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RAS Techniques and Instruments Open for Submissions
The Royal Astronomical Society is pleased to announce that it is now accepting submissions for its first new journal in 100 years, RAS Techniques and Instruments (RASTI). The new journal provides an international and open-access forum for high...
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Professor Emma Bunce Wins EGU David Bates Medal
President of the Royal Astronomical Society, Professor Emma Bunce, has been named the winner of the European Geosciences Union David Bates Medal. The medal was established by the EGU Planetary & Solar System Sciences Division in recognition of the...
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New RAS journal invites submissions and reviewers
The new open access RAS journal, RAS Techniques and Instruments (RASTI), is set to open for submissions in November 2021, and invites the astronomy and geoscience communities to make submissions from next month. RAS Techniques and Instruments is a...
The final image of Uranus taken by the Voyager 2 space probe on 25 January 1986. The spacecraft was about 1 million kilometres from the planet at the time.
Public livestream of Uranus, 8-10 October
The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) will host a dedicated livestream of observations of Uranus, led by astronomers and planetary scientists from the University of Leicester, on 8, 9 and 10 October. The scientists will use the NASA Infrared Telescope...
The remains of the Interplanetary Scintillation Array
Professor Antony Hewish, 1924-2021
The Royal Astronomical Society offers its sincere condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of Professor Antony Hewish, who has died at the age of 97. Born in Cornwall, Prof. Hewish served at the Royal Aircraft Establishment and the...
Professor Peter Willmore
Professor Peter Willmore FRAS, 1930-2021
The RAS offers its condolences to the family and friends of Professor Peter Willmore, who died last week in Birmingham. He was a prominent space scientist in the early years of the discipline and led a number of international space activities in...
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RAS 2021-2022 Specialist Discussion Meetings
RAS 2021-2022 Specialist Discussion Meetings. We have a great line up of talks for this coming Specialist Discussion Meetings which will be starting this coming October and running until May 2022. Talks ranging from Galactic magnetic fields, cosmic...
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2021 Patricia Tomkins Undergraduate Prize Winner
The Royal Astronomical Society is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2021 Patricia Tomkins Undergraduate Prize is Darcey Bower of the University of Liverpool. Darcey won the prize for her project “Building a Magnetic Gradiometer as a Tool for...
A Perseid meteor in the same frame as the galaxy M31. The stars of the constellation Perseus are on the left.
Summer stargazing treat as Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak
The Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak on the night of 12-13 August in the UK and Europe, giving skywatchers a potentially impressive summer treat. The meteors are best viewed from the northern hemisphere, and in ideal conditions with no clouds...
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Magnetic fields implicated in the mysterious midlife crisis of stars
Middle-aged stars can experience their own kind of midlife crisis, experiencing dramatic breaks in their activity and rotation rates at about the same age as our Sun, according to new research published today in Monthly Notices of the Royal...
Close-up false colour image of the meteorite 'Block Island'
Meet the Martian meteorite hunters
A team at the Natural History Museum (NHM), London is paving the way for future rovers to search for meteorites on Mars. The scientists are using the NHM’s extensive meteorite collection to test the spectral instruments destined for the ExoMars rover...
Side-by-side images of the planet Mars
Martian global dust storm ended winter early in the south
A dust storm that engulfed the entire Red Planet in 2018 destroyed a vortex of cold air around the Martian south pole and brought an early spring to the hemisphere. By contrast, the storm caused only minor distortions to the polar vortex in the...