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UK Astronomy Technology Centre@ukatc
7 Jan 2025
You can also find @ukatc on LinkedIn! 🪐🛰️✨

For astronomy news, technology, innovation and insights follow us 👉 linkedin.com/showcase/stfc-…
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UK Astronomy Technology Centre@ukatc
7 Jan 2025
You can also find @ukatc on LinkedIn! 🪐🛰️✨

For astronomy news, technology, innovation and insights follow us 👉 linkedin.com/showcase/stfc-…
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UK Astronomy Technology Centre@ukatc
16 Jan 2025
Congratulations to UK ATC's Dr Rubén Sánchez-Janssen, who has been announced as the new Director of the @INGLaPalma. 🎉 🔭

Find out more 👉ukatc.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/UK-ATC-s…
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UK Astronomy Technology Centre@ukatc
25 Dec 2024
Remembering the amazing moment when the #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope launched on 25 December 2021. 🚀✨

Find out more 👉 ukatc.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/Celebrat…
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Chandra Observatory
@chandraxray
17 Dec 2024
Want this holiday wreath for your front door? You're going to need a bigger door. This new image of star cluster NGC 602 from Chandra & @NASAWebb is about 175 light-years across and it sparkles with the light from thousands of stars.🎀 More: s.si.edu/wreath
This is a composite image of star cluster NGC 602, in vibrant and festive colors. The shape of the star cluster strongly resembles a holiday wreath. The cluster includes a giant dust cloud ring, shown in greens, yellows, blues, and oranges. The green hues and feathery edges of the ring cloud create the appearance of a wreath made of evergreen boughs. Hints of red representing X-rays provide shading, highlighting layers within the wreath-like ring cloud. The image is aglow with specks and dots of colorful, festive light, in blues, golds, whites, oranges, and reds. These lights represent stars within the cluster. Some of the lights gleam with diffraction spikes, while others emit a warm, diffuse glow. Upon closer inspection, many of the glowing specks have spiraling arms, indicating that they are, in fact, distant galaxies.
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UK Astronomy Technology Centre@ukatc
24 Dec 2024
Happy holidays from everyone @UKATC and @RoyalObs! 🎄🎅🎁
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UK Astronomy Technology Centre@ukatc
24 Dec 2024
It has been fantastic working with you @ProfMarkThomson!
Mark Thomson@ProfMarkThomson
16 Dec 2024
View across Edinburgh from the rooftop of the Higgs Centre for Innovation at ⁦@STFC_Matters⁩ ⁦@ukatc⁩ during my final visit as Executive Chair. Tomorrow ⁦@DaresburyLab⁩ although might be hard to compete with today’s view.
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UK Astronomy Technology Centre@ukatc
13 Dec 2024
Last week @SKAO software teams from across Europe got together @UKATC in Edinburgh for the PI25 Planning Week. A productive week sharing ideas with the Buttons, System and Bang development teams. 💻📡

Find out more about UK ATC's role on SKAO 👉ukatc.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/SKAO.aspx
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NASA Webb Telescope
@NASAWebb
12 Dec 2024
It's that time of year, let's make some snowflakes! ❄️

Fold and cut your own using our Webb template: science.nasa.gov/mission/webb/w…
A white paper snowflake with hexagonal cutouts resembling the Webb telescope mirror sits on the top front of a Christmas tree. The tree has other ornaments on it and lights. Behind the tree is Webb-related art, including a letterpress print by Lauren Emritz that says "See the Galaxy and Beyond. James Webb Space Telescope," part of a JWST poster by Veronica Guzzardi that shows an illustration of the golden Webb mirror, and part of a litho by Monkey Minion Press that shows the telescope.
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ESA Webb Telescope
@ESA_Webb
11 Dec 2024
🆕 Webb has found the first actively forming galaxy as lightweight as the young Milky Way! Read more: esawebb.org/news/weic2429/ or 🧵👇
Horizontal split down the middle. At left, thousands of overlapping objects at various distances are spread across this galaxy cluster. A box at bottom right is enlarged on the right half. A central oval identifies the Firefly Sparkle galaxy, a line with 10 dots in various colours.
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UK Astronomy Technology Centre@ukatc
12 Dec 2024
.@STFC_Matters Innovation Clusters & @ESABICUK won the industry-team project category at the Sir Arthur Clarke Awards! 🏆 For their outstanding support of space start-ups across the UK (including @ukatc, @RutherfordApLab & @DaresburyLab).

More info 👉ukri.org/news/stfc-land…
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NASA Webb Telescope
@NASAWebb
11 Dec 2024
Someone struck a match against the night…

Webb discerned distinct star clusters in the Firefly Sparkle galaxy, which existed 600 million years after the big bang - the first discovery of an actively forming galaxy as lightweight as the young Milky Way. go.nasa.gov/3DcqMSc
A zoomed in view of the area around the Firefly Sparkle galaxy. There are two smaller circles flanking a larger oval at the center. The central oval is labeled Firefly Sparkle galaxy. Within it is a long line, roughly pointing from bottom left to top right that contains 10 circular star clusters in pink, purple, and blue. The galaxy to the bottom left is labeled Companion 1 and looks like a bright red dot. At top right, Companion 2 is lighter red and surrounded by a red disk.
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UK Astronomy Technology Centre@ukatc
12 Dec 2024
In case you missed it: the Higgs Centre for Innovation is back after 9 months of renovations and over £400,000 investment via @STFC_Matters.

Find out more 👉higgscentre.org/post/edinburgh…
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UK Astronomy Technology Centre@ukatc
11 Dec 2024
A cold and frosty start @RoyalObs, UK ATC and @PhysAstroEd in Edinburgh this morning. ❄️
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ESO@ESO
10 Dec 2024
How to shape the astronomy of the future?

Explore Expanding Horizons 🧑‍💻, our initiative to invite scientists to share out-of-the box ideas for ESO's next innovative astronomy project 💡🔭

👉 orlo.uk/XZydP

Visual by ESO
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UK Astronomy Technology Centre@ukatc
5 Dec 2024
New @ukatc Director Christophe Dumas chairs the final session at #Appleton24. An informative & productive day connecting with friends & colleagues across the space sector. 👩‍🚀🚀🛰
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UK Astronomy Technology Centre@ukatc
2 Dec 2024
Looking forward to it 👇
RAL Space@RAL_Space_STFC
2 Dec 2024
🚀 The 20th Appleton Space Conference is this Thursday!

Join us online for a programme featuring:
🪐Talks on space weather, astronomy & climate science
🎙️Keynote from Dr. Paul Bate, CEO UK Space Agency
📅5 Dec | 🕘 9:30–17:30
🔗 Register for the webinar: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/667cd604…
Image of the Earth from space, with text overlaid reading: "20th Appleton Space Conference, 5 December 2024, 9:30am to 5:30pm. #Appleton2024"
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Science and Technology Facilities Council@STFC_Matters
27 Nov 2024
We are delighted to announce that @SKAO and STFC have signed a memorandum of understanding with the goal of establishing an SKAO Africa Programme in the next 12 months. 📡🎉

Learn more 👉 skao.int/en/news/591/sk…
Two smiling men signing documents together at a table with two small flags depicting the SKAO and Union Jack in front of them.
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