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What's New
- Comet chaser mission moves from blueprint to reality
- A massive new harvest of astronomical data
- Heavens need environmental protection like the Earth
- Bringing the James Webb Space Telescope to life in the UK
- Astronomy survey to revolutionise capability of understanding changing celestial phenomena
- Major success for Edinburgh Astrophysicists with the James Webb Space Telescope
- Ultra-sensitive radio images reveal thousands of star-forming galaxies in early Universe
- Triple success for astronomy researchers
- Possible light sparked by colliding black holes
- Astronomers measure wind speed on a brown dwarf
- Scientists discover supernova that outshines all others
- Neil Turok, the Inaugural Higgs Chair of Theoretical Physics, brings in new focus on the quantum universe
- New telescope instrument sheds light on Dark Energy
- The violent history of the big galaxy next door
- Dr Alex Amon wins the Royal Astronomical Society thesis prize
- Dr Anna Lisa Varri has won the 2019 Caroline Herschel Prize Lectureship
- Submillimetre astronomy has lost Prof Wayne Holland
- Dr Anna Lisa Varri awarded Future Leaders Fellowship
- Exhibition charts the work of 'Edinburgh's Forgotten Astronomer' Charles Piazzi Smyth
- Successful IOP Juno Champion award renewal
- Astronomers release first part of deep all-sky radio survey with LOFAR
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