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  • Britain’s first space explorer is honoured by University of Leicester

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2024/january/honorand-helen-sharman

    Britain’s first astronaut has paid tribute to the University of Leicester’s world class space research.

  • The U.S. Media Index database

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2021/05/24/the-u-s-media-index-database/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on May 24, 2021 F ind out who owns what . Compiled by the Future of Media Project the index details the 176 parent companies of daily news outlets.

  • Astronomers see “warm” glow of Uranus’s rings

    https://le.ac.uk/news/2019/june/21-uranus-rings-alma-vlt

    The rings of Uranus are invisible to all but the largest telescopes — they weren’t even discovered until 1977 — and they stand out as surprisingly bright in new heat images of the planet taken by two large telescopes in the high deserts of Chile.

  • Observing Jupiter’s aurora from the top of a Volcano

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/07/01/observing-jupiters-aurora-from-the-top-of-a-volcano/

    Posted by Rosie Johnson in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on July 1, 2016 As part of the ground based support for the Juno mission, I visited the Mauna Kea Observatories, Hawaii, in February through to the beginning of March this year.

  • Joe Orton’s ‘Entertaining Mr Sloane’

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/specialcollections/2014/05/06/joe-ortons-entertaining-mr-sloane/

    Posted by Margaret Maclean in Library Special Collections on May 6, 2014 Joe Orton’s Entertaining Mr Sloane was first performed at the New Arts Theatre Club 50 years ago today.

  • Physics Special Topics: Santa’s Christmas magic is Real

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2021/12/24/leicester-physics-students-prove-santas-christmas-magic-is-real%EF%BF%BC/

    Physics Special Topics: Santa’s Christmas magic is Real

  • International Women’s Day

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2018/03/08/international-womens-day/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on March 8, 2018 International Women’s Day is celebrated on the 8 th March to celebrate the social, economic, cultural and political achievement of women. This year the theme is Press for Progress.

  • Introducing Leicester’s BepiColombo MIXS Instrument

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastronomy/2020/10/19/introducing-leicesters-bepicolombo-mixs-instrument/

    Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Physics and Astronomy Blog on October 19, 2020 This week (October 15th 2020) the BepiColombo spacecraft made its close approach to Venus, using the flybys (and electric propulsion) to brake against the Sun’s enormous gravity to reach...

  • Hubble captures vivid auroras in Jupiter’s atmosphere

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/06/30/hubble-captures-vivid-auroras-in-jupiters-atmosphere/

    Posted by Physics & Astronomy in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on June 30, 2016 Astronomers are using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to study auroras — stunning light shows in a planet’s atmosphere — on the poles of the largest planet in the Solar System,...

  • New president’s online collections

    https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/socscilibrarians/2019/08/02/new-presidents-online-collections/

    Posted by Andrew Dunn in Social Sciences and Humanities Librarians’ Blog on August 2, 2019 Recently added to the Library of Congress website: the papers of President James Garfield .

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