Dr Liam Edwards
@LiamTEdwards
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He/Him. Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Helsinki 🇫🇮 BepiColombo/SIXS 🛰️ Solar Physicist ☀️ Cymro o Sir Fôn 🏴 Views are my own.
Helsinki, Finland
Joined February 2011
ICYMI, Solar Orbiter delivered humanity's first clear views of the Sun's south pole ☀️
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"It's not a clear and obvious error." Were they correct to overturn Everton's penalty on VAR?
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Remember when Brighton got a penalty for this? VAR. Football’s all seeing eye. Football’s pedantic autocorrect. Manned in this case by Lee Mason at Stockley Park who whispered sweet nothings in Andrew Madley’s ear until he awarded a penalty. https://t.co/KHGBx7BVT5
#EVEMUN – 90+4’ VAR OVERTURN VAR checked the referee’s call of penalty to Everton for a challenge by Maguire on Young and deemed that no foul had been committed and recommended an on-field review. The referee overturned the original decision and play restarted with a drop ball.
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Mike Dean is an English former professional football referee and currently a video assistant referee (VAR) primarily in the Premier League Mike Dean “I wouldn’t expect it to be overturned” Andy Madley then overturns the penalty 🤬 https://t.co/zMVEs2TgVN
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Not Man Utd legend Rio Ferdinand also agreeing that was a pen 🤷🏼♀️ fanbase delusion up there with Liverpool and Arsenal, imagine the scenes if that wasn’t given to their precious Bruno at the Stretford End 🤪
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🤔In space, no one can hear you... make an orbit-bending flyby of Mercury. So BepiColombo recorded its vibrations and turned them into sounds
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Our top three images from the sixth Mercury flyby are here! 🌗 See what they reveal about the mysterious planet here 👉 https://t.co/osfrjGs2t5 and in 🧵👇
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Here's an image taken 5.5 hours before closest approach, when #bepicolombo was 44950 km from Mercury's southern hemisphere. The planet is at the bottom of the picture, below two of the spacecraft's booms.
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RT @BepiColombo: 🛰️🌑We're gearing up for BepiColombo's sixth Mercury flyby, coming up this Wednesday! ℹ️Closest approach is 295 km at 06:5…
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On 8 January 2025, the ESA/JAXA BepiColombo mission will fly just 295 km above Mercury's surface, with a closest approach scheduled for 06:59 CET (05:59 UTC). It will use this opportunity to photog...
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🚨 | Noussair Mazraoui told teammates he would not wear a jacket supporting the LGBTQ+ community vs Everton, citing his Muslim faith as why. It was decided that no players would wear the tracksuit. Not everyone in the dressing room was happy with this decision. [@AdamCrafton_]
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Mercury in motion... One of the #BepiColombo selfie-cameras captured Mercury today as the spacecraft rushed by the planet at almost 3 km per second. 🛰️💨 This time-lapse of unprocessed images was captured during 10:26-11:18 UTC today (11:26-12:18 CET), between 53700 and 48000 km
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A successful encounter! #BepiColombo passed Mercury today, gathering valuable science data. 🛰️🌖 As expected, as we were further from the planet than during previous encounters, the planet was quite small in the selfie-cam pictures. Here's an image taken at 10:46 UTC (11:46
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