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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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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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Courses available ONLINE
https://le.ac.uk/languages-at-leicester/languages/online-courses
Find out more about the courses are starting from January 2023
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Using Numbers in Social Research
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/sy2008
Module code: SY2008 This module will help you develop the skills to both use and consume numbers in social research. You'll look at the ways in which you can locate, retrieve and use large scale numeric data for your research and studies.
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Human Skeletal Analysis
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ar3076
Module code: AR3076 The human skeleton gives us our only direct link with the people of the past. While pots, flints and other archaeological artefacts give us hints about what people did and how they live, the skeleton shows direct evidence of past lives and lifestyles.
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Technology, Politics and War
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/pl3141
Module code: PL3141 Advances in technology have changed the nature of warfare ever since the first conflicts began. The cavalry charge was a crucial tactic for thousands of years until the trenches, mud and machine guns of the First World War turned it into a liability.
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The Greek World After Alexander
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2024/ah3001
Module code: AH3001 For the period from Alexander the Great’s death in 323 BC to the Roman conquests of Macedonia and Greece in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC, the often fragmentary and late authors can be supplemented by numerous inscriptions and by archaeological data.
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Charging policy
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