University of Manchester - Archive (astronomy)
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2023
13
January
2023
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17:02
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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
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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 wave...
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2022
08
December
2022
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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
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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
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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
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11:53
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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
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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
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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
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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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22
June
2022
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13:42
Europe/London
Researchers have called for a more sustainable approach to the UK’s National Space Strategy in a new publication from The University of Manchester, On Space....
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20
June
2022
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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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15
June
2022
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10:55
Europe/London
Astronomers in the UK announce today that have established how galaxies like our own Milky Way formed over 10 billion years of cosmic time through an abundance of separate galaxies colliding together....
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10
June
2022
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16:25
Europe/London
Jodrell Bank’s newest attraction, the First Light Pavilion opened its doors to visitors for the first time last weekend, with over 1000 people exploring the stunning new building over the Jubilee weekend....
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30
May
2022
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16:01
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An international team of scientists have discovered a strange radio emitting neutron star, which rotates extremely slowly, completing one rotation every 76 seconds....
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12
April
2022
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10:40
Europe/London
More than £15million has been awarded to UK institutions, including The University of Manchester, which are delivering the crucial software ‘brain’ of the world’s largest radio telescope....
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01
April
2022
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12:13
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A new study by an international team of astrophysicists, led by the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics has presented the amazing new discovery of a near-identical twin of Jupiter orbiting a star at a colossal distance of 17,000 light years from Ear...
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10
March
2022
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12:16
Europe/London
The University of Manchester’s Jodrell Bank is set to open its highly-anticipated First Light Pavilion on 4 June 2022....
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10
March
2022
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11:00
Europe/London
Astronomers have observed primordial material that may be giving birth to three planetary systems around a binary star in unprecedented detail....
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23
February
2022
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17:11
Europe/London
Astronomers find evidence for the tightest-knit supermassive black hole duo observed to date....
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2021
13
December
2021
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17:00
Europe/London
Researchers at The University of Manchester have helped conduct a 16-year long experiment to challenge Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
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27
October
2021
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10:49
Europe/London
An international research team has today published a detailed analysis of a candidate signal for the since-long sought gravitational wave background (GWB) due to in-spiralling supermassive black-hole binaries. Although a detection cannot be claimed y...
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08
October
2021
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10:55
Europe/London
Researchers at The University of Manchester, have been involved in an international collaboration to analyse the age and history of some of the Moon’s youngest lava flows.
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15
September
2021
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11:19
Europe/London
A 900-year-old cosmic mystery surrounding the origins of a famous supernova first spotted over China in 1181AD has finally been solved, according to an international team of astronomers. New research published today (September 15, 2021) says that a f...
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06
July
2021
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01:01
Europe/London
Tantalising evidence has been uncovered for a mysterious population of ‘free-floating’ planets which may be alone in deep space, unbound to any host star.
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25
May
2021
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09:37
Europe/London
The University of Manchester is leading a multi-million pound project to launch a satellite as part of a forthcoming SpaceX mission this coming summer.
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28
April
2021
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09:00
Europe/London
Using the sensitivity of one of the SKA precursor telescopes, a group of radio astronomers explored the central regions of some globular clusters in search of new pulsars.
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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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