Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans

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🥳 Incredibly well deserved. Sending you a massive high-five. We'll need to properly whoop together the next time we see each other in person.

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A poster for "Telescope Radio: Live music and star gazing" A star map is the background with a beautifully hand-drawn image of a victorian telescope overlaid, plus the moon.

Huge congratulations to the #Stirling Astronomical Society on their 40th birthday! 🥳

If you're in the area, do join them for a cosmic celebration with music and stargazing (weather Gods willing).

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Stirling Highland Hotel: Friday 13th March
Entry is free 🎟️: www.citizenticket.com/events/the-s...

Ask the Astronomer Royal! YouTube video by Glasgow Science Centre

Absolutely super questions from Scotland's Primary schools today. Huge thanks to @glasgowscience.bsky.social, @glasgowplanetarium.bsky.social & the ever-amazing @ninaneedsspace.bsky.social for organising this fab online event.

Yes - we did discuss Aliens! 👽

🍿: www.youtube.com/live/7D_XUDx...

Environmental Impacts of Food Production What are the environmental impacts of food production? How do we reduce the impacts of agriculture on the environment?

I don't know - but looking around the resources linked to the UN figure, I found this awesome page. Looks like it is indeed to do with the farmed prawns 🤷‍♀️

ourworldindata.org/environmenta...

A bar chart showing the kilograms of greenhouse gas emissions per 1000 kilocalories. Shellfish, Beef and Lamb emit the most. Breads, legumes and nuts the least. From: https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/science/climate-issues/food

Just finished an audio clip for a kids podcast, sharing my top tip for "saving the planet". After double-checking they were sure they didn't want to hear about the planetary defence team's plans for diverting killer asteroids in space, I decided to go with this data from the UN. #EatVeggie #EatVegan

Sending you the biggest of virtual hugs from Scotland 💔

Select committees Well, the fight to stop the decimation of particle, astro and nuclear physics continues. The House of Commons Science, Innovation and Technology select committee session I mentioned in the previous…

Some thoughts after two parliamentary committee hearings
lifeandphysics.com/2026/03/08/s...
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Oh well spotted Tanya - yes you are 💯right.

Happy Birthday Gaia 🤗

The Hubble Deep field - teeming with galaxies

The moon - bright and round covered in craters and mare (seas)

Kabloooeee - a supernova explosion

My favourite observatory: the vera Rubin Observatory looking very sci-fi high on the top of a mountain at sunset.

More pictures you say? Yes we definitely need more 🤩 🔭

🔊 Calling all Primary School teachers!🎢

Tues 11th Mar @11am GMT: Join me & @glasgowscience.bsky.social online where we'll be answering your questions live! Just getting my bank of pictures ready in anticipation of what the kids will ask 🤗🔭

🍿: curiousabout.glasgowsciencecentre.org/live-session...

If your pop-sci book shelf is looking for a new addition - Emma Chapman's Radio Universe is coming out this week. It's genuinely delightful and well worth picking up a copy!

👉@dreochapman.bsky.social
📖: www.waterstones.com/book/radio-u...

Officially jealous - gorgeous! 🤩

Pink sunrise sky looking at old tenement blocks. The moon is just setting over some chimney stacks and a seagull has positioned itself perfectly right in front of it.

Good morning Moon 😍
Happy weekend everyone. 🔭

I'm not entirely sure Neil - but please do encourage your daughter to send the centre an e-mail (contacts on the above web link). They are a super nice bunch of really dedicated people and it's in a really lovely part of Scotland.

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Remember "NASA makes 'emergency' decision as chances of 'city-destroying' asteroid hitting Earth rise to 1-in-43", that turned out to not be on a direct collision course after all?

Well disappointingly it's not going to crash into the moon either. Party-pooper ☹️ 🔭🧪
science.nasa.gov/blogs/planet...

Awesome

Be that H of HR fame? 🤩

CAREERS

Calling the #scicomm community, and anyone looking for a new career in bonny Scotland. New job alert for an Education & Learning Officer at the fantastic #Kirkcudbright Dark Space Planetarium. Application deadline: 27th March. 🔭🎢

www.darkspaceplanetarium.org/explore/care...

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Two Geese standing on a sunny wall looking at the camera. Behind them is the sky line of London and the river Thames. The sky is clear with not a cloud in the sky.

Two metal grumpy looking fish adorning a lamppost with a weed growing perfectly half-way between the,

London reflections from the 🚄home
* It was proper hot, ti-shirt weather, but everyone was wearing coats 🤔 #SpotTheScot
* When you smile at passers-by, very few smile back (say "morning" and you really freak them out 😂)
* Lots of bikes everywhere - very well done Londoners
* Everyone looks very chic👌

Lots of lovely messages from colleagues <beams with pride>

"You only missed out on one opportunity I think. A quick dance around the table to the pretty loud music whilst answering the questions would have demonstrated our flexibility as a community reacting to changing circumstances." 😂

😂 colliding black holes sending waves rippling through spacetime - could anyone really cut funding to such awesome mind-blowing science?

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Well said Alan!

Anyone watching the UKGov hearing on the STFC cuts yesterday would have also heard the rumba cha-cha-cha music in the background. Turns out it was a dance class for MPs lead by National Treasure and legendary icon Angela Ripon. The Sun newspaper was not impressed!

www.thesun.co.uk/news/3840795...