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Astronomy News

Ten years since the first reported observation of gravitational waves
12 Feb 2026
NASA’s Hubble Captures Light Show Around Rapidly Dying Star
12 Feb 2026
Core Survey by NASA’s Roman Mission Will Unveil Universe’s Dark Side
11 Feb 2026
Jupiter gets downsized — and squashed
10 Feb 2026
Gravitational wave signal proves Einstein was right about relativity
10 Feb 2026

Vacancies

Research Assistant/Associate Exoplanetary Science (Fixed Term)
10 Feb 2026
Research Associate/Assistant (Fixed Term)
19 Dec 2025
Custodian - Housekeeping and Catering Supervisor (Fixed Term)
12 Dec 2025
Research Assistant/Associate in Exoplanetary Remote Sensing and Data Science (up to 2 posts) (Fixed Term)
09 Dec 2025
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) Cosmology (Fixed Term)
21 Nov 2025

Upcoming Talks

13

Feb

Simulations of radio galaxy flickering jets: travelling shocks, hotspot brightening and stability

16

Feb

Hierarchical Bayesian inference: constraining population distribution of dark matter halo shapes via stellar streams

17

Feb

On the hunt for warm giants

25

Feb

Inescapable Constraints from a Variable IMF on Galaxy Evolution, Chemical Enrichment and Cosmology

26

Feb

HiPERCAM: high time-resolution astrophysics