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Dr Stephen Feeney

RAS Michael Penston Thesis Prize for 2012: Runner-up prize awarded to Dr Stephen Feeney

Dr Stephen Feeney has been awarded the runner-up prize for the Michael Penston Thesis Prize 2012. This Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) prize is awarded to the best doctoral thesis in Astronomy and Astrophysics; Stephen's thesis was entitled ‘Novel Algorithms for Early Universe Cosmology'. More...

Dr Nick Achilleos

ESA selects instruments to be flown on its icy moons mission

 The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer mission (JUICE) will study Jupiter and its large, ice/ocean-bearing moons. JUICE is planned to launch in 2022 and arrive in 2030. Dr Nick Achilleos (Astrophysics) is part of the J-MAG Consortium, an international team of investigators who have successfully proposed one of the 11 scientific experiments to be flown on board this mission. More...

An annotated version of Herschel's view of Betelgeuse. Image credit: ESA/Herschel/PACS/MESS.

Betelgeuse braces for a collision

However you pronounce its name*, the star Betelgeuse is hard to miss on a clear winter's night. Representing the top left shoulder of Orion the Hunter it blazes a bright red colour. At over 600 light years away Betelgeuse is not particularly close, but it shines 100,000 times as brightly as our Sun.  More...

The Crab Nebula as seen in visible (left), showing the glow from hot gas, and far-infrared (right) showing hot (blue/green) and cool (yellow/orange) dust shining in the remnant. Image credit: ESA/Herschel/SPIRE/PACS/MESS (Far-IR); NASA/ESA/STScI (Visible)

Dust Factory in the Crab Nebula revealed by the Herschel Space Observatory

Herschel has produced an intricate view of the remains of a star that died in a stellar explosion a millennium ago. It has provided further proof that the interstellar dust which lies throughout our Galaxy is created when massive stars reach the end of their lives. More...


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