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- One of the largest telescopes for students in the UK is installed at Bayfordbury Observatory (11/21 Campbell, Rolfe)
- Astronomers make most distant detection yet of fluorine in star-forming galaxy (11/21 Franco, Coppin, Geach, Kobayashi)
- Bringing the JWST to life in the UK (09/21 Curtis-Lake)
- Most detailed-ever images of galaxies revealed by LOFAR (09/21 Harwood, Hardcastle)
- Thank exploding stars for our galaxy’s gold (07/21 Kobayashi)
- Astronomers spot a ‘blinking giant’ near the centre of the Galaxy (06/21 Lucas)
- Centre for Astrophysics Research awarded £1m to fund their world-leading work (12/20 Coppin, Hardcastle)
- Longest known exposure photograph ever captured using a beer can (12/20 Bayfordbury Observatory)
- Breakthrough in cloud-free surveillance technology set to provide enhanced crop intelligence for UK’s agriculture sector (10/20 Geach, Smith)
- Gold in the cosmos is an astronomical mystery (09/20 Kobayashi)
- Astrophysics student from University of Hertfordshire awarded first grant from innovative new scholarship programme (07/20 Garratt)
- Super-Earth planets detected orbiting nearby star (06/20 Jones)
- The INTEGRAL/SPI 26Al Signal from the Scorpius-Centaurus region (09/18 Krause)
- Supermassive stars may have been formed from old star clusters (06/18 Krause)
- Planet found in habitable zone around nearest star (08/16 Jones, Tuomi)
- Blast from black hole in a galaxy far, far away (02/16 Hardcastle)
- Astronomers gaze upon the oldest stars in the galaxy (11/15 Kobayashi)
- Astronomers discover how lowly dwarf galaxy becomes star-forming powerhouse (09/15 Brinks)
- Astronomers Map Dark Matter Throughout the Entire Universe (10/13, Geach)
- Hubble Sees a Cosmic Caterpillar (08/13, Wright)
- Three Planets in Habitable Zone of Nearby Star (06/13, Tuomi)
BBC article - Breaking the low-metallicity barrier – molecules in dwarf galaxies (03/13, Brinks)
- Herschel's new view on giant planet formation (03/12, Riaz)
- NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) for 2012, January 21. (01/12 Valkenborgh, Jones).
- Leading experts explain how far the field of exoplanet detection has advanced since the first confirmed detection in the early '90s (06/11 Jones).
- RoPACS Astrium collaboration helps ECHO mission to ESA selection (02/11 Frith, Pinfield).