Friday Fun:📣 New outreach poster: ESA’s Vigil Mission ☀️💨🛰️💨🌍 The Space-weather “reporter” will monitor the Sun from the Lagrange point 5, reporting 24/7 solar activity days before it reaches Earth. esa.int/var/esa/storage/imag…

Proud to have contributed to the new SCOSTEP roadmap 2026–30! SCOSTEP = the global body coordinating research on Sun–Earth connections. The new programme, COURSE, lays out scientific priorities for the next 5 years. Exciting times ahead for heliophysics! link.springer.com/article/10…

Proud to see ESA’s Vigil mission featured in the CRO Forum’s new report on space-related risks. From L5, Vigil will boost early warning for solar storms — a key step for protecting critical infrastructure on Earth ☀️💨🛰️🌍 📄 thecroforum.org/wp-content/u…

Here's a picture of me *not* driving an imaginary car 🚗 — but explaining how the consistent, calibrated nature of Vigil’s ☀️💨🛰️🌍data products will make them ideal for training and deployment with machine learning and AI forecasting tools at ESWW2025: events.spacepole.be/event/22…

I like making confuse-o-grams that include *all* the details. Help me make this more confusing - what can I add that I'm missing?

🎉Happy Hamilton Day! Sir William Hamilton gave us Hamiltonian mechanics⚙️ His formulation H=T+V underpins orbital dynamics, spacecraft trajectories, and plasma physics No Hamiltonian Mechanics→No L5 Lagrange point→No perfect spot for a space-weather mission-ESA’s Vigil🌞💨🌍

Another day, another solar and heliophysics first — @ORB_KSB & @esa created a unique eclipse in space! 🌍☀️🌘 The 1st🏅 formation-flying coronagraph: two spacecraft flying 150 m apart-perfectly aligned to block the Sun and reveal its hot corona More info: esa.int/Enabling_Support/Spa…

Looking at X-ray Flux Monitors today—instruments that detect solar X-ray bursts. Used in #SpaceWeather☀️☔ studies to understand solar☀️flares that can disrupt comms📡, satellites & aviation✈️. Attached X-ray light curve from 2014 shows confined flares-no associated eruptions

The Sun 🌞 — our source of space weather ☔ — needs constant watching. Who knows what it’ll throw at us next? @ESA #Vigil ☀️👁️‍🗨️🌍. imgs.xkcd.com/comics/check_e…

Preparing the camera for the eclipse