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Images of actors playing Caroline and John Herschel, visitors looking at exhibits in the Royal Astronomical Society library, and queues of people outside New Burlington House.
Herschels join hundreds of people for RAS Open House
Hundreds of people joined the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) in celebrating 150 years at New Burlington House with a special Open House festival this past weekend. Members of the public were treated to guided tours of the Society’s London HQ in...
Gamma-ray bursts (like the one depicted in this artist’s impression) are the most violent explosions in the Universe, releasing more energy than the Sun would in 10 billion years.
Huge gamma-ray burst collection ‘rivals 250-year-old Messier catalogue’
Hundreds of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been recorded as part of an enormous global effort so extensive it "rivals the catalogue of deep-sky objects created by Messier 250 years ago", astronomers say. GRBs are the most violent explosions in the...