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The Sky at Night is blasting back onto your screens tonight at 10pm on BBC4 with an exciting episode where we look at some of the engineering that allows us to explore the universe. Join @chrislintott, #MaggieAderinPocock, @Avertedvision and @EngineerDG 🚀 🛰️ #skyatnight
We will be visiting @Skyrora_Ltd, @RAL_Space_STFC, @ClearspaceToday and speaking to @e_astronomer from @RoyalObs
If you aren't able to watch tonight, we will be launching back on to your screens this Thursday @ 7pm on BBC4 🚀 #skyatnight
Catch The Sky at Night at 10pm on BBC4 - join @chrislintott, #DrMaggieAderinPocock and @ExoDransfield as they hunt for asteroids in this month's episode ☄️ and @Avertedvision who explores how to look for the moon…but during the day! 🌖 #skyatnight
We will be speaking with Alan Fitzsimmons from @Queens_Belfast, Simon Green and @Zoe_Emerland from @OpenUniversity and Queenie Chan from @RHULEarthSci
If you aren't able to watch tonight, fear not! This episode will be repeated this Thursday @ 7pm on BBC4 ☄️ #skyatnight
Last night we had the first science-ready image from #JWST, NASA & ESA’s new space telescope. Today, we’re going to do it all again with a press conference at 3.30pm BST revealing the rest of #JWST’s first photo album. (1/n)
Here’s a list of the shots we’re expecting. After the beauty and wonder of last night’s distant galaxies, I’m drooling at the prospect of Stephan’s Quintet in particular (2/n)
As I said last night, I think a lot of us were surprised by the crystal-clear sharpness of the images, which is not what we always expect in infrared images. The giant #JWST mirror really helps, which is why they went to all of that trouble to fold it up for launch (3/n)
We're about an hour away from the release of the first proper images from #JWST, the telescope that launched on Christmas Day. (1/n)
Since then, the team from NASA & ESA have been working hard to commission the instruments and get it ready for science. Today is a milestone in that process. (2/n)
The observatory is already hard at work; all over the world, astronomers are getting their hands on data from its golden mirrors, learning how to use new software to analyse it, and preparing to tell new stories (3/n)
Throughout this #BlackHistoryMonth, we'll be adding to the thread below and highlighting the achievements of the Black scientists, mathematicians and engineers who have made their impact on the modern world. 
Physicist Edward Bouchet was the first African-American to earn a PhD from any American university, earning his doctorate from Yale in 1874. He was among the first 20 Americans to receive a PhD in physics. #BlackHistoryMonth bit.ly/3lCFSSF
Lewis Latimer worked with some of the greatest inventors of the modern era, including Thomas Edison & Alexander Graham Bell. Latimer invented a new form carbon filament which was essential to the invention of light bulbs. #BlackHistoryMonth bit.ly/3iLD8AM
A team led by @jgreaves6 have found what might be signs of life high in Venus' atmosphere. They have detected phospine, a gas which on Earth is produced only by life, in quantities they say are too large to be produced any other way. (1/17)
The discovery was made by using sub-mm (microwave) telescopes @eao_jcmt and @almaobs; phosphine is detected roughly 50km above the surface; parts of the atmosphere have temperature and pressure similar to sea level on Earth (2/17)
The phosphine exists at about 20 parts per billion, which doesn't sound much but which the team's modelling says is ten thousand times more than can be produced by volcanic activity or atmospheric chemistry. Their conclusion - this could be life. (3/17)
