Brian Cox
@ProfBrianCox
Professor of Particle Physics at The University of Manchester
July 20, 1969. “Contact light, engine stop.” The Apollo 11 lunar module Eagle touched down at Tranquility Base on the Moon. A few hours later, Neil Armstrong and I stepped foot on the Moon, with Michael Collins orbiting close-by. An achievement resulting from years of…
Visited the wonderful Icelandic Aviation Museum in Akureyri yesterday - this is the cockpit of a 727 (which I remember flying on in the late ‘90s with American Airlines) … cockpits have certainly changed over the last few decades. I particularly like the telephone …

He’s basically Alan Partridge with a suntan.
RENEWABLE NOTICE I have written today to bosses of: Octopus Centrica RWE SSE Renewable Orsted Scottish Power Equinor Vattenfall Notifying them of the political risks of any bids for this years AR7 Net Stupid Zero is ruining our countryside & economy Reform intend to stop it
NGC 4388 is one of more than 1,300 galaxies within the Virgo Cluster. By being part of such a tightknit galactic group, NGC 4388 feels the effects of gravitational interactions with its neighbors. Find out how: go.nasa.gov/4nVmphk
One hundred years ago today, Werner Heisenberg wrote to Wolfgang Pauli of radical ideas about quantum mechanics. As this special anniversary edition of #CERNCourier shows, a century has not sufficed to fully understand or apply the theory. Read it now: cerncourier.com/p/magazine/
It came from outer space. An object from outside our Solar System is now passing through at high speed. Classified as a comet because of its gaseous coma, 3I/ATLAS is only the third identified macroscopic object as being so alien. The comet's trajectory is shown in white on the…
Sister ship @NASAVoyager 1 is ~23h 07m 20s of light travel time from Earth (2025:189:120000:1L)
This is surely true unless we change course. And it’s true that the current 20-year malaise began with the financial crisis and the policy responses to it, amplified further by factors outside our control such as the pandemic and the Ukraine war. However, there is also Brexit -…
Britain is heading for economic catastrophe. ✍️ Michael Simmons buff.ly/YeUuSmz
Astronomers may have just discovered the third interstellar object passing through the Solar System! ESA’s Planetary Defenders are observing the object, provisionally known as #A11pl3Z, right now using telescopes around the world.
My current estimate for sister ship Voyager 1 reaching one light-day distance from Earth is November 18, 2026.
🚨THIS IS NOT A DRILL🚨We are 6 days away from the world's First Look at images from Rubin! #RubinFirstLook @nsf-@doescience Rubin Observatory will take a new 3200-megapixel image every ~40s, yielding ~20 terabytes of data every night! The deluge of data is about to begin 🌊
Yesterday, Japan Airlines and Finnair flights from Helsinki to Tokyo took very different routes. Even though it flew further, Finnair beat JAL to Haneda. We look at some of the flight planning considerations. flightradar24.com/blog/flight-tr…
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One final match and everything to play for. #oafc
This has been a very interesting set of results over the years - it will be worth watching. This measurement is particularly sensitive to new physics beyond that described by the Standard Model of particle physics - although it’s not trivial by any means to calculate precisely…
The Muon g-2 experiment at Fermilab will unveil their final result on the muon's magnetic moment in a scientific seminar on June 3, 2025. 💫🧲👀 Learn more: muon-g-2.fnal.gov #gminus2
How did life begin on Earth? Our Dragonfly mission aims to find clues by exploring Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. As a pristine chemical "laboratory," Titan offers a unique window into the processes that may have led to complex molecules and the first signs of life! More:…
Our headline tour of North America kicks off tonight. Make sure you get down early for Walt Disco! Limited tickets still available from omd.uk.com/pages/shows
Thank you,🙏 everybody for reposting like I say not quite reaching many on here because of censorship but anyway heres the wee bit on D:R World enjoy x p 🤩
Pete here. Doing a little piece 2 camera every day this week 2 help build awareness for the new album due end of June talking here about the design ethos. Please retweet as were not blue tick x restricts our reach🙏 #NewMusic #BackToThe90s #DReam #90sDance #VinylDrop