Prof. S. M. Razaullah Ansari and Prof. S. Zillur Rahman

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Professor S. M. Razaullah Ansari, 1932-2023

The Royal Astronomical Society offers its condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Professor Shaikh Mohammad Razaullah Ansari, who has died at the age of 90. Prof. Ansari was a well-known historian of science...

The artist's impression shows a source of bright yellow-white light against the dark backdrop of space. Coming from the centre of the light source is a conical jet that is blue in colour. Faint, smaller galaxies are seen in the background of the image,

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Galaxy changes classification as jet changes direction

A team of international astronomers have discovered a galaxy that has changed classification due to unique activity within its core. The galaxy, named PBC J2333.9-2343, was previously classified as a radio galaxy, but the new...

RAS President writes to government about 'surrender' of R&D funding

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Professor Gillian Wright in the workshops at the UK Astronomy Technology Centre, Edinburgh

Professor Gillian Wright CBE wins Caroline Herschel Medal

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An artist's impression of a large blue-grey galaxy in space, surrounded very closely by 5 smaller satellite galaxies which appear grey in colour. Faint background stars are seen surrounding all of the galaxies.

Distant galaxy mirrors the early Milky Way

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An image of several distant galaxies in space. They appear as small different coloured circles and ovals. An image of the galaxy GHZ2/GLASS-z12 is overlaid on the image. It appears orange in colour and is circular in shape.

Astronomers confirm age of most distant galaxy with oxygen

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An image of dark green and blue filaments against the dark backdrop of space. In between these filaments are tiny yellow dots. Overlaid on the image is a small circular diagram of the Milky Way galaxy.

Milky Way found to be more unique than previously thought

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The Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society

Royal Astronomical Society unveils 2023 award winners

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Announcements

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Professor S. M. Razaullah Ansari, 1932-2023

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Galaxy changes classification as jet changes direction

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RAS President writes to government about 'surrender' of R&D funding

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Professor Gillian Wright CBE wins Caroline Herschel Medal

An orange hued galaxy with a bright white star visible in the centre against the black backdrop of space. Fainter stars are seen surrounding the galaxy and in the background.

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Next Generation Interferometric Image Reconstruction: call for papers

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Royal Astronomical Society unveils 2023 award winners

Events and Dates for the Diary

Apr 2023

Friends of RAS (Only) Lecture - TBA

Thursday, 13 of April 2023 - 13:00

Friends of the RAS

Apr 2023

Understanding Solar System evolution using outer Solar System samples

Friday, 14 of April 2023 - 10:30

RAS Meetings

Apr 2023

Evidence for supermassive black hole binaries

Friday, 14 of April 2023 - 10:30

RAS Meetings

Apr 2023

RAS Ordinary Meeting April 2023

Friday, 14 of April 2023 - 16:00

RAS Meetings

March 2023

Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
27	28	1	2	3	4	5

6	7	8	9	10	11	12
				Solar control of energy transport and deposition in the terrestrial magnetosphere - ionosphere system Harvesting spectroscopic and time series data with machine learning and artificial intelligence RAS Ordinary Meeting March 2023	Connecting the dots: learning the night sky with constellations and circuits
13	14	15	16	17	18	19

20	21	22	23	24	25	26
	Unveiling the Dark Universe with the Dark Energy Survey		Friends of RAS Lecture - WEAVE: The WHT's new wide-field spectroscopy facility
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