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Had such a great time talking with @mrdillypresents about Astrophysics for Supervillains! I even got my evil alter-ego drawn by @chrisriddell50 🤩
@dkbooks
I'm doing a thing!
(Also they are doing a giveaway. Free books!)
📢#GIVEAWAY! x 3 copies of ASTROPHYSICS FOR SUPERVILLAINS by @Astronomy_Matt Enter Follow, RT, Like. Ends 25/9
👋 Meet Matt & more for Mr Dilly Meets free online Heroes & Villains Event Tues 24th Sept 11am ➡️ Book tinyurl.com/43hn7m6d
#edutwitter #giveawayalert #schools
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📢#Schools! #Teachers! #Librarians! Join me for some Heroes & Villains #creativity, #literacy, #poetry & #science fun with @chrisriddell50 @AnaBooks @MeggittPhillips @ajkecojevic & @Astronomy_Matt
Book now 24 Sept 11am: tinyurl.com/mr4atjb9
#edutwitter #kidlit #BookTwitter
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This year, @GirtonCollege celebrates 100 years since it received its Royal Charter from King George V 📜
These photos from the early 1900s show students, Fellows, and The Mistress and Governors studying in the College library and settling into academic life.
#ThrowbackThursday
ALT A black and white photo showing 11 women in Victorian dress standing outside Girton College
ALT A sepia photo showing women in Victorian dress in a library at Girton College
ALT A sepia photo showing 5 young women in Victorian dress standing outside Girton College
ALT A sepia photo showing 7 older women in Victorian dress standing for a formal photo at Girton College
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Right now, #BepiColombo is just 165 km from Mercury's surface. This is the closest the spacecraft has ever been, and the closest it will ever get.
Having just passed the planet's north pole, the spacecraft will soon capture its first-ever images of the south pole. Stay tuned!
Cool!
⚠️☄️Incoming!
A roughly 1 metre asteroid will strike Earth’s atmosphere over the Philippines near Luzon Island at 17:08 UTC today, 4 September.
The object is harmless, but people in the area may see a spectacular fireball!
Discovered this morning by the Catalina Sky Survey, this is just the ninth asteroid that humankind has ever spotted before impact.
Follow @esaoperations for more updates.
ALT Image of the path of a meteor shown in green and yellow on top of a Google Map image of the the Philippines near Luzon Island shown in dark green contrasting with the deep blue of the ocean.
🤩
Lynda's on her way back from Norfolk and dropped into one of her favourite bookshops, @DissPublishShop.
So she just had to bring a couple of beauties from @TomPercivalsays, @Erika_McGann & Toni Galmés, Ian Billings & Hunt Emerson, and @Astronomy_Matt & @NathanReed_Illo home too!
Wooooo Chandra lives 🛰️
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Thanks for featuring Astrophysics for Supervillains 😀🚀
'Astrophysics for Supervillains'
by Matt Bothwell @Astronomy_Matt
Based on real questions from curious children, this book provides a fact-based guid to the universe
new from @dkbooks
available @blackwellbooks
📖 sample to peek isnide and share
jellybooks.com/cloud_reader/…
It was so lovely to be back at the Royal Institution to help launch my new book 😀 So many keen future scientists with amazing questions about space.
@Ri_Science @dkbooks
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We have two public talks coming up, which you can watch live on YouTube!
1/ Two and a Half Centuries of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Cambridge, 23 July at 7pm
youtube.com/watch?v=lZacY2Un…
Phosphine on Venus seems to be real! A potential biosignature! On Venus! The Venus Life Finder mission can’t come soon enough…
Interesting stuff from Dr Dave Clements of @imperialcollege in the #Venus session at #NAM2024.
He shares preliminary findings which "strengthen" evidence of phosphine in the planet's clouds, including detections of the potential biomarker deeper in a warmer area of the clouds.
ALT Dr Dave Clements (shown remotely in the top left corner of the projector screen) giving a talk on Venus at NAM 2024.
Great end of year assembly with Y6 and Y7 @LitchamSchool, talking about Astrophysics for Supervillains!
So many keen future scientists (or future supervillains…) getting books signed 🚀
