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RAS reflects on 50 years since Apollo 11

Half a century ago the Apollo 11 lunar module touched down on the surface of the Moon. The NASA spacecraft made its descent on 20 July 1969, four days after its launch from the Kennedy Space Center. Six and a half hours later, astronaut Neil...

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Partial lunar eclipse to grace UK evening sky

Tuesday 16 July will see a partial eclipse of the Moon, visible in the UK after sunset. The eclipse, 50 years to the day after the launch of Apollo 11, will also be seen across a large part of Asia, the whole of Africa, the eastern part of South...

Jellyfish galaxy JO201. Credit: Callum Bellhouse and the GASP collaboration

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Black hole brings down curtain on jellyfish galaxy’s star turn

The role of an excited black hole in the death of an exotic ‘jellyfish’ galaxy will be presented today (3 July) by Callum Bellhouse of the University of Birmingham at the RAS National Astronomy Meeting in Lancaster. The supermassive black hole at…