Institute of Astronomy

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Professor Cathie Clarke elected Fellow of the Royal Society

10 May 2023

10 May 2023     Read more...

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Tracing 13 billion years of history by the light of ancient quasars

Press release 8 March 2023

New evidence for rapid heating in the early universe     Read more...

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Hiranya Peiris appointed Professor of Astrophysics (1909)

27 February 2023

World-leading cosmologist Professor Hiranya Peiris has been appointed Professor of Astrophysics (1909) at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge.      Read more...

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Eddington Lecture 23

Eddington Lecture 23

In this talk, we discuss the grand challenge questions and discuss progress and future aspects with recent result from the Parker Solar Probe, and Solar Orbiter, as well as the expected results from the upcoming Polarimeter to Unify the Corona ad Heliosphere mission.     Read more...

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More clues to understand our early Universe

Press release January 2023

An array of 350 radio telescopes in the Karoo desert of South Africa is getting closer to detecting “the Epoch of Re-ionization” — the era just after the first stars ignited and galaxies began to bloom.      Read more...

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UK-led robotic sky scanner reveals its first galactic fingerprint

Press release 12 Dec 2022

A major telescope upgrade has peered through to the distant Universe to reveal the spectra of a pair of galaxies 280 million light years away from Earth.      Read more...

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Upcoming Talks at the IoA

Thursday 01 June 2023
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Various speakers
Astrostatistics and Astro-Machine Learning (Kavli Science Focus Meeting)
Time: 09:00-17:00  [details]
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Mark Thompson - AMD
Machine Learning Applied to Video Compression
Time: 13:00-15:30  [details]
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Dr. Michelle Collins (University of Surrey)
TBC
Time: 16:00-17:00  [details]
Friday 02 June 2023
Institute of Astronomy Seminars logo
Various speakers
Astrostatistics and Astro-Machine Learning (Kavli Science Focus Meeting)
Time: 09:00-17:00  [details]
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