National Space Centre hosts conference highlighting cultural significance of the night sky

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Student bring innovative solutions to complex space challenges like living on the moon, in our Enterprise Challenge hosted by Space Park Leicester
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You can still listen to Prof Emma Bunce (Prof Emma Bunce) talking about Mercury on In Our Time for the next year here: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

🛰️ Hear Prof Emma Bunce (Prof Emma Bunce) talking about a mission to Mercury on 'In Our Time' tomorrow at 9am. 🛰️

Is it cloudy where you are? Mapping the weather on a planet 280 light-years away☁️

An international team of researchers, including astronomers from the University of Leicester, used JWST to measure wind speeds of 5000 mph on Wasp-43b!

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The first images taken by an explosion-hunting space telescope that was built with the help of University of Leicester scientists have been released. le.ac.uk/news/2024/apri…

We welcome applications for STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowships in Leicester! Details and provisional deadlines for expressions of interest can be found here: staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastrono…

We are one of five UK higher education institutes to receive a share of £100,000 from The UK Institute for Technical Skills & Strategy to help tackle the aging workforce gap in physics.

University of Leicester has received £20,000 to support a technical apprenticeship in Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester.

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Citizen scientists discover two new planets in the Next-Generation Transit Survey. Get involved here: zooniverse.org/projects/mschw… Read about these discoveries here: le.ac.uk/news/2024/apri…

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell will give the second of our Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture Series on Tuesday 14th May, on the University of Leicester campus. le.ac.uk/news/2024/apri…

Did you hear about the black hole discovered less than 2000 light-years from Earth, revealed last week? Astronomers Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester/Space Park Leicester were part of the ESA Gaia team that uncovered it! 🔭

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Very happy to welcome Rong Tian from Wuhan University to Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester! Rong will work with Dikshita Meggi, the Martian group and myself for the next couple of years and we are excited to have her with us! 💫✨🛰️

Evidence from the fragments of an asteroid narrows down the time that the Solar System's giant planets took up their current positions to between 60-100 million years after its formation.

#CitizensOfChange | Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester | Space Park Leicester

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The ESA Gaia discovery of a black hole 33 times more massive than the sun took everyone by surprise, including University of Leicester scientists who work on the data analysis: le.ac.uk/news/2024/apri…

The Solar system's giant planets shifted their orbits 60-100 million years after its birth. New research lead by our lecturer Chrysa Avdellidou. le.ac.uk/news/2024/apri…

We have some additional opportunities for University of Leicester 2nd-4th year students to do a paid summer research project. Details here: staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastrono…

We have joined instagram! Follow uniofleicesterphysics (instagram.com/uniofleicester…) to see what our students are up to and the science that we do!

News | Space Park Leicester has been selected to host one of three new regional offices for the UK Space Agency, as part of its national expansion to support the space sector across the UK

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#CitizensOfChange | UK Space Agency Sarah Davies Paul Bate