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- Herts Secures Another Prestigious Astrophysics Research Fellowship (06/24 Koudmani)
- STFC announces latest Ernest Rutherford Fellows (05/24 Mingo)
- Herts alumna wins prestigious science funding to explore the role that black-hole jets play in the evolution of our galaxy (05/24 Mingo)
- University of Hertfordshire scientist solves the riddle of nitrogen-rich galaxy 440 million light years away – unlocking how our own galaxy developed (03/24 Kobayashi)
- Botswana’s first ever Astrophysics doctorate graduates from University of Hertfordshire (02/24 Ntwaetsile, Geach)
- 'Old smoker' giant red star discovered during 10-year galaxy study (01/24 Lucas)
- Pioneering Herts astronomers win 2024 Royal Astronomical Society awards for research into early galaxies (01/24 Kobayashi, Lovell)
- Herts astronomers make remarkable new discovery using James Webb Telescope (01/24 Burningham)
- Astrophysics research at Herts receives £3 million funding boost (11/23 CAR)
- Galactic archaeology uncovers the dramatic history of our next-door neighbour, the Andromeda galaxy (10/23 Kobayashi)
- Furthest ever detection of a galaxy’s magnetic field (09/24 Geach)
- First stars in the universe formed in groups, machine-learning study reveals (04/23 Kobayashi)
- Astronomers solve a 60-year mystery of quasars – the most powerful objects in the Universe (04/23 Pierce)
- Radioactive isotopes reach Earth by surfing supernova blast waves, scientists discover (02/23 Kobayashi)
- Scientists are now a step closer to understanding the origins of heavy elements in our Galaxy (02/23 Kobayashi)
- James Webb Space Telescope 'fingerprints' earliest galaxies (12/22 Curtis-Lake)
- Curious Kids: what is exotic matter, and could we use it to make wormholes? (09/22 Devereux)
- Curious Kids: how likely is it that there are parallel universes and other Earths? (06/22 Smart)
- Most distant star to date spotted – but how much further back in time could we see? (04/22 Devereux)
- Rewriting the history of the Universe - The James Webb Space Telescope: a new age for astronomy (01/22 Curtis-Lake)
- James Webb Space Telescope: How will it work? - BBC News (12/21 Curtis-Lake)
- 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).