Leo Enright
@ollopa11.bsky.social
"The Guy from Irish TV" at NASA for 50 years (and counting)! Ex Foreign Hack at BBC News & RTE News; now see/hear me live on space on BBC, RTE, Newstalk FM @aljazeera.com etc
Posted from a bar in the Cape Canaveral area, strictly without comment.
November 7, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Posted from a bar in the Cape Canaveral area, strictly without comment.
Per @nasawatch.bsky.social in the other place, this was dumped in a corridor at GSFC with the sort of note you see on a used car! There's even a phone number.
It is a full scale model of Relay-1 , an early US telecom satellite that broadcast news of the Kennedy assassination into Europe!
It is a full scale model of Relay-1 , an early US telecom satellite that broadcast news of the Kennedy assassination into Europe!
November 5, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Per @nasawatch.bsky.social in the other place, this was dumped in a corridor at GSFC with the sort of note you see on a used car! There's even a phone number.
It is a full scale model of Relay-1 , an early US telecom satellite that broadcast news of the Kennedy assassination into Europe!
It is a full scale model of Relay-1 , an early US telecom satellite that broadcast news of the Kennedy assassination into Europe!
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President Trump just posted on Truth Social that he is nominating Jared Isaacman to be NASA Administrator (again).
November 4, 2025 at 11:04 PM
President Trump just posted on Truth Social that he is nominating Jared Isaacman to be NASA Administrator (again).
A Republican commentator weighs in on the NY mayor election
@bbclivenews24.bsky.social
......... from DINGLE! That's the Other Voices logo behind her. (Nov 28-30. Ticket details in ALT)
@bbclivenews24.bsky.social
......... from DINGLE! That's the Other Voices logo behind her. (Nov 28-30. Ticket details in ALT)
November 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
A Republican commentator weighs in on the NY mayor election
@bbclivenews24.bsky.social
......... from DINGLE! That's the Other Voices logo behind her. (Nov 28-30. Ticket details in ALT)
@bbclivenews24.bsky.social
......... from DINGLE! That's the Other Voices logo behind her. (Nov 28-30. Ticket details in ALT)
Did not expect one of the best paragraphs I’d read about baseball would come from an Irish newspaper
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
www.irishexaminer.com/sport-column...
November 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
This remarkable image from Athy, Ireland, shows the Falcon 9 upper stage itself as it vents fuel. These ventings are common, but seeing the rocket stage isn't. Pic by award-winning snapper @niallcarsonpa.bsky.social (not attributed @news.rte.ie 😠) tinyurl.com/RTEspaceX
@planet4589.bsky.social
@planet4589.bsky.social
October 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This remarkable image from Athy, Ireland, shows the Falcon 9 upper stage itself as it vents fuel. These ventings are common, but seeing the rocket stage isn't. Pic by award-winning snapper @niallcarsonpa.bsky.social (not attributed @news.rte.ie 😠) tinyurl.com/RTEspaceX
@planet4589.bsky.social
@planet4589.bsky.social
Is breá liom an leagan digiteach gan smál de "The Last Waltz" anocht. Is beagnach ealaíontóirí Ceanadacha iad na chéad 45 nóiméad 😉
Absolutely loving the flawless digital version of "The Last Waltz" on @tg4.bsky.social tonight. The first 45 mins is almost totally Canadian artists 😉
Absolutely loving the flawless digital version of "The Last Waltz" on @tg4.bsky.social tonight. The first 45 mins is almost totally Canadian artists 😉
October 28, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Is breá liom an leagan digiteach gan smál de "The Last Waltz" anocht. Is beagnach ealaíontóirí Ceanadacha iad na chéad 45 nóiméad 😉
Absolutely loving the flawless digital version of "The Last Waltz" on @tg4.bsky.social tonight. The first 45 mins is almost totally Canadian artists 😉
Absolutely loving the flawless digital version of "The Last Waltz" on @tg4.bsky.social tonight. The first 45 mins is almost totally Canadian artists 😉
This remarkable spy satellite image of Dublin was taken a week before Ireland began to change (very, very slowly) forever. The "Bishop and the Nightie" controversy in February 1966 was a landmark moment.
@spacefromspace.com
spacefromspace.com/declassified...
www.rte.ie/archives/exh...
@spacefromspace.com
spacefromspace.com/declassified...
www.rte.ie/archives/exh...
Dublin, Ireland - Feb 19, 1966
A high resolution declassified KH-7 GAMBIT spy satellite image of Dublin, Ireland from February 19, 1966.
spacefromspace.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:07 AM
This remarkable spy satellite image of Dublin was taken a week before Ireland began to change (very, very slowly) forever. The "Bishop and the Nightie" controversy in February 1966 was a landmark moment.
@spacefromspace.com
spacefromspace.com/declassified...
www.rte.ie/archives/exh...
@spacefromspace.com
spacefromspace.com/declassified...
www.rte.ie/archives/exh...
I don't post on politics. But I do post on beer. 😜
October 25, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I don't post on politics. But I do post on beer. 😜
The German Broadcasting Association reacts with dismay and sadness to the attack on a media production company in the Gaza Strip, which works on behalf of ZDF, among others.
Chairman Mika Beuster: "Why the attack despite the ceasefire? And why were journalists targeted?" @nujofficial.bsky.social
Chairman Mika Beuster: "Why the attack despite the ceasefire? And why were journalists targeted?" @nujofficial.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
The German Broadcasting Association reacts with dismay and sadness to the attack on a media production company in the Gaza Strip, which works on behalf of ZDF, among others.
Chairman Mika Beuster: "Why the attack despite the ceasefire? And why were journalists targeted?" @nujofficial.bsky.social
Chairman Mika Beuster: "Why the attack despite the ceasefire? And why were journalists targeted?" @nujofficial.bsky.social
What an absolute buzz today to hear speakers at a big Mars Climate conference here in Paris cite important recent work by an USGS scientist who THREE WEEKS AGO was selected by NASA to join the 2025 astronaut candidate class.
Gene Shoemaker would be very, very pleased.
Gene Shoemaker would be very, very pleased.
Sol 738 Update On Curiosity From Lauren Edgar: Pahrump Hills http://astrogeology.usgs.gov/news/astrogeology/sol-738-update-on-curiosity-from-msl-scientist-lauren-edgar-pahrump-hills // map by Phil Stooke http://t.co/d3axtGD5UI
October 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
What an absolute buzz today to hear speakers at a big Mars Climate conference here in Paris cite important recent work by an USGS scientist who THREE WEEKS AGO was selected by NASA to join the 2025 astronaut candidate class.
Gene Shoemaker would be very, very pleased.
Gene Shoemaker would be very, very pleased.
Reposted by Leo Enright
🌙 Get ready for Samhain agus Science 2025 — Halloween fun with a scientific spark! 🔬
Join us for a spellbinding series of talks and events where myth meets methodology 👻🌌
🎟️ Tickets available now here: www.eventbrite.com/cc/samhain-a...!
#DIAS85 #DIASDiscovers
Join us for a spellbinding series of talks and events where myth meets methodology 👻🌌
🎟️ Tickets available now here: www.eventbrite.com/cc/samhain-a...!
#DIAS85 #DIASDiscovers
October 13, 2025 at 10:23 AM
🌙 Get ready for Samhain agus Science 2025 — Halloween fun with a scientific spark! 🔬
Join us for a spellbinding series of talks and events where myth meets methodology 👻🌌
🎟️ Tickets available now here: www.eventbrite.com/cc/samhain-a...!
#DIAS85 #DIASDiscovers
Join us for a spellbinding series of talks and events where myth meets methodology 👻🌌
🎟️ Tickets available now here: www.eventbrite.com/cc/samhain-a...!
#DIAS85 #DIASDiscovers
Should every presidential candidate over 65 be required to do a physical? (This candidate is 68)
October 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Should every presidential candidate over 65 be required to do a physical? (This candidate is 68)
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Oooh the Nobel Prize is out today, so it's time for my yearly round of ignoring that news and reading about many of the women who were snubbed of the prize in the past and who the Nobel Prize committee refuses to apologise for. 🧪🔭
October 7, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Oooh the Nobel Prize is out today, so it's time for my yearly round of ignoring that news and reading about many of the women who were snubbed of the prize in the past and who the Nobel Prize committee refuses to apologise for. 🧪🔭
Reposted by Leo Enright
First images of comet #3I/ATLAS from Europe's Mars orbiters 😍
Observing the comet from 30 million km away, #ExoMars reveals the halo of gas and dust surrounding the comet's nucleus.
Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🔭🧪
Observing the comet from 30 million km away, #ExoMars reveals the halo of gas and dust surrounding the comet's nucleus.
Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🔭🧪
October 7, 2025 at 2:51 PM
First images of comet #3I/ATLAS from Europe's Mars orbiters 😍
Observing the comet from 30 million km away, #ExoMars reveals the halo of gas and dust surrounding the comet's nucleus.
Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🔭🧪
Observing the comet from 30 million km away, #ExoMars reveals the halo of gas and dust surrounding the comet's nucleus.
Read more 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
🔭🧪
It is on days like this that one thinks of the greatest inequality of them all: the early death of Belfast physicist John Bell, the Irishman assuredly robbed by fate of a Nobel Prize. @dias.ie
www.penguin.co.uk/books/457519...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/457519...
October 7, 2025 at 11:44 AM
It is on days like this that one thinks of the greatest inequality of them all: the early death of Belfast physicist John Bell, the Irishman assuredly robbed by fate of a Nobel Prize. @dias.ie
www.penguin.co.uk/books/457519...
www.penguin.co.uk/books/457519...
A very happy Ivy Day to all those Joyce scholars out there (artwork credit in ALT)
October 6, 2025 at 2:13 PM
A very happy Ivy Day to all those Joyce scholars out there (artwork credit in ALT)
Absolutely surreal to watch the US Sec Def leaving the Quantico stage to the theme tune music for Monty Python. Was somebody taking the piss?
September 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Absolutely surreal to watch the US Sec Def leaving the Quantico stage to the theme tune music for Monty Python. Was somebody taking the piss?
🚨🚨🚨 There is a significant generational shift in Irish science policy, happening now. Emer McLysaght - Ireland's newly appointed Government Science Advisor -spoke tonight @tlrhub.bsky.social about global links and a new focus on all-of-government science advice. APPLY NOW! gov.ie/en/departmen...
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September 26, 2025 at 7:58 PM
🚨🚨🚨 There is a significant generational shift in Irish science policy, happening now. Emer McLysaght - Ireland's newly appointed Government Science Advisor -spoke tonight @tlrhub.bsky.social about global links and a new focus on all-of-government science advice. APPLY NOW! gov.ie/en/departmen...
September 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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👀 What was Perseverance observing at 3 in the morning? Frames are captured ~30 sec apart.
#Mars Sep. 24, 2025 - Sol 1634
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU 🧪🔭
#Mars Sep. 24, 2025 - Sol 1634
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU 🧪🔭
September 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
👀 What was Perseverance observing at 3 in the morning? Frames are captured ~30 sec apart.
#Mars Sep. 24, 2025 - Sol 1634
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU 🧪🔭
#Mars Sep. 24, 2025 - Sol 1634
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU 🧪🔭
Not duelling 🪕, duelling remote sensing satellites! 1st. Maxar Intelligence issued jawdropping images of Shijian-26 two months ago (details in Alt).......................
September 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Not duelling 🪕, duelling remote sensing satellites! 1st. Maxar Intelligence issued jawdropping images of Shijian-26 two months ago (details in Alt).......................
With #EPSC #DPS #EPSCDPS #EPSC2025 now just a fading memory, next up at Finlandia? Anyone for Heavy Metal?
@missiontopsyche.bsky.social science.nasa.gov/mission/psyc....
@missiontopsyche.bsky.social science.nasa.gov/mission/psyc....
September 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
With #EPSC #DPS #EPSCDPS #EPSC2025 now just a fading memory, next up at Finlandia? Anyone for Heavy Metal?
@missiontopsyche.bsky.social science.nasa.gov/mission/psyc....
@missiontopsyche.bsky.social science.nasa.gov/mission/psyc....
September 15, 2025 at 10:37 AM