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A New Method to Detect Exoplanets

In recent years, a large number of exoplanets have been found around single ‘normal’ stars. New research shows that there may be exceptions to this trend. Researchers from the Autonomous University of Nuevo León (UANL), the...

Stills from Rebecca Nealon protoplanetary disk simulation

Rocking shadows in protoplanetary discs

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Royal Astronomical Society congratulates JWST team on new images

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A message from the past: UK astronomers comment on the first JWST image

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Black Hole Hunters – A citizen science search for black hole self-lensing

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The life puzzle: the location of land on a planet can affect its habitability

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Undead planets: the unusual conditions of the first exoplanet detection

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MoleGazer: Applying astronomy ideas to mole identification

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Cyborg collaboration finds 40,000 ring galaxies

Image of the Magellanic Cloud, a faint loosely bound galaxy in light blue colours.

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Beyond the Clouds: Finding Galaxies Behind Galaxies

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Space weather will delay your trains

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Beating the system: engaging the “unreachable” on social media

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Rewinding a supernova with machine learning

Events and Dates for the Diary

Oct 2022

Solid-Liquid Interactions in Deep Planetary Interiors

Friday, 14 of October 2022 - 10:30

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Formation, evolution and dispersal of protoplanetary discs

Friday, 14 of October 2022 - 10:30

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RAS Ordinary Meeting - October 2022

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