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The centre of just about every galaxy is thought to host a black hole, some with masses of thousands of millions of Suns and consequently strong gravitational pulls that disrupt material around them. They had been thought to hinder the birth of stars, but...
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Geophysical Journal International (GJI) will be holding an Author Workshop entitled 'Getting your paper published' at the 2012 European Geosciences Union General Assembly, which will be held at the ACV conference centre in Vienna, Austria.
The workshop...
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The February digest of upcoming space and astronomy events, from the RAS. This month sees the annual Astrofest conference, the launch of the LARES satellite to investigate Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and a conference on the geophysics of the c...
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Astronomers, particle physicists, chemists and other scientists all handle their information in different ways, according to a new report from the Research Information Network (RIN). The study, entitled "Collaborative yet independent: Information practice...
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UK-Germany joint National Astronomy Meeting 2012: 1st media announcement
From 27 to 30 March 2012, around 600 astronomers and space scientists will gather at the University of Manchester for the National Astronomy Meeting 2012 (NAM 2012), one of Europe's...
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Honorary Fellow of the RAS Professor Reinhard Genzel, of the University of California at Berkeley, USA and Scientific Director of the Max-Planck Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany has been named the joint winner of the 2012 Crafoor...
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The Sculptor galaxy, NGC253, viewed by the VLT Survey Telescope. (ESO/INAF-VST)
This wide-field image of NGC253, a galaxy discovered by Caroline Herschel in 1783 while searching for comets, demonstrates the potential of the European Southern Obse...
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The Omega Nebula, M17, captured by the VLT. (ESO)
The Omega Nebula glows pink with hydrogen gas illuminated by intense ultraviolet radiation from massive young blue-white stars in this well-known star-forming region in the Milky Way.
This image...
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Applications are invited for the position of Executive Secretary of the Royal Astronomical Society. The current Executive Secretary, David Elliott, has announced his intention to retire; the position will be available from May 2012. The deadline...
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The surface of the asteroid Vesta. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA)
NASA’s Dawn spacecraft has reached its high-altitude mapping orbit at 680km above the surface of asteroid Vesta and is producing extensive images. This false-colour ...
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Dr Becky Parker, Head of Physics at Simon Langton Grammar School, has won the first RAS Patrick Moore Medal in recognition of her outstanding work as a teacher of astronomy.
Dr Becky Parker, first winner of the RAS Patrick Moore MedalDr Parker has been a...
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The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) today announced the winners of the Society's medals and awards for 2012. These prizes honour leading figures that have made an outstanding contribution to astronomy (designated 'A') and geophysics (designated 'G') and ...
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The deadline for submission of abstracts has been extended until 13 February.
Please note that anyone wishing to present a talk or poster must register to attend the conference before submitting an abstract for consideration.
To register, go to ...
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The January digest of upcoming space and astronomy events. This month sees the launch of an Italian probe to investigate general relativity, a special conference on the history of astronomical imaging and the maximum of the Quadrantids meteor shower.
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The RAS is assembling a map of astronomy and geophysics outreach and public engagement work across the UK. If you're involved in this area and would like to help, would you mind spending a few minutes completing one of our short surveys? They both close...
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An international group of astronomers led by Tom Scott at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía in Granada, Spain, has discovered extraordinarily long one-sided gaseous tails in two groups of galaxies that are amongst the longest structures ever obs...
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The RAS has introduced a new secure online payment system for Fellows to pay their 2012 membership fees. The new system is both quicker and easier to use than the old payment system.
Fellows who pay their membership fees by credit or debit card...
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The December digest of space and astronomy events, from the Royal Astronomical Society. This month sees conferences on why the Earth is special and the prospects for science from a proposed X-ray observatory, a free public lecture on the impact of the spa...
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Topics and Sessions
The Germany-UK NAM 2012 covers a wide range of astronomy and solar system science, as listed below.
Cosmology
Interstellar medium
Computational astrophysics
Galaxies
Stars
Telescopes and instrumentation...
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Journal subscription prices
The current prices for Fellows to subscribe to the Society's journals (for personal use only) are given below. Non-fellows and institutions should contact the publishers for subscription prices. The prices given h...
