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Project to provide scientists with access to worlds largest highenergy gammaray observatory
https://le.ac.uk/news/2016/october/project-to-provide-scientists-with-access-to-worlds-largest-high-energy-gamma-ray-observatory
Our University is part of a new project that will provide scientists with access to the world’s largest and most sensitive high-energy gamma-ray observatory. CTA is a global initiative to build the world’s largest and most sensitive high-energy gamma-ray observatory.
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Phenomenal space explosion astonishes Leicester researchers and shines a light on our own galaxy
https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/march/gamma-ray-burst-swift
University of Leicester researchers have played crucial roles in discovering and analysing a gamma-ray burst at least 10 times brighter than anything NASA’s Swift mission has seen before.
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Exploring explosions in space
https://le.ac.uk/research/stories/space-power/making-waves
Exploring gamma-ray bursts, the enormous, distant explosions in space.
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Sketch Engine
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2012/05/24/sketch-engine/
Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2012 We now have a new subscription to Sketch Engine.
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Transient Astrophysics
https://le.ac.uk/physics/research/astrophysics/transient-astrophysics
At Leicester we study explosive transients such as Gamma-Ray Bursts, the sources of gravitational waves and activity connected to galactic nuclei.
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Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory
https://le.ac.uk/physics/research/projects/swift
The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory data centre is hosted at the University of Leicester, and was initially designed to follow up Gamma-Ray bursts.
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Expedition 318: Wilkes Land Glacial History
https://le.ac.uk/iodp/expeditions/2010-11/wilkes-land
January 2010 - March 2010 From January to March 2010, the JOIDES Resolution sailed on a two months expedition to Wilkes Land, Antarctica. The aim of the expedition was to explore the history of Antarctic climate over the past 35 million years.
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Activities and events
https://le.ac.uk/wordsworth-2020/events
Find out about past events and future events for the Wordsworth 2020 AHRC funded project for English research at Leicester.
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Cosmic blast hunter SVOM to launch with optimal optics from Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/june/svom-mxt
Mission to find gamma ray bursts is latest to use technology from University of Leicester in x-ray optics
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Photographs of 19 April 2018 event
https://le.ac.uk/crime-representation-anglophone-caribbean/events/april-19-2018/april-19-2018-photographs
See the photographs from the workshops held on 19 April 2018 for the Crime and its Representation in the Anglophone Caribbean project.