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New Director for ESA
July 15, 2015
Johann-Dietrich Woerner is the new Director General of The European Space Agency (ESA). Mr Woerner – former chief of the Executive Board of the German Aerospace Center – has taken...
Eduardo Miranda and musical slime mould
July 15, 2015
A musical ‘duet’ between slime mould and a scientist creates beautiful and unusual sounds. Professor Eduardo Miranda at Plymouth University, a composer working at the crossroads of music and science,...
NOEMA observatory
July 13, 2015
European scientists have discovered a previously unknown region of extreme star formation in the 'Medusa merger' a luminous collision of two galaxies at more than 100 million light years from...
Top physics prize awarded to Professor Yablonovitch
July 7, 2015
The Institute of Physics has awarded its’ highest International award – the Isaac Newton Medal and Prize – to Professor Eli Yablonovitch for his work on photonic crystals. Professor Yablonovitch...
Spiral Planetary Nebula
June 26, 2015
The strange S-shape that gives the Spiral Planetary Nebula its common name is seen clearly in this composite image.
Elusive magnetospheric plasma tubes finally recorded
June 26, 2015
After 60 years of research, astronomers have finally observed structures of plasma – one of the four fundamental states of matter – in the magnetosphere. Scientists at the University of...
Martian glass may reveal ancient life
June 24, 2015
By using data from Mars, geologists have discovered evidence for the presence of glass which may be key to finding past life. Research at Brown University used satellite data from...
What will follow the James Webb Space Telescope?
June 17, 2015
Scientists are calling for a giant space telescope to follow the James Webb Space Telescope – Professor Martin Barstow, former president of the Royal Astronomical Society, tells us about the...
Solar flare
June 12, 2015
On 11th March, NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a significant burst of radiation known as a solar flare.
Back in time to discover farthest galaxy
June 12, 2015
Data collected from several space telescopes has allowed astronomers to locate the most distant galaxy currently measured. A research team led by Yale University used data from W.M. Keck Observatory...
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