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• Most distant detection of a black hole swallowing a star

  Date: 1 Dec 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/december/black-hole-swallowing-star

  A University of Leicester astronomer has led an international team that determined the distance of the furthest black hole consuming a star...

• New telescope to be the ‘GOTO’ for gravitational wave events

  Date: 21 Jul 2022

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2022/july/goto

  Leicester space scientists will contribute to a huge new telescope, made up of identical arrays on opposite sides of the planet, to track down...

• Astronomers look ahead to first light from JWST

  Date: 24 May 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/may/jwst-time-allocation

  Leicester space scientists will join a group of global experts investigating fundamental questions about our Universe, after being granted time to...

• Scientists deliver world-first lobster X-ray telescope mirror

  Date: 16 Apr 2021

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/april/svom-satellite-lobster-mirror

  Space scientists at the University of Leicester have delivered a completely new type of super-lightweight X-ray telescope mirror to study the...

• ISS Commander shows support for University of Leicester

  Date: 8 Aug 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/august/09-iss-commander-shows-support-for-university-of-leicester

  The Commander of the International Space Station (ISS), Alexei Ovchinin who took over command in July 2019 has thrilled students and academics at...

• Space School celebrates 30 years since launch

  Date: 24 Jul 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/25-space-school-30-years

  Space School UK is celebrating its 30th anniversary in July 2019, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 Moon landings.

• Leicester Professor to lead UK Space Science Strategy

  Date: 24 Jul 2019

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/july/25-martin-barstow-uksa

  Professor Martin Barstow has been appointed as Chair of the UK Space Agency’s Science Programme Advisory Committee, leading the UK's approach to...

• Planetary astronomers identify cycle of spectacular disturbances at Jupiter’s equator

  Date: 19 Dec 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/december/19-planetary-astronomers-identify-cycle-spectacular-disturbances-jupiters-equator

  Scientists at the University of Leicester and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory predict next parting of Jupiter’s veil of clouds for 2019 A regular...

• Revisiting Holst’s Jupiter a hundred years later

  Date: 1 Oct 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/october/02-jupiter-planets-suite

  Reworking of Jupiter from Holst’s Planets suite benefits from insights from a University of Leicester planetary scientist.

• Matter detected falling into a black hole at 30 percent of the speed of light

  Date: 20 Sep 2018

  https://le.ac.uk/news/2018/september/21-matter-falling-into-a-black-hole

  A team of astronomers led by our Department of Physics and Astronomy report the first detection of matter falling into a black hole at 30% of the...