Twinkle, twinkle, little star: I’m going to know what you are

The GAIA Project

Switch on for new billion star data centre for the GAIA satellite Read more...

Royal Astronomical Society honours leading astronomers

Awards for Institute members

Fastest Wind from Stellar-Mass Black Hole

10 times faster than before

Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have clocked the fastest wind blowing off a disk around a stellar-mass black hole yet discovered. Read more...

Research

Research at the Institute of Astronomy

The Institute of Astronomy researches across the entire breadth of astronomy. Find out more about our current fields of research and project involvement. Read more...

Undergraduate Study Opportunities

For Cambridge students

The Institute of Astronomy offers two exciting courses in Astrophysics, providing the University's only dedicated astronomy course at the Part II level and a Part III course offering the opportunity to conduct a substantial research project. Read more...