University of Manchester - Archive (astronomy)
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2021
09
March
2021
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11:11
Europe/London
A team of UK scientists, guided by meteor specialists, have recovered pieces of an extremely rare meteorite, a type which has never fallen anywhere in the UK before.
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03
February
2021
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15:40
Europe/London
An international research team including members from The University of Manchester has shown that a rapidly rotating neutron star is at the core of a celestial object now known as PSR J2039−5617.
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28
January
2021
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15:33
Europe/London
New research from The University of Manchester suggests using a strategy linked to cooperative game playing known as ‘game theory’ in order to maximise the potential of finding intelligent alien life.
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2020
03
November
2020
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15:44
Europe/London
If Jodrell Bank could pick up interference from a phone signal on Mars, how would it fare with an entire 4G network on the Moon?
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22
October
2020
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11:13
Europe/London
After more than two decades, an international research team has identified a galactic mystery source of gamma rays: a heavy neutron star with a very low mass companion orbiting it.
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17
September
2020
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19:00
Europe/London
Astronomers have captured the first ever detailed images of unusual stellar winds which surround dying stars as they reach the end of their existence. The extraordinary images show mesmerising shapes which solve a century-long mystery about the death...
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14
September
2020
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16:00
Europe/London
An international team of astronomers including UK scientists from Manchester and Cardiff, today announced the discovery of a rare molecule – phosphine – in the clouds of Venus. On Earth, this gas is only made industrially, or by microbes that thrive ...
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29
June
2020
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09:35
Europe/London
In late 2019 the red supergiant closest to Earth, Betelgeuse, began to rapidly fade in brightness. Initially thought to be a sign that the star was about to go supernova or that it experienced a dust storm, scientists have now found that it was cause...
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10
June
2020
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09:01
Europe/London
An international collaboration of scientists has recorded the most accurate confirmation to date for one of the cornerstones of Einstein’s theory of general relativity, ‘the universality of free fall’.
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08
June
2020
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01:01
Europe/London
An investigation into one of the current great mysteries of astronomy has come to the fore thanks to a four-year observing campaign conducted at the Jodrell Bank Observatory.
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04
June
2020
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09:32
Europe/London
The iconic Jodrell Bank Observatory at The University of Manchester is taking its first major steps to resume operations after lockdown as part of what is probably the biggest ‘reboot’ in the history of astrophysics.
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15
May
2020
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11:20
Europe/London
Join some of the nation’s foremost scientists, thinkers, historians and social commentators for the University's Lockdown Lectures. . .starting with Professor Brian Cox.
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06
March
2020
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09:00
Europe/London
The first nine Stephen Hawking Fellows, announced today, will continue Professor Stephen Hawking’s legacy by furthering our understanding of the universe and communicating the wonders of science to the public.
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03
March
2020
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11:06
Europe/London
A black hole, ejecting material at close to the speed of light, has been observed using e-MERLIN, the UK’s radio telescope array based at Jodrell Bank Observatory.
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2019
20
November
2019
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09:00
Europe/London
Scientists using the MeerKAT radio telescope have discovered a unique and previously-unseen flare of radio emission from a binary star in our galaxy.
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08
November
2019
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12:30
Europe/London
A new paper by a team of cosmologists suggests that the current model of the Universe needs to be revised.
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24
October
2019
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12:00
Europe/London
Professor Anna Scaife has been awarded a five-year Turing AI Fellowship.
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06
September
2019
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11:56
Europe/London
Researchers have been successful in mapping the topography of both magnetic poles of a pulsar for the first time. This was possible thanks to an effect of gravity described by Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
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05
August
2019
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14:06
Europe/London
A new instrument to help astronomers understand how stars are born is bound for the Large Millimetre Telescope (LMT) in Mexico.
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10
July
2019
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15:15
Europe/London
The Square Kilometre Array Global Headquarters (SKA GHQ), the home of a new intergovernmental organisation created to facilitate global collaboration in radio astronomy, has been formally opened and handed over in a ceremony attended by international...
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07
July
2019
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11:47
Europe/London
Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire has been named as the UK’s newest UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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22
February
2019
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11:19
Europe/London
Astronomers from around the world have combined radio telescopes on five continents, including Jodrell Bank, to prove the existence of a narrow stream of material, known as a jet, emerging from aftermath of a violent merger of neutron stars.
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15
January
2019
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01:00
Europe/London
Scientists have designed and built a prototype particle detector that aims to unlock some of the mysteries surrounding rare cosmic rays that enter Earth’s atmosphere from deep space.
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11
January
2019
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16:00
Europe/London
Two University of Manchester astronomers have been awarded some of the Royal Astronomical Society’s (RAS) most prestigious prizes for their research and work in the field.
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10
January
2019
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14:10
Europe/London
An international team of astrophysicists, including researchers from The University of Manchester’s Jodrell Bank Observatory, have discovered that a remarkable star has been continuously erupting, on an annual basis, for millions of years.
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2018
14
November
2018
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13:41
Europe/London
Jodrell Bank is has released audio recordings of a Soviet space mission from fifty years ago, just as the race to the Moon was approaching the finish line.
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23
October
2018
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02:00
Europe/London
An approximately 14 million year old pulsar star that is the “slowest-spinning” of its kind ever identified has been discovered by a PhD student from The University of Manchester.
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08
October
2018
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07:00
Europe/London
Researchers from The University of Manchester are part of an international team of astronomers that has identified a collision between a white dwarf and a brown dwarf star for the first time.
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18
September
2018
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14:00
Europe/London
The largest liquid-argon neutrino detector in the world has recorded its first particle tracks, signaling the start of a new chapter in the story of the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE).
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06
August
2018
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20:00
Europe/London
The origin of organic matter found in meteorites that formed during the birth of the Solar System 4.5 billion years ago may provide key clues to understanding the birth of life here on Earth.
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