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The largest multi-object spectroscopic survey facility in the southern hemisphere, which UCL engineers helped design and build, has taken its first observations.

We are delighted to announce the winners of this year's CPS Outreach and Engagement Awards, which were presented at our recent Summer Meeting.

The newly released first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile mark the start of a ten-year mission involving our very own Prof. Joachimi and Dr Hang to create an ultra-high-definition time-lapse record of the Universe and help to pin down what dark energy might be.

Last week, we hosted the eagerly anticipated and hugely fun Lego Building Battle! Four teams, twelve builders and a room full of spectators . . .

The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), which involves UCL researchers, has released its most detailed analysis yet of dark energy, the mysterious force driving the universe’s accelerating expansion.

The Astro group, in collaboration with the Shift25 initiative, are offering 2 studentships to Year 12 or Year 13 students interested in pursuing research projects over the summer. Applicants should prepare their applications with help from a Sponsoring Teacher at their school.

Your Universe is UCL's annual festival of Astronomy and Planetary Science, which this year is being held in conjunction with the Centre for Planetary Sciences with venues at UCL and Birkbeck in the he

The Astrophysics group are offering two studentships to undergraduates interested in pursuing research projects over the summer.

Professor Jonathan Tennyson has been awarded the society’s Gold Medal, its highest honour, while Dr Paola Pinilla and Dr Niall Jeffrey have received the Price Medal and Early Career Award respectively.

The way that nearly six million galaxies have clustered over 11 billion years lines up with what Einstein’s theory of general relativity predicts, according to a new study of data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), involving UCL researchers.

This year the SRW lecture will be given by the prestigious Dr Makenzie B. Lystrup (Center Director, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA) on Wednesday 13th November.

On May 28, CNES has officially confirmed the balloon-borne project BISOU for Phase A. The study will be carried out over the next two years and marks a transformational step towards an ambitious space-borne CMB spectrometer in the ESA Voyage 2050 program.

Professor Richard Ellis has been elected as an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of his “distinguished and continuing achievements in original research”.

The Astro Bake-Off took place on Thursday 18th April in the beautiful Haldane Room. We were presented with 9 entries, all of which were absolutely stunning, captured the theme wonderfully and were out of this world - pun intended!

Dr Johannes Heyl, alumnus at the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Centre for Data Intensive Science and Industry, was awarded the 2024 MERAC Prize for the Best Doctoral Thesis in New Technologies (Computational).