Hannah Wakeford
@stellarplanet.bsky.social
Exoplanet scientist. Science communicator. Author. Podcaster. Miniature painter. Wife. Cat mum.
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Explore the cosmos at the RWA 🪐🚀
We've partnered with the Royal West of England Academy to today launch a new exhibition 'Cosmos: the art of observing Space', which explores the documentation of celestial mechanics by artists deeply inspired by observations of space.
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We've partnered with the Royal West of England Academy to today launch a new exhibition 'Cosmos: the art of observing Space', which explores the documentation of celestial mechanics by artists deeply inspired by observations of space.
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January 24, 2026 at 9:00 AM
Explore the cosmos at the RWA 🪐🚀
We've partnered with the Royal West of England Academy to today launch a new exhibition 'Cosmos: the art of observing Space', which explores the documentation of celestial mechanics by artists deeply inspired by observations of space.
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We've partnered with the Royal West of England Academy to today launch a new exhibition 'Cosmos: the art of observing Space', which explores the documentation of celestial mechanics by artists deeply inspired by observations of space.
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A great paper examining the hot Jupiter HAT-P-30b, lead by final-year PhD student Alastair Claringbold (@exoarcturus.bsky.social), as a part of the BOWIE ALIGN program. The program aims to understand how migration history impacts atmosphere composition. #exoplanets
www.arxiv.org/abs/2601.13104
www.arxiv.org/abs/2601.13104
BOWIE-ALIGN: Sub-solar C/O ratio and metallicity atmosphere of the misaligned hot Jupiter HAT-P-30b
We present the JWST NIRSpec/G395H transmission spectrum of the misaligned hot Jupiter HAT-P-30b from 2.8--5.2 $μ$m as part of the BOWIE-ALIGN survey, a comparative survey designed to probe the link be...
www.arxiv.org
January 21, 2026 at 1:42 PM
A great paper examining the hot Jupiter HAT-P-30b, lead by final-year PhD student Alastair Claringbold (@exoarcturus.bsky.social), as a part of the BOWIE ALIGN program. The program aims to understand how migration history impacts atmosphere composition. #exoplanets
www.arxiv.org/abs/2601.13104
www.arxiv.org/abs/2601.13104
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A reminder that I and a bunch of awesome people are doing stand-up about science in Kings Cross on the 28th. This will be excellent. Tickets here: wegottickets.com/event/684234.
Science Showoff January 2026
Science Showoff is the chaotic science comedy show where your favourite comedians, favourite scientists and favourite friends get to be silly about serious stuff.
Join a carefully-curated lineup of ...
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January 19, 2026 at 4:45 PM
A reminder that I and a bunch of awesome people are doing stand-up about science in Kings Cross on the 28th. This will be excellent. Tickets here: wegottickets.com/event/684234.
Excited to be heading to London on January 25th for a concert of sorts at King's Place Theatre near Kings Cross for "Bach the Universe and Everything" Where I will be talking about exoplanets and their exotic clouds 🪐🌦️ interspersed with music from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment!
Bach, the Universe & Everything: Exotic Exoplanets - Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
We begin the new year with vigorous resolve with 'Was mein Gott will, das g’scheh allzeit' (BWV 111), inspired by the story of the faithful centurion.
oae.co.uk
January 14, 2026 at 2:57 PM
Excited to be heading to London on January 25th for a concert of sorts at King's Place Theatre near Kings Cross for "Bach the Universe and Everything" Where I will be talking about exoplanets and their exotic clouds 🪐🌦️ interspersed with music from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment!
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ICYMI: Over the winter holidays, my student's paper on KELT-9b was accepted: arxiv.org/abs/2512.19662!
With the Hubble Space Telescope's STIS instrument, we find enormous escape of metal ions from the hottest hot Jupiter, KELT-9b! 🪐🔭💫
With the Hubble Space Telescope's STIS instrument, we find enormous escape of metal ions from the hottest hot Jupiter, KELT-9b! 🪐🔭💫
A High-Resolution NUV Transmission Spectrum of KELT-9b: Mg II and Fe II Escaping from the Hottest Known Giant Planet
We present high-resolution NUV observations from Hubble Space Telescope's (HST) Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) data for the hottest known gas planet, KELT-9b. Observations were collected ...
arxiv.org
January 12, 2026 at 4:02 PM
ICYMI: Over the winter holidays, my student's paper on KELT-9b was accepted: arxiv.org/abs/2512.19662!
With the Hubble Space Telescope's STIS instrument, we find enormous escape of metal ions from the hottest hot Jupiter, KELT-9b! 🪐🔭💫
With the Hubble Space Telescope's STIS instrument, we find enormous escape of metal ions from the hottest hot Jupiter, KELT-9b! 🪐🔭💫
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🚨 Important announcement 🚨
Are you a @royalastrosoc.bsky.social Fellow, science communicator, educator, student or member of a local astronomical society? We need your help!
We'll be holding a one-day #RASreach event for Education and Outreach in Manchester on Friday 27 March.
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Are you a @royalastrosoc.bsky.social Fellow, science communicator, educator, student or member of a local astronomical society? We need your help!
We'll be holding a one-day #RASreach event for Education and Outreach in Manchester on Friday 27 March.
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January 8, 2026 at 3:24 PM
🚨 Important announcement 🚨
Are you a @royalastrosoc.bsky.social Fellow, science communicator, educator, student or member of a local astronomical society? We need your help!
We'll be holding a one-day #RASreach event for Education and Outreach in Manchester on Friday 27 March.
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Are you a @royalastrosoc.bsky.social Fellow, science communicator, educator, student or member of a local astronomical society? We need your help!
We'll be holding a one-day #RASreach event for Education and Outreach in Manchester on Friday 27 March.
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Read this message and in a rush have just taken all of the Christmas decorations down. That was a close one! would have been bad luck and they would have had to stay up til Feb 2nd otherwise 😬
I know tonight is the night.
As in: Twelfth Night.
But my children are petitioning me to keep the tree up until 13th night!
As in: Twelfth Night.
But my children are petitioning me to keep the tree up until 13th night!
January 5, 2026 at 10:13 PM
Read this message and in a rush have just taken all of the Christmas decorations down. That was a close one! would have been bad luck and they would have had to stay up til Feb 2nd otherwise 😬
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Fully funded opportunity for bachelors and masters students to come work at MPIA in summer 2026!
Are you a bachelor or master student anywhere in the world, and would like to come to us to work full-time on a supervised research project? Applications for the 2026 MPIA Summer Internship are open now!
Summer internships
www.mpia.de
December 21, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Fully funded opportunity for bachelors and masters students to come work at MPIA in summer 2026!
Got a wonderful gift from a former postdoc today! A terrarium based on The forest moon of Endor complete with its own little Ewok & R2D2 😁
The tank was previously used on BBC The Sky at Night to demonstrate optical depth in a planetary atmosphere. A happy repurposing & joyful addition to my office
The tank was previously used on BBC The Sky at Night to demonstrate optical depth in a planetary atmosphere. A happy repurposing & joyful addition to my office
December 18, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Got a wonderful gift from a former postdoc today! A terrarium based on The forest moon of Endor complete with its own little Ewok & R2D2 😁
The tank was previously used on BBC The Sky at Night to demonstrate optical depth in a planetary atmosphere. A happy repurposing & joyful addition to my office
The tank was previously used on BBC The Sky at Night to demonstrate optical depth in a planetary atmosphere. A happy repurposing & joyful addition to my office
Doing some filming for a potential project this morning. I always get so nervous before filming things. The more prep for something there is the more nervous I become. Very much more comfortable with the hit and hope method. But nevertheless here we go!
December 16, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Doing some filming for a potential project this morning. I always get so nervous before filming things. The more prep for something there is the more nervous I become. Very much more comfortable with the hit and hope method. But nevertheless here we go!
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As ever, we'll be doing a foodbank collection at Nine Lessons this year. The list of most urgently needed items are at cosmicshambles.com/ninelessons CC @robinince.bsky.social, @soozuk.bsky.social, @nataliehaynes.bsky.social, @seismatters.bsky.social, @profaliceroberts.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 11:42 AM
As ever, we'll be doing a foodbank collection at Nine Lessons this year. The list of most urgently needed items are at cosmicshambles.com/ninelessons CC @robinince.bsky.social, @soozuk.bsky.social, @nataliehaynes.bsky.social, @seismatters.bsky.social, @profaliceroberts.bsky.social
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Next Thursday night is the first night of Nine Lessons 2025. It's also when we will announce the secret project we've been working on for the last four years. Make sure you're in your seats by 7! www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/nin...
December 13, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Next Thursday night is the first night of Nine Lessons 2025. It's also when we will announce the secret project we've been working on for the last four years. Make sure you're in your seats by 7! www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/nin...
Work from @danvalentine.bsky.social !
Published in #MNRAS: "Eclipse mapping with Ariel: future prospects for a population-level mapping survey", Valentine et al. This is Fig. 2: for the caption & to read the paper please visit academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... @royalastrosoc.bsky.social @academic.oup.com
December 9, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Work from @danvalentine.bsky.social !
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🪐 The #ExoMars team at the University has welcomed the UK Space Agency’s renewed backing for the Rosalind Franklin rover mission, a flagship project that will see Europe’s first Mars rover launch in 2028.
🖱️ tinyurl.com/d3m5ysah
@esa.int
@ukspaceagency.bsky.social
@abercompsci.bsky.social
🖱️ tinyurl.com/d3m5ysah
@esa.int
@ukspaceagency.bsky.social
@abercompsci.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 3:53 PM
🪐 The #ExoMars team at the University has welcomed the UK Space Agency’s renewed backing for the Rosalind Franklin rover mission, a flagship project that will see Europe’s first Mars rover launch in 2028.
🖱️ tinyurl.com/d3m5ysah
@esa.int
@ukspaceagency.bsky.social
@abercompsci.bsky.social
🖱️ tinyurl.com/d3m5ysah
@esa.int
@ukspaceagency.bsky.social
@abercompsci.bsky.social
Goes with their long proud tradition of running red lights
Waymo driverless rides coming to Baltimore, Moore touts "long, proud tradition of embracing innovation"
Waymo driverless rides coming to Baltimore, Moore touts "long, proud tradition of embracing innovation"
Baltimore has been added to the list of U.S. cities that will welcome autonomous ride-hailing service Waymo to its streets.
www.cbsnews.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Goes with their long proud tradition of running red lights
At the wonderful venue of the Balmoral ship docked in Bristol Quay to preset to the Bristol Science Cafe. A great team of volunteers on the ship and the science cafes lead Bob who has been running this for over 2 decades bring science to Bristolian life. #exoplanets #scicomm
December 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
At the wonderful venue of the Balmoral ship docked in Bristol Quay to preset to the Bristol Science Cafe. A great team of volunteers on the ship and the science cafes lead Bob who has been running this for over 2 decades bring science to Bristolian life. #exoplanets #scicomm
This weekend we headed to London for the world premiere of @robertlaidlow.bsky.social’s #Exoplanet suite. The London Philharmonic Orchestra were on fine form bring the amazing worlds we study to life. So grateful to have been a tiny part of the journey. Check out Rob describing the piece 👇 #sciart
In this video I explain how @stellarplanet.bsky.social and @climatebook.bsky.social research into these classes of planets inspired and informed some of the music.
The concert premiere of "Exoplanets" is at 7.30pm on Saturday 29th November at the Royal Festival Hall in London - tickets here:
The concert premiere of "Exoplanets" is at 7.30pm on Saturday 29th November at the Royal Festival Hall in London - tickets here:
Sheku Kanneh-Mason Plays Bloch | Southbank Centre
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 8:10 AM
This weekend we headed to London for the world premiere of @robertlaidlow.bsky.social’s #Exoplanet suite. The London Philharmonic Orchestra were on fine form bring the amazing worlds we study to life. So grateful to have been a tiny part of the journey. Check out Rob describing the piece 👇 #sciart
Check out this awesome talk by @danvalentine.bsky.social all about his research showing how the @esa.int Ariel mission could perform the most extraordinary phase curve survey to teach us all about #exoplanets
#proudAdvisor #astronomy #science
#proudAdvisor #astronomy #science
Dan Valentine (@danvalentine.bsky.social) has done some great work looking at using ARIEL to eclipse map exoplanet atmospheres. #exoplanets #astronomy
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrtL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrtL...
Eclipse Mapping with Ariel: Future Prospects for a Population-Level Mapping Survey
YouTube video by BOWIE+ Seminars
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Check out this awesome talk by @danvalentine.bsky.social all about his research showing how the @esa.int Ariel mission could perform the most extraordinary phase curve survey to teach us all about #exoplanets
#proudAdvisor #astronomy #science
#proudAdvisor #astronomy #science
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In this video I explain how @stellarplanet.bsky.social and @climatebook.bsky.social research into these classes of planets inspired and informed some of the music.
The concert premiere of "Exoplanets" is at 7.30pm on Saturday 29th November at the Royal Festival Hall in London - tickets here:
The concert premiere of "Exoplanets" is at 7.30pm on Saturday 29th November at the Royal Festival Hall in London - tickets here:
Sheku Kanneh-Mason Plays Bloch | Southbank Centre
www.southbankcentre.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
In this video I explain how @stellarplanet.bsky.social and @climatebook.bsky.social research into these classes of planets inspired and informed some of the music.
The concert premiere of "Exoplanets" is at 7.30pm on Saturday 29th November at the Royal Festival Hall in London - tickets here:
The concert premiere of "Exoplanets" is at 7.30pm on Saturday 29th November at the Royal Festival Hall in London - tickets here:
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Holst's planets suite may have its famous "Jupiter" and "Neptune", but my new "Exoplanets" for @lporchestra.bsky.social has HOT Jupiters and SUB Neptunes 🪐🪐🪐 (Saturday 29th at 7.30pm!)
youtu.be/kXi3TbD4_VA?...
youtu.be/kXi3TbD4_VA?...
Robert Laidlow on Exoplanets
YouTube video by London Philharmonic Orchestra
youtu.be
November 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Holst's planets suite may have its famous "Jupiter" and "Neptune", but my new "Exoplanets" for @lporchestra.bsky.social has HOT Jupiters and SUB Neptunes 🪐🪐🪐 (Saturday 29th at 7.30pm!)
youtu.be/kXi3TbD4_VA?...
youtu.be/kXi3TbD4_VA?...
CDT in Aerosol Science is welcoming applications for fully-funded PhD studentships as part of our 8th cohort to start in autumn 2026: www.aerosol-cdt.ac.uk/2026-projects/
Aerosol science is crucial to so many things, check out the linked project catalogue for studentships!
#PhD #academicjobs
Aerosol science is crucial to so many things, check out the linked project catalogue for studentships!
#PhD #academicjobs
2026 projects | Aerosol Science CDT
www.aerosol-cdt.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
CDT in Aerosol Science is welcoming applications for fully-funded PhD studentships as part of our 8th cohort to start in autumn 2026: www.aerosol-cdt.ac.uk/2026-projects/
Aerosol science is crucial to so many things, check out the linked project catalogue for studentships!
#PhD #academicjobs
Aerosol science is crucial to so many things, check out the linked project catalogue for studentships!
#PhD #academicjobs
Had a fabulous week at Ringberg for the “Signal in the Noise“ workshop hosted by two brilliant ECRs in the #exoplanet field @eahrer.bsky.social & @lili-alderson.bsky.social. Loads of ideas on how to get the most out of #jwst data & many new collaborations formed across an eager cohort of scientists
November 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Had a fabulous week at Ringberg for the “Signal in the Noise“ workshop hosted by two brilliant ECRs in the #exoplanet field @eahrer.bsky.social & @lili-alderson.bsky.social. Loads of ideas on how to get the most out of #jwst data & many new collaborations formed across an eager cohort of scientists
We have snow in Ringberg! ❄️🏰❄️ the sky has fallen, wonderful rainout of the atmosphere followed by a clearing and lowered opacity.
November 17, 2025 at 5:01 PM
We have snow in Ringberg! ❄️🏰❄️ the sky has fallen, wonderful rainout of the atmosphere followed by a clearing and lowered opacity.
Beautiful lessons in opacity from normal versus slant geometries from the plane as I left Abu Dhabi, some beautiful cloud formations over the Iranian mountains, and beautiful sunset over Romania
November 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Beautiful lessons in opacity from normal versus slant geometries from the plane as I left Abu Dhabi, some beautiful cloud formations over the Iranian mountains, and beautiful sunset over Romania
Had a great time @nyuad-oaa.bsky.social and an interesting time adventuring in the Abu Dhabi 🐪. Now time to head to Germany for the “signal in the noise” conference led by @lili-alderson.bsky.social and @eahrer.bsky.social held at Ringberg Castle 🏰
November 16, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Had a great time @nyuad-oaa.bsky.social and an interesting time adventuring in the Abu Dhabi 🐪. Now time to head to Germany for the “signal in the noise” conference led by @lili-alderson.bsky.social and @eahrer.bsky.social held at Ringberg Castle 🏰