Articles tagged with 'Jodrell-Bank' | University of Manchester

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2024
11
April
2024
| 12:27 Europe/London
Three leading departmental researchers are being awarded highly prestigious European Research Council (ERC) advanced grants.
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08
April
2024
| 10:00 Europe/London
An international team of astronomers have made a significant breakthrough in understanding the unprecedented behaviour of a previously dormant star with a powerful magnetic field.
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29
February
2024
| 10:00 Europe/London
Researchers have found water vapour in the disc around a young star exactly where planets may be forming.
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14
February
2024
| 11:58 Europe/London
The University of Manchester’s policy engagement, Policy@Manchester, has hosted a visit to Jodrell Bank Observatory for a leading Parliamentarian with a special interest in its work.
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18
January
2024
| 19:00 Europe/London
An international team of astronomers have found a new and unknown object in the Milky Way that is heavier than the heaviest neutron stars known and yet simultaneously lighter than the lightest black holes known.
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2023
30
December
2023
| 11:03 Europe/London
Three University of Manchester Professors are among those recognised in the King's 2024 New Year Honours List. 
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05
October
2023
| 12:29 Europe/London
The University of Manchester will play a crucial role in a landmark mission to trace patterns in the light from space, looking back almost to the Big Bang, bringing us closer to understanding the nature of our Universe and how it began.
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24
September
2023
| 11:00 Europe/London
The University of Manchester is to receive a sample from asteroid Bennu, which will help unveil secrets of our Solar System.
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22
September
2023
| 11:00 Europe/London
According to new research published today, galaxies from the early Universe are more like our own Milky Way than previously thought, flipping the entire narrative of how scientists think about structure formation in the Universe.
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03
August
2023
| 16:00 Europe/London
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recorded breath-taking new images of the iconic Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57.  
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13
July
2023
| 09:00 Europe/London
A collaboration of scientists from The University of Manchester and the University of Hong Kong have found a source for the mysterious alignment of stars near the Galactic Centre.
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30
June
2023
| 14:51 Europe/London
Scientists at The University of Manchester are involved in an international satellite mission to map the dark Universe.
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29
June
2023
| 01:00 Europe/London
After 25 years of observations, an international team of astronomers have seen the first evidence of ultra-low-frequency gravitational waves.
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17
May
2023
| 16:31 Europe/London
After decades of trying, astronomers have found the origin of a Type Ia supernova explosion using radio emissions, thanks to the e-MERLIN telescope network.
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02
May
2023
| 16:00 Europe/London
Aliens on nearby stars could detect Earth through radio signals leaked from the planet, new research suggests.
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26
April
2023
| 16:42 Europe/London
Jodrell Bank's spectacular new First Light Pavilion and permanent exhibition gallery, which opened in June 2022, has continued to win awards since its launch, with the latest being top honours at the prestigious Civic Trust Awards ceremony in London
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25
April
2023
| 00:05 Europe/London
On 25 April 2023, Sir Francis Graham-Smith FRS, FRAS, FInstP., celebrated his 100th birthday. Sir Francis, or Graham as he is known to friends and colleagues, was the second Director of Jodrell Bank Observatory, taking over from Sir Bernard Lovell
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17
April
2023
| 15:15 Europe/London
An international team of scientists, led by a researcher at The University of Manchester, have developed a novel AI (artificial intelligence) approach to distil technical astronomy terminology into simple understandable English in their recent
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24
February
2023
| 13:29 Europe/London
An international team of scientist have used the MeerKAT radio telescope to observe the pulsing heartbeat of the universe as neutron stars are born and form swirling lightning storms which last for millions of years.
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13
January
2023
| 17:02 Europe/London
The MeerKAT team is awarded the Group Award of the Royal Astronomical Society for a series of spectacular observations in radio astronomy, the highlight being the images of the Galactic Centre region and the spectacular radio bubbles. 
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12
January
2023
| 16:55 Europe/London
Almost a decade after starting observations of the sky in the northern hemisphere in the microwave range, the QUIJOTE Collaboration has presented the most accurate description we have of the polarisation of the emission of the Milky Way at these
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2022
12
December
2022
| 11:01 Europe/London
The RADIOBLOCKS project will develop ‘common building blocks’ to enhance European scientific competitiveness.
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08
December
2022
| 16:00 Europe/London
The very first images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) included a wonderful view of the ‘Southern Ring’, a planetary nebula. A team of astronomers from across the world has studied this image in detail, to see how our own Sun may evolve in
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17
October
2022
| 11:00 Europe/London
The UK has joined an international astronomy mission to search the skies for cosmic origins of the universe.
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21
September
2022
| 12:38 Europe/London
Independent duo targeted nearby galaxies, galaxy groups and galaxy clusters to extend SETI search to extragalactic distances.
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22
July
2022
| 11:53 Europe/London
A new telescope, made up of two identical arrays on opposite sides of the planet, will track down sources of gravitational waves.
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15
July
2022
| 14:44 Europe/London
Human and machine intelligence worked together to find 40,000 ring galaxies, scientists at the National Astronomy Meeting will announce today.
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13
July
2022
| 16:30 Europe/London
The first results from a mammoth astronomy project aimed at mapping out the origins of our 13.8 billion year old universe have been announced today.
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04
July
2022
| 09:34 Europe/London
Jodrell Bank’s ambitious £21.5m development, the First Light Pavilion was officially opened at a special event on the summer solstice, Tuesday 21 June in the company of over 100 esteemed guests.
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20
June
2022
| 13:57 Europe/London
An international team of astronomers have for the first time combined the power of 64 radio telescope dishes to detect the faint signatures of neutral hydrogen gas across cosmological scales. 
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