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Royal Mail bicentennial stamps 2020
Royal Mail stamps celebrate RAS bicentennial
Royal Mail today (4 February) announced "Visions of the Universe", a set of eight postage stamps marking the 200th anniversary of the foundation of the Royal Astronomical Society. The stamps, created by artist Robert Ball in collaboration with the...
Mary Somerville from RAS collection
Mary Somerville features in Google Doodle
The Google Doodle for 2 February 2020 celebrates Mary Somerville, the Scottish polymath and science writer, and with Caroline Herschel, the joint first ever woman to be made an honorary member of the Royal Astronomical Society. Born in Jedburgh...
Mars in 2018
Coming this November: National Astronomy Week to mark best view of Mars until 2033
A National Astronomy Week (NAW) will be held in the UK from Saturday 14 November to Sunday 22 November 2020. The aim of the week is to celebrate the close approach of Mars, and to give members of the public the chance to see the red planet in closeup...
Artist’s impression of gamma-ray burst with orbiting binary star
Stars need a partner to spin Universe’s brightest explosions
When it comes to the biggest and brightest explosions seen in the Universe, University of Warwick astronomers have found that it takes two stars to make a gamma-ray burst. New research solves the mystery of how stars spin fast enough to create...
Professor Sandra Moore Faber
Leading astronomers and geophysicists honoured in RAS bicentenary year
The Royal Astronomical Society is pleased to announce the winners of its medals and prizes for 2020, the bicentenary of its foundation. Each year the Society recognises significant achievement in the fields of astronomy and geophysics through these...