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• Leading light in auroras to give prestigious astronomy lecture

  Date: 12 Jan 2024

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/provan-aurora-lecture

  Dr Gabrielle Provan from the University of Leicester is to give the Royal Astronomical Society’s James Dungey Lecture, focusing on the auroral...

• Explosion-hunting telescope tested by Leicester space scientists ready for launch

  Date: 8 Jan 2024

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/einstein-probe-leicester

  University of Leicester experts tested optics for the Einstein Probe, led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS).

• Space instrument gets good vibrations in major step for solar wind mission

  Date: 21 Dec 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/smile

  A cutting-edge x-ray telescope has shaken off a University of Leicester test that put it through the rigours of being launched into space.

• Leicester’s role in historic Mars mission revealed 20 years on

  Date: 19 Dec 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/beagle-2-talk

  The history of the Beagle 2 mission to mars is recounted by the University of Leicester's Professor Mark Sims, who served as Mission Manager

• Gaia: the galactic mapmaker that is leading a ‘silent revolution’

  Date: 18 Dec 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/gaia-anniversary

  University of Leicester scientists mark tenth anniversary of the Gaia space observatory, and its efforts to create a 3D map of our galaxy

• Fire, flood, winds and earthquakes: satellite imagery reveals damage wrought by changing climate

  Date: 7 Dec 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/climate-satellite-imagery

  Earth observation scientists in Leicester release new series of images that paint a picture of our climate vulnerability, released to coincide...

• How Leicester is driving the move from climate talk into climate action

  Date: 6 Dec 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/climate-talk-action

  Professor Sarah Davies, Pro Vice-Chancellor and Head of the College of Science and Engineering at Leicester, discusses the importance of COP28 and...

• Leicester’s commitment to sustainability leads to world rankings rise

  Date: 5 Dec 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/qs-sustainability-rankings

  The University of Leicester has shot up more than 100 places in a league table which ranks the sustainable credentials of universities around the...

• £1.5m funding to create ‘Digital Twin’ model to reduce methane emissions

  Date: 4 Dec 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/december/methane-tropical-wetlands

  A ‘Digital Twin’ for methane emissions from tropical wetlands will be supported by funding to Dr Robert Parker from the University of Leicester...

• Space Park Leicester to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Beagle 2 Mars Lander: lost and found

  Date: 29 Nov 2023

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/beagle-2-lecture

  Professor Mark Sims will give a lecture to mark the 20th anniversary of the landing of the Beagle 2 Mars Lander, held at Space Park Leicester on 8...