fuck out of...
February 11, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Hmmm, they can't even have the balls to set up a concentration camp on mainland US, yeah, let's do it on a little corner of Cuba, you know, the country they sanction the fuck out of...
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This is a particularly lovely animation of our gravitational lens discovery, posted by the ESA Director General 🧪🔭
🌌Einstein Ring Discovered by @esa.int's Euclid in galaxy NGC 6505 "just" 590 million light-years from Earth, which relatively speaking, is quite close! The newly discovered ring is made up of light from a previously unobserved galaxy 4.42 billion light-years away.
February 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This is a particularly lovely animation of our gravitational lens discovery, posted by the ESA Director General 🧪🔭
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Very happy to have been part of the @ec-euclid.bsky.social discovery of a jaw-droppingly beautiful gravitational lens in our cosmic back yard. Here's an explainer video I made for the @openuniversity.bsky.social and I'll post a few more links in this thread 🔭🧪
February 10, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Very happy to have been part of the @ec-euclid.bsky.social discovery of a jaw-droppingly beautiful gravitational lens in our cosmic back yard. Here's an explainer video I made for the @openuniversity.bsky.social and I'll post a few more links in this thread 🔭🧪
Indeed! The bloke was notorious for it...
February 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Indeed! The bloke was notorious for it...
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i know rose and adore her.
her story is so admirable and inspiring.
this is what they’re taking from us, these are the stories they’re erasing.
her story is so admirable and inspiring.
this is what they’re taking from us, these are the stories they’re erasing.
This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake
web.archive.org/web/20231206...
web.archive.org/web/20231206...
NASA Intern Found Hope in the Moon - NASA
Lee esta historia en español aquí
web.archive.org
February 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
i know rose and adore her.
her story is so admirable and inspiring.
this is what they’re taking from us, these are the stories they’re erasing.
her story is so admirable and inspiring.
this is what they’re taking from us, these are the stories they’re erasing.
I sincerely hope these fascists are stopped and stopped quickly. What is happening right now is a stain on the conscience of the US. Solidarity with you guys!
February 9, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I sincerely hope these fascists are stopped and stopped quickly. What is happening right now is a stain on the conscience of the US. Solidarity with you guys!