We are pleased to announce the “Discs on the Exe” conference on the 27-31 July 2026, at Exeter, UK. It will cover observations and theory of discs, ranging from disc formation to planet formation and debris discs. Sign up to our email list forms.office.com/e/YCfLCJCz2C
discsontheexe.org 🔭🪐🥏

Here is asteroid (52246) Donaldjohanson as seen by Lucy’s LORRI camera! It’s a contact binary/bi-lobate asteroid 🎉🎊

Image taken on April 20, 2025 from a range of approximately 1100 km.

Credit: NASA/Goddard/SwRI/Johns Hopkins APL/NOIRLab

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#PlanetSci #SciComm 🧪

Can’t even make their own MAGAhats

From Joe Williams: Why should we give more context to the incredible contributions to STEM by exceptional women? And do you need to be exceptional to be successful? Find out in this interview with Dr Claire Davies! 🔭✨☄️
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Media in 2025: "Rare planetary parade, it's the last chance to see this until 2040!"

Media in 2023: "Incredibly rare planetary parade, last chance to see this until 2040!"

Media in 2022: "Rare planet parade, last chance to see this until 2041!"

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1/ ☄️ Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) is gracing our skies, and we’d like to share some amazing images from ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile!

This stunning shot by our friend Yuri Beletsky, with the comet next to an Auxiliary Telescope, is today's Astronomy Picture of the Day. Congrats, Yuri! 🔭 🧪

Every astronomer the first time they do reduce radio observations 🥴
#radioastronomy #astronomy

The Kuiper Belt contains the frozen leftovers of the formation of our Solar System. Using ALMA astronomers can observe similar belts around other stars, and they come in all shapes and sizes! What do they tell us about the formation of planetary systems?

Find out: ➡️ www.eso.org/public/blog/...
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Paper day!
REASONS ALMA and SMA survey results: the largest sample of 74 resolved exocomet belts revealing the structure and evolution of extrasolar Kuiper-belt analogs, the ice reservoirs of planetary systems! 🧊
See @eso.org blog below, paper here: tinyurl.com/reas25
+ associated press releases! 🔭

Scientists reveal structure of 74 exocomet belts orbiting nearby stars

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PhD position deadline on Monday 20th!

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🚨 Job alert 🚨
1-2 postdoc + 1-2 PhD ERC positions to join my group at @exeter.ac.uk in 2025 and work on the formation and dynamical evolution of planetary systems with a focus on debris discs ☄️
Postdoc app deadline 1 Jan tinyurl.com/2brdaruy
PhD app deadline 20 Jan tinyurl.com/4d37f55k

🚨🔔 Job alert 🔔 🚨

ERC positions in our E-BEANS team @tcddublin.bsky.social ☘️ on exoplanetary systems (disks/long period planets/volatile delivery), starting Sep ‘25! ☄️🪐💿 🔭

3-yr Fellow: tinyurl.com/5n77ucnk
4-yr PhD: tinyurl.com/bdb3xyp3

Deadline Jan 6th ⏰
Please spread the word!

Can a 30 m boulder move by itself? The answer on comets seems to be yes! We've known for a while that a boulder on #comet 67P moved by about 140 m. We didn't know precisely when this happened and why. A new study might shed some light.

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@bot.astronomy.blue signup

📢 3-year Postdoc opportunity to work simulating how exoKuiper belts form in protoplanetary discs with me and Seb Krijt at Exeter University, using constraints from ALMA and JWST. Flexible starting date in 2024. Application deadline 1/1/24. DM any questions 😉 jobregister.aas.org/ad/aae7a582