Ariel Space Mission
The Ariel Consortium page | Ariel is an ESA mission to study what exoplanets are made of, how they formed, and how they evolve 🪐
- The team behind the Ariel Data Challenge are holding a fourth in-person Exoplanet hackathon in Groningen! The fourth in the ExoHack series will be held at at the @kapteynastro.bsky.social at @rug.nl on April 16th- 17th 2026, 9.00am until 6pm CEST 👀 Join here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/exoplanet-...
- The team behind the Ariel Data Challenge are holding an in-person Exoplanet hackathon in London! The 3rd ExoHack will be held @kingsnmes.bsky.social on March 21st 2026, 9.30am to 6pm GMT 👀 More info & link to register here (limited spots available!): www.ariel-datachallenge.space/exohack-lond...
- This time last week we had a wonderful time presenting Ariel to young science students at the science fair for the @kingsnmes.bsky.social Annual Science Schools Lecture, given this year by Ariel PI and King's NMES Vice Dean (Research), Prof Giovanna Tinetti!
- Reposted by Ariel Space MissionInstrument AIRS pour @arieltelescope.bsky.social *Contrôle dimensionnel @cea.fr @esa.int Beauty of engineering !
- Happy New Year all - we're celebrating with a talk!🥳 Join Ariel PI Giovanna Tinetti for her lecture at the @kingsnmes.bsky.social Annual Physics Schools lecture! 🗓️: 13 January 2026 🕑: 15:15 to 18:00 🗺️: Edmond J Safra LT, KCL Strand 🔗: More info & registration here www.kcl.ac.uk/events/annua...
- Reposted by Ariel Space MissionDr Gordon Yip is involved in a new @esa.int mission, using AI to investigate exoplanets. Ariel launches into space in 2029 and is the largest UK-led space mission to date, led by King's physicist Professor Giovanna Tinetti. www.kcl.ac.uk/meet-dr-gord... #ScienceAtKings @kingsnmes.bsky.social
- Huge congratulations to the winners of Ariel Data Challenge 2025, especially first place Jeroen Cottaar!🏆 Almost all the top solutions have now been posted to the leaderboard - link in bio to check them out on Kaggle 👀
- ExoClock Unlocked is a program for astronomy - NO telescope is needed & there are no requirements to participate, just motivation to learn to observe exoplanet transits! Participants will be trained by Ariel mission scientists with user-friendly tools, & step-by-step guidance, check it out! 👀👀
- The telescope assembly has now been successfully integrated onto the payload structural model at @RAL_Space_STFC ! 🎉 This model will undergo testing at the UK's new National Satellite Test Facility 🛰️ To see a timelapse video of the assembly, check out the Arieltelescope insta... 👀
- Reposted by Ariel Space Mission📢 It's not too late to join the @arieltelescope.bsky.social Data Challenge 2025, contributing to the Exoplanets research! Hurry up, one month left!
- One month left to join the Ariel Data Challenge 2025! Think you can advance exoplanet research and compete for $50,000 in prizes? Perfect for those passionate about space science to put their skills to the test! Join the challenge and check out our ADC2025 videos here: linktr.ee/arieltelescope
- 🚨 New Video! 🚨 ExoClock Co-ordinator Anastasia Kokori talks about ExoClock - a project to monitor the ephemerides of transiting exoplanets by the ARIEL Ephemerides Working Group, open for public participation! 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7c...
- 🚨Check out our ✨NEW VIDEO✨ introducing the Ariel Data Challenge 2025! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBk_...
- Reposted by Ariel Space MissionDiRAC is once again delighted to support the Ariel Data Challenge, having provided the computing resources to generate the 2025 dataset. Visit the Ariel Data Challenge website to learn more about the challenge and to potentially be in with a chance of winning the $15,000 top prize...! 🚀
- The Ariel Data Challenge 2025 has launched! Join the challenge here: www.ariel-datachallenge.space To learn more about the challenge and read our ADC2025 launch press release: arielmission.space/index.php/pr... For ADC2025 updates, follow Ariel socials here: linktr.ee/arieltelescope
- Reposted by Ariel Space MissionSuper exciting stuff! Ariel Data Challenge Launches today! I can't believe it's that time again already, but if you're looking for a bit of a fun coding challenge, check this out, previous years have been a lot of fun. #exoplanets 🔭🪐 www.instagram.com/p/DLhOUXEtKk...
- Reposted by Ariel Space Mission🚨 The Ariel Data Challenge 2025 has launched! 🚀🚀 👀 Check out @arieltelescope.bsky.social to: - Join the challenge - Learn more about the challenge and read the press release on the Ariel Consortium website - Follow all Ariel socials for challenge updates!
- Reposted by Ariel Space MissionKing’s is at the forefront of the sixth edition of the Ariel Data Challenge! 🙌 In partnership with UCL, the global competition will help scientists gather important data about the atmospheres of planets beyond our solar system. 🌌 Learn more ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-h...
- The Ariel Data Challenge 2025 has launched! Join the challenge here: www.ariel-datachallenge.space To learn more about the challenge and read our ADC2025 launch press release: arielmission.space/index.php/pr... For ADC2025 updates, follow Ariel socials here: linktr.ee/arieltelescope
- Reposted by Ariel Space Mission🥇 The Europlanet Iberian Hub is proud to announce the winners of the Europlanet Iberian Solar System Amateur Astronomy award: 🔭 Agrupación Astronómica de Sabadell for their large contribution to the @arieltelescope.bsky.social, combining observations of exoplanets with a variety of telescopes 👏
- Reposted by Ariel Space MissionSuch a pleasure as always to get to present my work at @arieltelescope.bsky.social consortium meeting 🪐🔭 I know it was a packed 3 days so if you missed me please feel free to still drop me a message! -- Also thankyou Leiden for being such a pretty city 👀
- Reposted by Ariel Space MissionAnd here the plenary with 200+ participants!! Turns out this is the #25 Ariel Consortium meeting 🥳🥳!! @arieltelescope.bsky.social @sronspace.bsky.social @esa.int
- Reposted by Ariel Space MissionKicking off the Ariel Consortium Meeting at SRON Leiden 😊! @sronspace.bsky.social @arieltelescope.bsky.social
- ANNOUNCEMENT: Ariel undergoes the UK’s first space acoustic tests, led by RAL Space! Read here: arielmission.space 👀
- ExoClock's Anastasia Kokori recently featured on popular Polish Youtube channel Astrofaza to chat about ExoClock! Check it out here [English & Polish]: www.youtube.com/live/weUrMwz...
- 🚨Check out the BBC Click episode featuring Ariel as part of a segment on the National Satellite Testing Facility on iplayer (link in our bio!) 👀 The Ariel payload is tested at RAL Space & the NSTF before travelling to France to be mounted onto the platform developed by Airbus
- Psst... we hear that Ariel gets a mention on BBC Click airing this weekend - with an appearance from our UK National Project Manager, Dr Rachel Drummond 👀📺
- Reposted by Ariel Space MissionUnleashing my inner scout in the name of @arieltelescope.bsky.social 🔭
- Reposted by Ariel Space MissionTomorrow, at #NeurIPS2024, don't miss the session on the "Ariel Data Challenge 2024: Extracting exoplanetary signals from the Ariel Space Telescope". neurips.cc/virtual/2024... Meet the winners of the Kaggle competition, and find out the role ML will play in the @arieltelescope.bsky.social
- The Ariel team at NeurIPS conference 2024! 😊
- Ariel - but make it tasty! 🎂😋 AIT (Assembly, Integration, and Test) technician Katherine submitted the 🏆winning cake🏆 to the RAL Space STFC Christmas bake off - judged by Ariel AIT manager Georgia Bishop!
- Ariel Data Challenge lead Dr Gordon (Kai Hou) Yip and Prof Ingo Waldmann are taking off, headed to #NeurIPS2024! We’re looking forward to seeing many ADC 2024 winners present their solutions 🤩
- For those attending #NeurIPS2024 - join our workshop!
- Reposted by Ariel Space Mission📣 The @arieltelescope.bsky.social Data Challenge is now concluded! 👏 And the winners are 1: Kohki Horie, Yamato Arai (University of Tokyo) 2: Jeroen Cottaar (ASML) 3: Vincent Debout, Sébastien Goulet (CS group) 4: Shlomo Ron 5 Team Youri + Pascal 6: Dmitrii Rudenko (LMU)
- The winners of the Ariel Data Challenge 2024 have been officially announced! After a fierce 3 months, 6 winners emerged from 1400+ participants from 75 countries - HUGE congratulations to all the winners! For the full announcement, see the front page & press releases page here: arielmission.space
- 🚨 LAST FEW DAYS 🚨 Register for ExoClock Unlocked by December 15th here: www.exoclock.space/exoclock_unl... Want to contribute to real scientific research and learn about exoplanet science? But don’t have a telescope? 🔭 No problem! Join ExoClock Unlocked! 🔓
- Last week to register - deadline December 15th! ⌛️🗓️👀
- Join us for the first #ESA Datalabs Hackathon. Develop #MachineLearning models to study #Exoplanets, for the #ArielTelescope! 📍 Where: European Space Astronomy Centre (ESA-ESAC), near Madrid 🇪🇸 📅 When: 16-17 January 2025 👉 Register by 15 December 2024: www.ariel-datachallenge.space/esa-datalabs...
- Check out this new article from the researchers at the Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) 👀 The IA's Pedro Machado is an Ariel Consortium board member & coordinator of the Ariel working group linking the study of exoplanet atmospheres with that of the Solar System
- Read the article (open access🔓) here: www.mdpi.com/2073-4433/15...
- Here's the press release on the AI site: divulgacao.iastro.pt/en/2024/12/0...
- Wonderful write-up of ExoClock and Ariel's Lisbon meeting in November's NEURÓNIO ☺️ (And ICYMI - there's still time to join ExoClock Unlocked this year! Link in bio 👀)
- Reposted by Ariel Space MissionWouldn't catch me missing out on a team photo op - even remotely! @arieltelescope.bsky.social
- Reposted by Ariel Space MissionJoin us for the first #ESA Datalabs Hackathon. Develop #MachineLearning models to study #Exoplanets, for the #ArielTelescope! 📍 Where: European Space Astronomy Centre (ESA-ESAC), near Madrid 🇪🇸 📅 When: 16-17 January 2025 👉 Register by 15 December 2024: www.ariel-datachallenge.space/esa-datalabs...
