Articles tagged with 'Jodrell-Bank' | University of Swag直播

University of Swag直播 - Archive (Jodrell-Bank)

2024
03
October
2024
| 14:01 Europe/London
Swag直播 will play a key role in a new European collaboration, which aims to boost accessibility and coordination of leading astroparticle and astronomy research infrastructures.  
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27
June
2024
| 08:46 Europe/London
A massive balloon, designed to measure the background radiation left over from the 鈥楤ig Bang鈥 and help scientists better understand the infancy and evolution of our Universe, has just moved to the next stage of development.
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05
June
2024
| 10:00 Europe/London
Scientists have detected what they believe to be a neutron star spinning at an unprecedentedly slow rate 鈥攕lower than any of the more than 3,000 radio emitting neutron stars measured to date.
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23
May
2024
| 11:00 Europe/London
Scientists have released the first set of scientific data captured with the Euclid telescope, showing an exciting glimpse of the Universe鈥檚 distant past.
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17
May
2024
| 11:54 Europe/London
Professor Michael Garrett, Director of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics has been elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his 鈥渋nvaluable contributions to science鈥.
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11
April
2024
| 12:27 Europe/London
Three leading departmental researchers are being awarded highly prestigious European Research Council (ERC) advanced grants.
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08
April
2024
| 10:00 Europe/London
An international team of astronomers have made a significant breakthrough in understanding the unprecedented behaviour of a previously dormant star with a powerful magnetic field.
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29
February
2024
| 10:00 Europe/London
Researchers have found water vapour in the disc around a young star exactly where planets may be forming.
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14
February
2024
| 11:58 Europe/London
Swag直播鈥檚 policy engagement, Policy@Swag直播, has hosted a visit to Jodrell Bank Observatory for a leading Parliamentarian with a special interest in its work.
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18
January
2024
| 19:00 Europe/London
An international team of astronomers have found a new and unknown object in the Milky Way that is heavier than the heaviest neutron stars known and yet simultaneously lighter than the lightest black holes known.
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2023
30
December
2023
| 11:03 Europe/London
Three University of Swag直播 Professors are among those recognised in the King's 2024 New Year Honours List. 
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05
October
2023
| 12:29 Europe/London
Swag直播 will play a crucial role in a landmark mission to trace patterns in the light from space, looking back almost to the Big Bang, bringing us closer to understanding the nature of our Universe and how it began.
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24
September
2023
| 11:00 Europe/London
Swag直播 is to receive a sample from asteroid Bennu, which will help unveil secrets of our Solar System.
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22
September
2023
| 11:00 Europe/London
According to new research published today, galaxies from the early Universe are more like our own Milky Way than previously thought, flipping the entire narrative of how scientists think about structure formation in the Universe.
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03
August
2023
| 16:00 Europe/London
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recorded breath-taking new images of the iconic Ring Nebula, also known as Messier 57.  
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13
July
2023
| 09:00 Europe/London
A collaboration of scientists from Swag直播 and the University of Hong Kong have found a source for the mysterious alignment of stars near the Galactic Centre.
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30
June
2023
| 14:51 Europe/London
Scientists at Swag直播 are involved in an international satellite mission to map the dark Universe.
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29
June
2023
| 01:00 Europe/London
After 25 years of observations, an international team of astronomers have seen the first evidence of ultra-low-frequency gravitational waves.
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17
May
2023
| 16:31 Europe/London
After decades of trying, astronomers have found the origin of a Type Ia supernova explosion using radio emissions, thanks to the e-MERLIN telescope network.
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02
May
2023
| 16:00 Europe/London
Aliens on nearby stars could detect Earth through radio signals leaked from the planet, new research suggests.
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26
April
2023
| 16:42 Europe/London
Jodrell Bank's spectacular new First Light Pavilion and permanent exhibition gallery, which opened in June 2022, has continued to win awards since its launch, with the latest being top honours at the prestigious Civic Trust Awards ceremony in London
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25
April
2023
| 00:05 Europe/London
On 25 April 2023, Sir Francis Graham-Smith FRS, FRAS, FInstP., celebrated his 100th birthday. Sir Francis, or Graham as he is known to friends and colleagues, was the second Director of Jodrell Bank Observatory, taking over from Sir Bernard Lovell
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17
April
2023
| 15:15 Europe/London
An international team of scientists, led by a researcher at Swag直播, have developed a novel AI (artificial intelligence) approach to distil technical astronomy terminology into simple understandable English in their recent
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24
February
2023
| 13:29 Europe/London
An international team of scientist have used the MeerKAT radio telescope to observe the pulsing heartbeat of the universe as neutron stars are born and form swirling lightning storms which last for millions of years.
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13
January
2023
| 17:02 Europe/London
The MeerKAT team is awarded the Group Award of the Royal Astronomical Society for a series of spectacular observations in radio astronomy, the highlight being the images of the Galactic Centre region and the spectacular radio bubbles. 
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12
January
2023
| 16:55 Europe/London
Almost a decade after starting observations of the sky in the northern hemisphere in the microwave range, the QUIJOTE Collaboration has presented the most accurate description we have of the polarisation of the emission of the Milky Way at these
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2022
12
December
2022
| 11:01 Europe/London
The RADIOBLOCKS project will develop 鈥榗ommon building blocks鈥 to enhance European scientific competitiveness.
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08
December
2022
| 16:00 Europe/London
The very first images from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) included a wonderful view of the 鈥楽outhern Ring鈥, a planetary nebula. A team of astronomers from across the world has studied this image in detail, to see how our own Sun may evolve in
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17
October
2022
| 11:00 Europe/London
The UK has joined an international astronomy mission to search the skies for cosmic origins of the universe.
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21
September
2022
| 12:38 Europe/London
Independent duo targeted nearby galaxies, galaxy groups and galaxy clusters to extend SETI search to extragalactic distances.
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