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A giant black hole in the Milky Way
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2024/04/30/a-giant-black-hole-in-the-milky-way/
Posted by Physics and Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 30 April 2024 A sleeping giant The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission has discovered a black hole 33 times the mass of the Sun. It is in the constellation Aquila, less than 2000 light-years from Earth.
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Astrophotography Competition Time – AstRoSoc Calendar
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/02/26/astrophotography-competition-time-astrosoc-calendar/
AstroSoc Competition
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Sarah Casewell on the ExoCast Podcast
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/04/22/sarah-casewell-on-the-exocast-podcast/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 22 April 2020 The Exoplanet Podcast (ExoCast) is a regular podcast about all things exoplanetary, and this month interviewed Leicester Astronomer Dr. Sarah Casewell.
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UKSA Space for All Grant
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/06/28/uksa-space-for-all-grant/
UKSA Space for All Grant
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Entries Open for the Three-Minute Thesis Competition
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/01/05/entries-open-for-the-three-minute-thesis-competition/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 5 January 2021 The University of Leicester is back hosting its own 3 Minute Thesis annual competition and this year it is open to Early Career Researchers and PostDocs.
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Doctoral Inaugural Lecture by Dr. Sam Turnpenney
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/09/27/doctoral-inaugural-lecture-by-dr-sam-turnpenney/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 27 September 2021 On Wednesday starting at 5pm, Sam Turnpenney, an alumni of Physics, is one of two recent graduates presenting their Doctoral Inaugural Lecture.
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Winchcombe Meteorite on BBC East Midlands
https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2023/01/13/winchcombe-meteorite-on-bbc-east-midlands/
Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on 13 January 2023 PhD student Niamh Topping on BBC East Midlands last night discussing findings from research taking place into the Winchcombe meteorite fall. You can watch the footage below.
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Work
https://le.ac.uk/emoha/themes/leicestershire-villages/work
Find information for interviews with reisdents of Leicestershire villages in regards to work, such as Florence Harris discussing her childhood in Desford and her parents running the village shop.
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Leicesters approach was truly trailblazing
https://le.ac.uk/news/2015/december/2018leicester2019s-approach-was-truly-trail-blazing2019
The University has won the 2015 UAR Openness Award for animal research public engagement activity.
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Pete Fisher Unit
https://le.ac.uk/gge/research/critical-creative-geographies/pete-fisher-unit
Find out more about the Pete Fisher Unit at the University of Leicester.