‘Polluted’ stellar graveyard gives glimpse of our Solar System beyond Sun’s implosion

press release

Press release 9-May-2013

By chemically sampling the atmospheres of two dead stars in the Hyades star cluster 150 light years away, researchers at Cambridge and NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered the building blocks for Earth-sized planets formed around the stars while they lived.     Read more...

Professor Gerard F Gilmore FRS

2nd May 2013

The Director of the Institute of Astronomy is delighted to announce the election of Professor Gerard F Gilmore to the Fellowship of the Royal Society on 2nd May 2013.     Read more...

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