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Are we alone in the Universe and what would you say to ET?

Professor Paul Davies will deliver a public lecture to coincide with the 50th anniversary of SETI ( Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) on 17 March.


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On April 8, 1960, a young American astronomer, Frank Drake, turned a radio telescope toward the star Tau Ceti and listened for several hours to see if he could detect any artificial radio signals. With this modest start began a worldwide project of potentially momentous significance. Known as SETI - Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence - it is an amalgam of science, technology, adventure, curiosity and a bold vision of humanity's destiny. Drake has said that SETI is really a search for ourselves - who we are and what our place might be in the grand cosmic scheme of things.

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NAM 2010
Register for NAM 2010 at the University of Glasgow 12-16 April!                                                         nam_poster200.jpg
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“Catastrophic event” behind the halt of star birth in early galaxy formation
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Scientists have found evidence of a catastrophic event they believe was responsible for halting the birth of stars in a galaxy in the early Universe. They report their results in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. (Image: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss)

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Earthquake in Chile
The astronomical community will be relieved to learn that, we understand, most astronomers working in Chile have been accounted for, and are safe and well , and that the observatories  were not seriously damaged by the earthquake.  Given the large number of UK scientists with first hand knowledge of Chile, we have been asked to draw attention to charitable appeals including the Red Cross and Save the Children
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RAS / IoP response to restructuring of the Science and Technology Facilities Council
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) and the Institute of Physics (IOP) have responded to the statement by Lord Drayson, Minister of Science and Innovation, setting out reforms to the structure of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC).

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Space and astronomy digest: March 2010
This release summarises some of the astronomy and space science events taking place during March, particularly those with UK involvement. Highlights this month include the annual UK Space Conference and a public lecture on how impacts have shaped the Solar System.

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Alien invaders pack the Milky Way
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Around a quarter of the globular star clusters in our Milky Way galaxy are invaders from other galaxies, according to a team of scientists from Swinburne University of Technology in Australia. In a paper accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Swinburne astronomer Professor Duncan Forbes has shown that many of our galaxy’s globular star clusters are actually foreigners - having been born elsewhere and then migrated to our Milky Way. Image: NASA / The Hubble Heritage Team / STScI / AURA

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