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Single burst of star formation created Milky Way’s central bulge
New research has found that the majority of stars in our galaxy’s central bulge formed in a single burst of star formation more than 10 billion years ago. To reach this conclusion, astronomers surveyed millions of stars across 200 square degrees of s…
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Astronomers turn up the heavy metal to shed light on star formation
Astronomers from The University of Western Australia’s node of the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) have developed a new way to study star formation in galaxies from the dawn of time to today. The new work appears in a paper…
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MNRAS moves online-only after almost 200 years of print
The RAS would like to announce that, after 193 years in print, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS) has now moved to online-only publication. In recent years, the demand for print has dwindled and very few choose to access the…
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Q&A: Prof. David Kaplan
The newest member of the MNRAS editorial board, Prof. David Kaplan received his bachelor’s degree from Cornell University and his doctorate from the California Institute of Technology, and is now an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin…
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RAS journals: COVID-19 update
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) and Oxford University Press (OUP) continue to monitor the COVID-19 pandemic. Our first priority is to contribute to the global effort to contain and eliminate the new coronavirus. As a result, our editorial staff…
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MNRAS Author Workshop: Getting your paper published
The presentation slides from the 2019 National Astronomy Meeting Author Workshop are now available for download!   Each year at the National Astronomy Meeting, the RAS runs a publishing workshop as a guide to good practice in writing research…
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The Opinion Piece: Impact Factor
In the third and final installment of The Opinion Piece series, editorial intern Joe Davies gives us his take on the sometimes controversial way of measuring journal quality: the Impact Factor.   The term `impact factor’ often draws either…
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The Opinion Piece: Open Access
In the second of The Opinion Piece series, editorial intern Joe Davies looks at Open Access, and explores the issues on both sides of the discussion.   Even mentioning the term `Open Access’ is enough to elicit a response in much of the scientific…
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The Opinion Piece: How Blind Should Peer Review Be?
In the first of The Opinion Piece series, editorial intern Joe Davies explores the issues involved in anonymous peer review, and asks: how anonymous should it be?   The peer review process is the back-bone of the scientific method. If an author…
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Policy update: Excess page charge for MNRAS papers exceeding 20 pages
Papers have traditionally been published in MNRAS with no page charges for the authors. However, the rapid increase in the number of submissions in recent years, and the rise in the total number of pages published per annum -- with its cost…
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A summer internship at the RAS
Yasmin Chowdhury joined the team at Burlington House over the summer – and discovered what it takes to get papers into the journals, and science out to policy-makers.   I have always been interested in science from a young age. I find that there’s…
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Welcome to the new RAS Journals section!
Welcome to the new and improved Journals section! Here you can find details of the two main journals published by the RAS (Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and Geophysical Journal International), as well as the in-house magazine of…