May 2016
Rare Mercury transit complete
... to feel you are really part of the solar system in motion.” said Dr Marek Kukula public astronomer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. "It is always exciting to see rare astronomical phenomena such as this transit of Mercury," added RAS President...
January 2021
How the UK space sector is levelling up with support from its science facilities
... in the Liverpool City Region, the Boulby Underground Laboratory in Cleveland, the Chilbolton Observatory in Hampshire and the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh. Multi-layer Insulation Facility Instead of restricting these facilities to academics, STFC...
March 2021
Campuses, clusters and a leading force in UK space
... are ideally placed as a key enabler within the Scottish space sector, helping SMEs to develop space capability. Royal Observatory Edinburgh. At the Sci-Tech Daresbury campus in Cheshire businesses are capitalising on STFC’s purpose-built additive...
17 July 2020
Solar Orbiter spots country-sized ‘campfires’ on the Sun
... the little nephews of solar flares, at least a million, perhaps a billion times smaller," says David Berghmans of the Royal Observatory of Belgium (ROB). Small however is a relative a term when it comes to describing phenomena on the Sun, as the...
16 September 2020
The Sun enters a new cycle and will reach a peak in 2025
... processing at the World Data Center for the Sunsport Index and Long-term Solar Observations at the Royal Observatory of Belgium in Brussels. Scientists don't just rely on sunspot activity though. Other indicators also help determine when...
06 February 2020
Scottish space firm flies to Silicon Valley with Heathrow support
...for small satellite customers looking to reach orbit in the near future. The company, based at Edinburgh’s Royal Observatory building, is a participant in the ESA BIC UK, a prestigious business incubation programme funded by the European Space Agency...
