CAR news and press releases

Press releases and media information

• 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)
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• 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).