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Leicester space scientists celebrate the launch of the James Webb Space Telescope

https://le.ac.uk/news/2021/december/jwst-launch

Amongst other things, it will be able to see the first galaxies that formed after the Big Bang, along with studying planet formation around distant stars.

Sand clouds, water vapour and sulphur dioxide detected on nearby exoplanet using world-leading space telescope

https://le.ac.uk/news/2023/november/jwst-sand-clouds

New study that has discovered ‘sand clouds’ on a planet orbiting a nearby star using James Webb Space Telescope involves University of Leicester space scientist, using the MIRI instrument that University engineers and scientists helped design and develop.

University of Leicester researchers take part in parliamentary roundtable on NHS staff retention

https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/december/parliamentary-roundtable-nhs-staff-retention

Professor Manish Pareek from the University of Leicester joins panel to share evidence to inform local and national policy

Hot hot hot, above the Great Red Spot

https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/leicester-to-jupiter/2016/07/28/hot-hot-hot-above-the-great-red-spot/

Posted by Henrik Melin in Leicester to Jupiter: The Juno Mission on July 28, 2016 One of the largest remaining questions in understanding the upper atmosphere of Jupiter, the outmost layer of the atmosphere, is: ‘Why is this region so very hot?’.

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https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/02/11/empires-exile-the-story-of-ly-lieu/neuf-neuf/

The Chinese Shops of Cayenne

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https://staffblogs.le.ac.uk/carchipelago/2016/08/29/in-my-prison-notebook/buriedaliveorte00dostgoog/