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• Earth Day: National Space Centre launches Home Planet gallery

  Date: 22 Apr 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/home-planet

  The next generation of climate change superheroes discovered the importance of our home in space at the launch of a new National Space Centre...

• Leicester space scientists celebrate milestone moment for James Webb Space Telescope

  Date: 14 Apr 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/miri-cooldown

  The cooling down of the UK’s main contribution to the James Webb Space Telescope has been hailed as a milestone moment by its creators at the...

• Neptune is cooler than we thought: Study reveals unexpected changes in atmospheric temperatures

  Date: 11 Apr 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/neptune-temperature

  New research led by space scientists at the University of Leicester has revealed how temperatures in Neptune’s atmosphere have unexpectedly...

• Leicester space pioneers return to unveil new Space Research Centre

  Date: 6 Apr 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/april/space-research-centre

  Two of Leicester’s first space scientists have returned to open the region’s state-of-the-art Space Research Centre, more than 60 years on.

• Earth Observation research detects methane over Poland’s coal mines

  Date: 21 Mar 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/methane-mines

  Data from the Tropomi instrument onboard the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite has been used by Leicester-based Earth Observation experts to detect...

• Space Park Leicester launched by British astronaut Tim Peake

  Date: 14 Mar 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/space-park-launch

  UK astronaut Tim Peake officially opened Leicester’s pioneering space research, innovation and teaching cluster at a special ceremony on Monday.

• Tim Peake to feature on expert panel: ‘What can space do for us?’

  Date: 9 Mar 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/space-park-conversations-tech

  Experts from the worlds of science and technology including ESA astronaut Tim Peake will join a special panel discussion at the launch of Space...

• Webb Fellowship awarded for the study of giant planets

  Date: 1 Mar 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/march/webb-fellow

  An early-career planetary scientist has been awarded the third-ever Webb Fellowship and will study the atmospheres of giant planets using the...

• Major milestone caps off ‘amazing few weeks’ for JWST scientists

  Date: 21 Feb 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/jwst-image-array

  Leicester scientists have shared their excitement at the latest major milestone for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), the most advanced space...

• Saturn’s high-altitude winds generate an extraordinary aurorae, study finds

  Date: 8 Feb 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/february/saturn-aurorae

  Leicester space scientists have discovered a never-before-seen mechanism fuelling huge planetary aurorae at Saturn.