08 February 2017
Bridge between the Magellanic Clouds discovered
...easy visibility in the night sky the Magellanic Clouds were discovered in antiquity, astronomers were unable to study them in detail until recently. The study is ... reported in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS).
12 October 2020
Rarely detected star shredding event caught in unprecedented detail
... monster black hole, which is over a million times more massive,” says says Matt Nicholl, a lecturer and Royal Astronomical Society research fellow at the University of Birmingham, UK, and the lead author of the new study. The detailed nature...
25 July 2016
Supernova "Matryoshka" Discovered in Local Group
... discovered a triple-bubble. The results of their research were published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. This is the first time that researchers have found three concentric expanding supernova shells. Superbubbles are...
13 December 2021
Did another star gatecrash our early Solar System?
.... These type of stars are classed as FU Orionis objects or FUors, and astronomers think it is due to episodic mass accretion or thermal instabilities in a gaseous ...,” will be published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS).
December 2021
The rise of the UK space economy
... They are also creating problems for sensitive astronomical telescopes, interfering with some observations and preventing ...papers. He has been a President of the Royal Astronomical Society and currently chairs the Space Telescope Institute Council and...
April 2024
Rotation in the Universe
... debris. Stuart has an MSc in Astrophysics, a PhD in satellite constellation design, and has been a fellow of both the Royal Astronomical Society and the British Interplanetary Society for more than 25 years.
