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'News & Press' shows the latest news from or about the RAS. 'News archive' holds older stories.
For more information, contact Robert Massey, RAS Press & Policy Officer.
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 During the Story of London Festival the Learned and Scientific Societies which share Burlington House are organising a series of lectures between 1 – 8 October on their contribution to innovation in the arts, humanities and sciences over 300 years and in the future and on their continuing contribution to the...
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 01 September 2010 14:53 |
 September sees the first RAS lunchtime lecture of the autumn season, conferences on meteors and short-lived astronomical events, the best view of Jupiter for some years and another (likely) launch of a private spacecraft.
This release summarise these and other astronomy and space science events taking place during the...
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 01 September 2010 13:24 |
 Dr Baojiu Li of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics of the University of Cambridge has won the 2009 RAS Michael Penston Prize in recognition of his outstanding PhD thesis.
Baojiu worked on the physical and cosmological implications of modified gravity theories, a key area of interest in astronomy...
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Last Updated on Monday, 16 August 2010 15:31 |
 This year’s Perseid meteor shower looks set to be one of the best of recent years, with near perfect viewing conditions for observers in the UK. The peak of the shower will be at around 2300 BST on Thursday 12 August but activity will be strong into the pre-dawn hours of Friday morning. This is just two days after New Moon,...
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 18 August 2010 08:17 |
 Using a combination of instruments on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, a UK-led international team of astronomers have discovered the most massive stars to date, one which at birth had more than 300 times the mass of the Sun, twice as much as the currently accepted limit. The existence of these monsters — millions of times more...
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 July 2010 10:46 |
 Dr David Halliday of Schlumberger Cambridge Research has been awarded the Keith Runcorn prize for his 2009 PhD thesis on research at the University of Edinburgh. David's work focused on using interferometry to estimate surface waves between geophone receivers (geophones convert ground movement into voltage and are a key tool of...
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Last Updated on Monday, 16 August 2010 15:32 |
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Dr Ben Davies, Dr Caitriona Jackman and Dr Thomas Kitching will take up the 2010 RAS Fellowships. For three years from October 2010, the three scientists will respectively hold their Fellowships at the Institute of Astronomy in Cambridge, University College London and the Institute for Astronomy at the Royal Observatory...
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Last Updated on Monday, 16 August 2010 15:32 |
 A team of astronomers from Germany, Bulgaria and Poland have used a completely new technique to find an exotic extrasolar planet. The same approach is sensitive enough to find planets as small as the Earth in orbit around other stars. The group, led by Dr Gracjan Maciejewski of Jena University in Germany, used Transit Timing...
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Last Updated on Thursday, 12 August 2010 12:52 |
 The July digest of forthcoming space and astronomy events, from the RAS. This month sees the Rosetta spacecraft fly past the asteroid Lutetia, a total solar eclipse and a planetary conjunction in the twilight sky.
10 July: Rosetta encounters asteroid Lutetia
On the evening of 10 July, the European Space Agency (ESA)...
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Last Updated on Friday, 02 July 2010 15:10 |
 Many of the Milky Way’s ancient stars are remnants of other smaller galaxies torn apart by violent galactic collisions around five billion years ago, according to researchers at Durham University, who publish their results in a new paper in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Scientists at...
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Last Updated on Friday, 02 July 2010 10:39 |
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