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Royal Astronomical Society Press Releases

Media Invited to UK National Astronomy Meeting
(Tuesday, May 21, 2013)
Are Super-Earths Actually Mini-Neptunes?
(Monday, February 4, 2013)
Did An 8th-Century Gamma-Ray Burst Irradiate The Earth?
(Monday, January 21, 2013)
X-rays Can Reveal Birth of Violent Supernovae
(Sunday, December 9, 2012)
New Surveys Peer Through Dust to Reveal Giant Supermassive Black Holes
(Friday, October 12, 2012)
Using Artificial Intelligence to Chart the Universe
(Monday, September 24, 2012)
For the Night Sky, Red Is the New Black
(Monday, August 13, 2012)
Plenty of Dark Matter Near the Sun
(Thursday, August 9, 2012)
Astronomers Crack Mystery of Monster Stars
(Tuesday, August 7, 2012)
UK Infrared Telescope Discovers 'Impossible' Binary Stars
(Thursday, July 5, 2012)
RAS Welcomes Decision to Build World's Largest Optical Telescope
(Wednesday, June 13, 2012)
How Black Holes Change Gear
(Monday, June 11, 2012)
RAS Response to STFC Island Site Telescopes Announcement
(Thursday, May 31, 2012)
How Nature Shapes the Birth of Stars
(Friday, May 11, 2012)
Do Milky Way's Companions Spell Trouble for Dark Matter?
(Friday, May 11, 2012)
Ultra-cool Companion Helps Reveal Giant Planets
(Thursday, May 10, 2012)
Did Exploding Stars Help Life on Earth to Thrive?
(Friday, April 27, 2012)
Public to Get Access to IR Images of Galaxies
(Tuesday, March 27, 2012)
Watching Space Weather thru CubeSat CINEMA
(Tuesday, March 27, 2012)
'Ordinary' Black Hole Discovered Very Far Away
(Tuesday, March 27, 2012)
Monolith at Gardom's Edge Is Astronomically Aligned
(Tuesday, March 27, 2012)
A Tale of Tails
(Wednesday, December 7, 2011)
How Single Stars Lost Their Companions
(Friday, September 16, 2011)
Astronomers Reveal a Cosmic 'Axis of Evil'
(Saturday, July 2, 2011)
Black Holes Spin Faster and Faster
(Thursday, May 26, 2011)
UK Astronomy Will Be Hit Hard by Budget Cuts
(Monday, May 16, 2011)
Astronomers Can Tune In To Radio Auroras to Find Exoplanets
(Monday, April 18, 2011)
The Shocking Environment of Hot Jupiters
(Monday, April 18, 2011)
Watching The Birth of a Sunspot
(Monday, April 18, 2011)
Students Help Study Mysterious X-ray Source
(Monday, April 18, 2011)
Large Galaxies Stopped Growing 7 Billion Years Ago
(Monday, April 18, 2011)
Success or Failure for Solar Eruptions
(Monday, April 18, 2011)
Did a Supernova Mark the Birth of Charles II?
(Monday, April 18, 2011)
Newly Discovered Asteroid Is Earth's Companion
(Wednesday, April 6, 2011)
Superfluid & Superconductor Found in a Star's Core
(Wednesday, February 23, 2011)
Herschel Looks Back in Time To See Today's Stars Bursting Into Life
(Friday, December 17, 2010)
Geminid Meteors Streak Through December Sky
(Thursday, December 9, 2010)
Prospects for Finding New Earths Boosted By Brand New Planet-Finding Technique
(Friday, July 9, 2010)
Scientists Get a Look at the Birth of the Milky Way
(Tuesday, June 22, 2010)
RAS: Helium Pair Have Regular Violent Flare Ups
(Monday, May 24, 2010)
RAS National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2010)
(Thursday, April 1, 2010)
Was A Giant Comet Responsible for North American Catastrophe in 11,000 BC?
(Thursday, April 1, 2010)
Supermassive Black Holes: Hinting at the Nature of Dark Matter?
(Monday, March 22, 2010)
Super Planetary Nebulae (RAS PN 09/51)
(Friday, August 14, 2009)
Tweeting Shooting Stars
(Monday, August 10, 2009)
Pillars of Creation formed in the Shadows
(Wednesday, April 22, 2009)
Hubble Survey Reveals the Formation of the First Massive Galaxies
(Tuesday, April 21, 2009)
Chandra Shows Shocking Impact of Galaxy Jet
(Tuesday, April 21, 2009)
Astronomers Discover Youngest and Lowest Mass Dwarfs
(Tuesday, April 21, 2009)
Most Distant Detection of Water in the Universe
(Tuesday, April 21, 2009)
Mass Loss Leaves Close-In Exoplanets Exposed to the Core
(Monday, April 20, 2009)
Primitive Dust Samples Provide Pre-Solar Time Capsules
(Monday, April 20, 2009)
Two Highly Complex Organic Modules Detected in Space
(Monday, April 20, 2009)
Stars Cheek By Jowl in the Early Universe
(Thursday, February 12, 2009)
World's Leading Astronomers and Geophysicists Honored by Royal Astronomical Society
(Monday, January 12, 2009)
Astronomers Find Embryonic Planet
(Wednesday, April 2, 2008)
Old Galaxies Stick Together in the Young Universe
(Wednesday, April 2, 2008)
RAS: Deep Dismay at Deep Cuts to UK Astronomy
(Friday, December 14, 2007)
Did William Herschel Discover The Rings of Uranus in the 18th Century?
(Tuesday, April 24, 2007)
Robert Massey Takes Over as Royal Astronomical Society Press Officer
(Thursday, February 22, 2007)
Astronomers Construct Largest-Ever 3D Map of Galaxies and Their Motions Over the Entire Sky
(Tuesday, October 3, 2006)
NASA Swift Observes an Unusual Bang in the Far Universe
(Sunday, April 16, 2006)
Small satellites offer astronomers "PC" access to the Universe
(Wednesday, April 12, 2006)
Mercury's Formation Impact Splattered Earth with Material
(Thursday, April 6, 2006)
Slew Survey Reveals Secrets of X-ray Sky
(Thursday, April 6, 2006)
Upgraded Merlin Spies Cloud of Alcohol Spanning 288 Billion Miles
(Thursday, April 6, 2006)
First Media Announcement: Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting 2006
(Tuesday, February 7, 2006)
UK Astronomy: Great Prospects But Important Problems to Be Addressed
(Thursday, January 26, 2006)
RAS Announces Geophysics Medal Winners for 2006
(Tuesday, December 13, 2005)
RAS Announces Astronomy Award Winners for 2006
(Friday, December 9, 2005)
Royal Astronomical Society Commission Supports The Scientific Case for Human Space Flight
(Tuesday, October 18, 2005)
RAS Statement on the Proposed Abolition of Leap Seconds
(Friday, September 23, 2005)
Most Distant Cosmic Explosion Detected Smashes Previous Record
(Tuesday, September 13, 2005)
Skylark Gets Set for Final Launch
(Tuesday, April 26, 2005)
Galaxy Clusters, Near and Far, Have A Lot in Common
(Friday, April 8, 2005)
Astronomers Discover Mysterious New Star Clusters
(Friday, April 8, 2005)
Ground-based Telescopes Have An Extremely Large Future
(Friday, April 8, 2005)
X-Ray Vision of Violence in Interacting Galaxies
(Friday, April 8, 2005)
Discovery of Giant X-Ray Loop Hints at Cosmic Particle Accelerator
(Friday, April 8, 2005)
Concentrated Dark Matter at the Cores of Fossil Galaxies
(Wednesday, April 6, 2005)
UK Provides e-Ffective Access to Upcoming Solar Dynamics
(Wednesday, April 6, 2005)
Pulsar Pair Gives Scientists Magneto-Pause for Thought
(Wednesday, January 26, 2005)
How special is the solar system?
(Tuesday, August 3, 2004)
The Future of UK Planetary Science: RAS Statement on Aurora
(Friday, July 30, 2004)
Success for Early Double Star Launch
(Monday, July 26, 2004)
East Meets West to Solve Space Storm Mystery
(Monday, July 19, 2004)
Tau Ceti: The Going Gets Tough for Life in Other Solar Systems
(Tuesday, July 6, 2004)
Transit of Venus Across the Sun on 8 June 2004
(Wednesday, May 12, 2004)
A UK-Led Micro-Mission to the Moons of Mars?
(Sunday, April 4, 2004)
A UK-Led Micro-Mission to the Moons of Mars?
(Sunday, April 4, 2004)
First Shipping Forecast for the Oceans of Titan
(Thursday, April 1, 2004)
From Europa to Sedna: Life Beneath the Ice in the Outer Solar System?
(Thursday, April 1, 2004)
Hunt for Extrasolar Earth-Like Planets Intensifies
(Thursday, April 1, 2004)
Planetary systems with habitable Earths?
(Thursday, April 1, 2004)
Astronomers Look Forward to SWIFT Studies of Cataclysmic Explosions
(Thursday, April 1, 2004)
New Quasar Studies Keep Fundamental Physical Constant Constant
(Thursday, April 1, 2004)
Astronomers Find Nearest Galaxy to the Milky Way
(Tuesday, November 4, 2003)
UK Astronomers look forward to looking back
(Sunday, August 24, 2003)
Astronomers hope for good weather - on Mars
(Sunday, August 24, 2003)
Dim Future for the Universe as Stellar Lights Go Out
(Wednesday, August 13, 2003)
Making sense of Centaurs and their kin
(Thursday, August 7, 2003)
Mars in Opposition: One for the Record Books
(Monday, August 4, 2003)
Stellar Census Detects More Red and Brown Dwarfs
(Sunday, April 20, 2003)
Reaching for the Asteroids
(Thursday, April 10, 2003)
Archeoastronomy links Stone-Age tomb builders with the Sun
(Wednesday, April 9, 2003)
Ulster's Bronz-Age monuments linked builders with cosmos
(Wednesday, April 9, 2003)
Cosmic dust in farthest quasar clue to early star formation
(Wednesday, April 9, 2003)
New View of X-ray Jet Blasting Through Nearest Radio Galaxy
(Tuesday, April 8, 2003)
Evaluating The Threat From Earth's Radiation Belts
(Tuesday, April 8, 2003)
Sun's Role in Climate Change Continues to Spark Controversy
(Tuesday, April 8, 2003)
X-Rays Chart The Wakes of Supersonic Galaxies
(Tuesday, April 8, 2003)
Magnetism of Colliding Neutron Stars Can Power Gamma-Ray Bursts
(Tuesday, April 8, 2003)
Astronomers Find "Naked" Galaxies, Devoid of Dark Matter
(Tuesday, April 8, 2003)
Stellar Census Detects More Red and Brown Dwarfs
(Tuesday, April 8, 2003)
Cosmic Dust in Farthest Quasar Clue to Early Star Formation
(Tuesday, April 8, 2003)
The Most Powerful Quasar in the Local Universe Blows its Top
(Tuesday, April 8, 2003)
Spinning Black Hole Clue in Gamma-ray Burst Signatures
(Tuesday, April 8, 2003)
Star Transforms into Coolest Known Supergiant
(Tuesday, April 8, 2003)
Black Holes Really Are Holes, Say Astronomers
(Monday, March 31, 2003)
Star Transforms into Coolest Known Supergiant
(Thursday, March 27, 2003)
Pushing back the frontiers of the Universe to the era of the first stars
(Monday, March 10, 2003)
National Astronomy Meeting
(Thursday, February 6, 2003)
Prestigious European Award for Gamma-Ray Burst Research Team
(Wednesday, December 11, 2002)
Extremely Large Telescopes A Step Closer
(Wednesday, December 4, 2002)
A new picture of the early universe
(Friday, May 24, 2002)
Solar Sailing Ships Set To Soar
(Thursday, May 2, 2002)
Naked Eye Comet Shines on UK Natinal Astronomy Meeting
(Friday, April 12, 2002)
Young Stars in Chaos
(Friday, April 12, 2002)
X-Rays Examine Colliding Galaxies
(Thursday, April 11, 2002)
Interstellar Searchlights Catch Star Factories in their Beams
(Wednesday, April 10, 2002)
Astronomers Weigh Neutrinos With the Universe
(Wednesday, April 10, 2002)
Mapping the Cosmic Web of Dark Matter
(Wednesday, April 10, 2002)
Preparing for the Venus Express
(Wednesday, April 10, 2002)
Rare Galaxies Shed Light on a Dark Universe
(Wednesday, April 10, 2002)
UK Astronomers Survey Galactic Graveyard
(Wednesday, April 10, 2002)
Where Are The Other "Earths" Beyond the Solar System?
(Wednesday, April 10, 2002)
Bringing Space Down to Earth to Explain How Stars Form
(Tuesday, April 9, 2002)
Music of the Black Holes: They All Play the Same Tune
(Tuesday, April 9, 2002)
Quasars Help Trace Ancestors of Giant Elliptical Galaxies
(Tuesday, April 9, 2002)
2nd Announcement: UK National Astronomy Meeting 2002
(Tuesday, March 26, 2002)
Mystery of R Coronae Borealis and Other Helium Stars Solved
(Monday, March 25, 2002)
New Evidence That Expansion of Universe is Accelerating
(Tuesday, March 19, 2002)
Scientists Detect First Afterglow of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts
(Monday, February 18, 2002)
UK National Astronomy Meeting
(Monday, February 18, 2002)
New Satellite To Study Explosive Solar Flares
(Thursday, January 31, 2002)
Royal Astronomical Society Debates Asteroid Threat
(Monday, December 10, 2001)
First global atlas of artificial night sky brightness shows how humans are enveloping world in 'luminous fog
(Monday, August 13, 2001)
Astronomers find key to x-ray mystery of black holes
(Tuesday, May 8, 2001)
Turning Stars Into Gold
(Thursday, April 5, 2001)
Imaging a giant at close range
(Wednesday, April 4, 2001)
The beginning and end of life on Earth
(Wednesday, April 4, 2001)
Studying Andromeda In The Dark
(Wednesday, April 4, 2001)
Ulysses observes the Sun at solar max
(Wednesday, April 4, 2001)
Primitive visitor from space (Tagish Lake meteorite) arrives in UK
(Wednesday, April 4, 2001)
Free-floating planets confirmed
(Wednesday, April 4, 2001)
European spacecraft observes far-flung flares
(Wednesday, April 4, 2001)
Distant Galaxies Are In The Red
(Tuesday, April 3, 2001)
The scientific case for human spaceflight
(Friday, March 30, 2001)
Xeus - A New Concept in the Exploration of the Universe
(Thursday, March 29, 2001)
Old brown-dwarf-like stars discovered
(Thursday, February 8, 2001)
Completely dark galaxies
(Thursday, January 4, 2001)
Unveiling the birth of stars and galaxies
(Wednesday, August 16, 2000)
Solar radiation rises to 11-year peak
(Thursday, August 3, 2000)
Scientists Look Forward to Cluster II Quartet
(Tuesday, July 11, 2000)
RAS Discussion Meeting: The European Southern Observatory (ESO) and the Development of the Future UK Astronomy Programme
(Monday, June 19, 2000)
London Meeting to Discuss the Search for Life in the Outer Solar System
(Friday, May 19, 2000)
University of Manchester Hosts 'Water on Mars' Symposium
(Wednesday, April 12, 2000)
Astronomers Discover Free-Floating Planets in the Orion Nebula
(Wednesday, March 22, 2000)
Space Mission To Improve Earth's Magnetic Image
(Wednesday, March 22, 2000)
Diet of Gas and Dust Makes Black Holes Put on Weight
(Monday, March 20, 2000)
Diet of Gas and Dust Makes Black Holes Put on Weight
(Monday, March 20, 2000)
GEOPHYSICIST HONOURED FOR RESEARCH ON EARTH'S CRUST
(Tuesday, December 7, 1999)
Prediction of Leonids was Spot-on
(Thursday, November 18, 1999)