04 July 2016
ROOM attends the UK National Astronomy Meeting
... mission or the history of a subject into one awe-inspiring hour. The sponsors of the conference, the Royal Astronomical Society, also organised a community forum session whereby organisations such as the UK Space Agency (UKSA) and the Science...
May 2016
Rare Mercury transit complete
... system, seen as a tiny black dot, inch its way over the surface of the Sun. According to the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) in the UK, most of Western Europe, the western parts of North and West Africa, eastern North America...
May 2017
Could Brexit blow a hole in UK’s space ambitions?
...A graduate in chemistry and pharmacology, Dr Leggett also holds a PhD in Chemistry and is Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and the British Interplanetary Society. Opinions presented in the article are the author’s own and do not reflect those...
27 January 2016
Interaction between protoplanetary disks and planets confirmed by astronomers using ALMA
... the size of Neptune's orbit (a radius of approximately 110 astronomical units (AU),” explains Canovas. Only the ring is shown on ...due to be submitted to Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS), states that the teams findings are in...
08 February 2017
Bridge between the Magellanic Clouds discovered
...easy visibility in the night sky the Magellanic Clouds were discovered in antiquity, astronomers were unable to study them in detail until recently. The study is ... reported in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS).
25 July 2016
Supernova "Matryoshka" Discovered in Local Group
... discovered a triple-bubble. The results of their research were published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. This is the first time that researchers have found three concentric expanding supernova shells. Superbubbles are...
