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NEWS & PRESS
 Around 550 astronomers and space scientists will gather at the University of Hull, from 2 – 6 July, for the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2017). The conference is the largest regular professional astronomy and space science event in the UK and will see leading researchers from around the world... More
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Last updated on Monday, 26 June 2017 13:08 |
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Published on Monday, 26 June 2017 09:25 |
 Professor Carlos Frenk, Director of the Institute for Computational Cosmlogy at Durham University, and Professor Katherine Blundell, Professor of Astrophysics and Supernumeray Research Fellow at St John's College at the University of Oxford, receive awards in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
Professor Carlos Frenk. Credit:... More
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Last updated on Monday, 19 June 2017 11:35 |
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Published on Monday, 19 June 2017 09:42 |
 Using the Atacama Large Millimetre / submillimetre Array (ALMA), astronomers have observed stars like the Sun at a very early stage in their formation and found traces of methyl isocyanate — a chemical building block of life. This is the first ever detection of this prebiotic molecule towards solar-type protostars, the sort... More
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Last updated on Wednesday, 07 June 2017 08:46 |
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Published on Thursday, 08 June 2017 11:00 |
 Astronomers in the United States, at the University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University, have put a basic principle of black holes to the test, showing that matter completely vanishes when pulled in. Their results, published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, constitute another successful test for... More
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Last updated on Tuesday, 30 May 2017 16:56 |
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Published on Tuesday, 30 May 2017 16:00 |
 Prof Simon White, a director of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, has won the Shaw Prize for Astronomy. The Prize, considered to be 'the Nobel of the East', recognises the achievements of the world's leading scientists.
Prof White is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, and has... More
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Last updated on Thursday, 25 May 2017 10:12 |
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Published on Thursday, 25 May 2017 09:52 |
 Thousands of processors, terabytes of data, and months of computing time have helped a group of researchers in Germany create some of the largest and highest resolution simulations ever made of galaxies like our Milky Way.
Led by Dr Robert Grand of the Heidelberger Institut fuer Theoretische Studien, the work of the Auriga... More
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Last updated on Wednesday, 24 May 2017 09:31 |
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Published on Wednesday, 24 May 2017 05:00 |
 The RAS is once again offering a carers' grant scheme for the 2017 National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2017), to give eligible delegates a grant towards additional costs of paying for care when attending the conference.
Applications may be submitted at any time, up until 5 June 2017, and confirmation of eligibility will be given... More
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Last updated on Friday, 19 May 2017 09:26 |
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Published on Friday, 19 May 2017 09:26 |
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Around 500 astronomers and space scientists will gather at the University of Hull, from 2 – 6 July, for the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2017). The conference is the largest regular professional astronomy and space science event in the UK and will see leading researchers from around the world... More
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Last updated on Friday, 19 May 2017 09:33 |
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Published on Tuesday, 16 May 2017 09:25 |
 Planet walks and planetaria in Galway, tactile stargazing for people with sight loss, adventures in space for girls, astronomy and geophysics for rehabilitation of prisoners, and a science trailer for Cornwall make up five new public engagement projects supported by more than £400,000 from the Royal Astronomical Society. The... More
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Last updated on Friday, 12 May 2017 10:52 |
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Published on Friday, 12 May 2017 16:00 |
 Applications are invited for undergraduate internships in meteoritics. The internships will be funded by the F.A. Paneth Meteorite Trust, which was set up ‘to encourage and further research concerned with meteorites’.Prof. Friedrich Adolf Paneth (copyright University of Durham)
Applications should be submitted by... More
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Last updated on Wednesday, 10 May 2017 15:06 |
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Published on Wednesday, 10 May 2017 15:06 |
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