Chris Pattison

🌌✨ Stargazing 2026 - FREE tickets now available! ✨🌌 Join us on 28th January at University of Portsmouth for: 🌠 Talks from astronomers 🌕 Telescopes (weather permitting!) 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Fun for all ages 🎟️ FREE – book now: eventbrite.co.uk/e/stargazing-2… 🔗 More info: port.ac.uk/stargazing

👀 Our scientists used @ESA_Gaia data to craft the most accurate 3D map of star-forming regions in the Milky Way! 🌌 🔗esa.int/Science_Explor…

O Christmas tree, o cosmic tree 🎄 Located about 2,500 light-years from Earth, NGC 2264 is a cluster of young stars between one and five million years old. The stars appear as blue and white lights surrounded by swirls of gas—the “pine needles” of the tree—with green representing light in the visible spectrum. Learn more:go.nasa.gov/3MN1xdX

Oh, the lights are shining so brightly everywhere ✨ As we wrap up 2025, Webb captured a star-studded glimpse into Westerlund 2, a cosmic nursery that reminds us to look forward to the beauty of new beginnings. esawebb.org/images/potm251…

Our @ESA_JUICE spacecraft captured comet #3IATLAS during its active phase, showing its glowing coma, plasma tail, and maybe even a dust tail. The full data will arrive in February, but here is a sneak preview from JUICE's navigation camera. More info 👉 esa.int/ESA_Multimedia…

Webb took a look at the Sagittarius B2 molecular cloud, the most massive, and active star-forming region in our galaxy, located only a few hundred light years from our central black hole. Why is it so much more active than the rest of the galactic center? go.nasa.gov/46lurcz

Looking like a cosmic double-bladed lightsaber, Webb captured enormous jets of gas 8 light-years across erupting from a massive baby star. This rare sighting is helping us better understand how massive stars form. science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/…

🆕 Our ESA/Webb Picture of the Month captures another cosmic butterfly! 🦋 Read more: esawebb.org/images/potm250… or 🧵👇

Be a team player ✅ We recently observed comet 3I/ATLAS with our Near-Infrared Spectrograph instrument, adding to the data collected by @NASAHubble and the recently launched SPHEREx mission. science.nasa.gov/blogs/3iatlas/…

It is not aliens. Again. “As a theoretical astrophysicist crashing the field [of planetary science], Loeb is unburdened by the obvious similarities of 3I/ATLAS to all other comets.” Details in the amusing read below by Steve Desch. @steve.desch/theres-no-i-in-team-but-there-is-one-in-aliens-c4cdf487b5ef" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@steve.desch/t…

Perseid Meteor Shower PEAKS TONIGHT! There should be quite a few shooting stars that are quite easy to spot, and it will be even if you can find a nice dark spot! Stay safe team, and clear skies to you all! youtu.be/J9b8cdsBZIs #perseids2025 #perseidmeteorshower

ESA's Hera mission has spotted its first asteroids! Hera is on the way to the Didymos binary asteroid system to explore the aftermath of humankind's first attempt to move an asteroid. Though faint, these observations are very encouraging for the performance of Hera's camera.

Interesting comparison of Euclid vs. Rubin imaging - first one I've seen! arxiv.org/abs/2507.01942

🚨 New Citizen Science Alert! 🚨 Introducing Rubin Comet Catchers – the first public project using real data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory! 🧵

Science Magazine discusses the potential impact of proposed budget cuts on our operation science.org/content/articl… by @hadriancho

Some of my favourite shots from the BBC‘s Wimbledon coverage 😉🌓

Today marks 2 years since the launch of #ESAEuclid 🎉 Join us in celebrating by rewatching the birthday video from last year, while we recap some of the milestones from this past year: 🔴 The Euclid Q1 data release (cosmos.esa.int/web/euclid/euc…) 🔴 The ESLAB Euclid Symposium 2025 (cosmos.esa.int/web/euclid-esl…) 🔴 The first page of Euclid's great cosmic atlas (esa.int/Science_Explor…) 🔴 The Euclid Galaxy Zoo citizen science project (esa.int/Science_Explor…) 🔴 The discovery of the Einstein ring (esa.int/Science_Explor…) 🎉 Happy birthday to our #DarkUniverse 🕵️ detective

Do you love space and hot drinks? Or know someone who does? Well, we're selling some merch for the first time, including mugs! The art is all done by my friend Elena, and it's AMAZING! Check out all the products here (they ship to most places!): chris-pattison-shop.fourthwall.com/collections/all

500,000 images from @NASAWebb were released and we need YOUR help in identifying them. Check out @DoNASAScience’s new project GalaxyZoo. Details below ⬇️

Huge news for the gravitational wave community