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Leo Enright
@ollopa11.bsky.social
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"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
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Leo Enright @ollopa11.bsky.social · 12h
It's an aeroplane. 🙄
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Leo Enright @ollopa11.bsky.social · 12h
The best seat in the house on an approach through a thunderstorm in the Midwest. The only thing that beat it for me was a night train through the Alps during a storm.
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Emily Hunt @emily.space · 1d
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. 🧪🔭
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Leo Enright @ollopa11.bsky.social · 1d
"My god, its full of s̴t̴a̴r̴s̴ " Galaxies actually. Large scale structures show galaxies with the filaments of material between them. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10118
NASA Scientific Visualization Studio | Journey Through the Cosmic Web: Cosmic Cruising 2
This animation flies through the cosmic web of the early universe. At the end, we see the Hubble Space Telescope collecting data points.Launched in 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has revolutio...
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Leo Enright @ollopa11.bsky.social · 1d
My usual PSA: It is generally illegal to use metal detectors in Ireland without the permission of the Minister for Culture (s/he will usually say no). Penalties: up to €63,486 and/or up to 3 months imprisonment (5 years in the worst cases). Don't do it bud! www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...
The Law on Metal Detecting in Ireland | National Museum of Ireland
Welcome to the National Museum of Ireland in Dublin & Castlebar covering Archaeology, Decorative Arts, Folk & Country Life, & Natural History.FREE Exhibitions
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ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · 1d
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...
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Leo Enright @ollopa11.bsky.social · 1d
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...
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Leo Enright @ollopa11.bsky.social · 2d
A very happy Ivy Day to all those Joyce scholars out there (artwork credit in ALT)
Artwork adapted from ©️ https://www.ulule.com/dubliners/news/
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Leo Enright @ollopa11.bsky.social · 3d
Not even remotely original, my dear friend. The canonical "true scale" pic was published fadó fadó, a mhic 😉
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Leo Enright @ollopa11.bsky.social · 8d
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?
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Leo Enright @ollopa11.bsky.social · 12d
🚨🚨🚨 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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Leo Enright @ollopa11.bsky.social · 13d
A very nicely crafted piece by Florence Okojie @news.rte.ie about Irish Sign Language at Dublin Zoo. Well done! 👍😊
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Leo Enright @ollopa11.bsky.social · 13d
These "professional actor" headlines are laughable. One stupid translator takes the Danish words literally , and the whole English-speaking media world look like complete idiots.
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Leo Enright @ollopa11.bsky.social · 14d
Thanks for sharing. Perspective, and all that stuff 😉
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Leo Enright @ollopa11.bsky.social · 14d
Americans think that Jimmy Kimmel was riffing on Jack Paar (1960) when he said: "as I was saying before I was interrupted ......". But Paar stole the line from Eamonn de Valera (1924).
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Leo Enright @ollopa11.bsky.social · 14d
SCRUB
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Leo Enright @ollopa11.bsky.social · 14d
Cod's speed, #Nordspace !

www.nordspace.com/info
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Leo Enright @ollopa11.bsky.social · 14d
Phobos?
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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 14d
👀 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 🧪🔭
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Leo Enright @ollopa11.bsky.social · 18d
Barely noticed, of course, after Apollo. But Luna 15 (a failure) was watched obsessively in the West, garnering headlines throught Apollo 11 in case it might beat the US with lunar samples. (note the Moonday date!)
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Leo Enright @ollopa11.bsky.social · 19d
Sounds awfully like Bezos offered NASA a deal (maybe a very good deal). Question is, was the deal first mooted before or after NASA cancelled its Partnership Proposals solicitation? I will also remark: beware of billionaire geeks bearing gifts 😉
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Leo Enright @ollopa11.bsky.social · 19d
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Did *anyone* see this coming?
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Leo Enright @ollopa11.bsky.social · 21d
Then last week Jilin-1 snapped Worldview's Legion 2. "Anything you can do, I can do" 🎶 H/T @segeryu.bsky.social in the other place. His caption in Alt
Super-resolution images. This image, taken by Jilin-1, showed an encounter velocity of 358 m/s with the target satellite and an intersection angle of 0.24°. The image taken by Legion-2 in Earth's shadow showed an encounter velocity of 32 m/s with the target satellite and an intersection angle of 0.59°.
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Leo Enright @ollopa11.bsky.social · 21d
Not duelling 🪕, duelling remote sensing satellites! 1st. Maxar Intelligence issued jawdropping images of Shijian-26 two months ago (details in Alt).......................
From: Susanne Hake SVP and General Manager, USG, Maxar Intelligence. Maxar Technologies just captured the clearest non-Earth image (NEI) we've ever collected. At an amazing SSD at 1.9 cm, this is a crystal-clear picture of the Shi Jian 26, a Chinese optical remote sensing satellite. This type of resolution is revolutionary for space situational awareness. The SJ 26 represents China's latest generation of optical reconnaissance satellites, and our ability to image it this clearly demonstrates a new era in satellite-to-satellite observation. This capability fundamentally changes space security for the future. As space becomes increasingly crowded with thousands of new satellites from multiple nations, we can now monitor satellite operations, detect modifications or threats, and provide near real-time intelligence on space-based assets in unprecedented detail. It's like having a microscope trained on the new space race, ensuring we can protect critical infrastructure and communications while maintaining strategic awareness of emerging space capabilities.
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Leo Enright @ollopa11.bsky.social · 22d
I once drank with a rockstar whose band was backed by a billionaire. "it must be great, " I said. He replied: "Leo, you have no idea how unnerving it is when your livelihood is somebody else's hobby". Paul Allen's Stratolaunch was an early example. I still think the USG will "nationalise" SpaceX
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