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  1. RT @ESAHerschel Herschel is bigger, but @Planck is brighter. See this in http://bit.ly/3kfVCM
  2. In Popular Science's "Best of What's New 2009" (Aviation & Space) along with @ESAHerschel http://bit.ly/2FtvIZ Yay! (via @chrisenorth)
  3. Rosetta's final Earth fly-by is soon. The closest Rosetta will get to me is 1.225 million km (17 hours from now) http://www.esa.int/blog
  4. Gotta love the Galactic Centre RT @pttu NASA's Great Observatories Celebrate International Year of Astronomy: http://bit.ly/2p5hEm
  5. Fellow ESA mission Rosetta is passing through the neighbourhood and got this glimpse of the Moon from 4.3 million km! http://bit.ly/2nF2Oi
  6. 50% of the sky! http://bit.ly/caHTg
  7. My newly updated news page has my sky coverage, info on where I am and upcoming milestones: http://tinyurl.com/plancknews
  8. Observing the planets: http://planck.cf.ac.uk/node...
  9. As I slowly scan the sky, things move into my view. In the past few weeks I've seen Mars, Jupiter and Neptune. Very useful for calibration.
  10. Many of my scientists & engineers who aren't at the Data Processing Centres are meeting in Bologna this week to discuss the mission so far.
  11. RT @chrisenorth Just bought some snacks ready for tonight's shift on the Bridge---I mean in the control room of @Planck HFI
  12. 42% of the sky! http://bit.ly/caHTg Getting close to half of the first full-sky survey.
  13. Lovely! RT @ESAHerschel Astronomy Picture of the Day - http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov..., Herschel Views the Milky Way.
  14. @LCROSS_NASA Wishing you (and your team) the best of luck for the impact. It's been great knowing you. http://www.nasa.gov/ntv
  15. @elbuho1 Hey, don't give @ESAHerschel credit for my Data Processing Centres. ;-)
  16. @ESAHerschel The Data Processing Centres for my 2 instruments have over 190 TB of disk space!
  17. Great space missions for Follow Friday: @ESAHerschel, @MESSENGER2011 (near Mercury) and @LCROSS_NASA (to impact the Moon on Oct 9).
  18. Beautiful! RT @ESAHerschel Herschel shows the Milky Way as you've never seen it before: http://tinyurl.com/y8rulpg
  19. @astroengine There is only that 1000x500px image.
  20. My latest sky coverage http://bit.ly/caHTg