Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell will give the second of our Chancellor’s Distinguished Lecture Series on Tuesday 14th May, on the University of Leicester campus. le.ac.uk/news/2024/apri…

Did you hear about the black hole discovered less than 2000 light-years from Earth, revealed last week? Astronomers Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester/Space Park Leicester were part of the ESA Gaia team that uncovered it! 🔭

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Very happy to welcome Rong Tian from Wuhan University to Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester! Rong will work with Dikshita Meggi, the Martian group and myself for the next couple of years and we are excited to have her with us! 💫✨🛰️

Evidence from the fragments of an asteroid narrows down the time that the Solar System's giant planets took up their current positions to between 60-100 million years after its formation.

#CitizensOfChange | Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester | Space Park Leicester

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The ESA Gaia discovery of a black hole 33 times more massive than the sun took everyone by surprise, including University of Leicester scientists who work on the data analysis: le.ac.uk/news/2024/apri…

The Solar system's giant planets shifted their orbits 60-100 million years after its birth. New research lead by our lecturer Chrysa Avdellidou. le.ac.uk/news/2024/apri…

We have some additional opportunities for University of Leicester 2nd-4th year students to do a paid summer research project. Details here: staffblogs.le.ac.uk/physicsastrono…

We have joined instagram! Follow uniofleicesterphysics (instagram.com/uniofleicester…) to see what our students are up to and the science that we do!

News | Space Park Leicester has been selected to host one of three new regional offices for the UK Space Agency, as part of its national expansion to support the space sector across the UK

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The Future Leaders #Fellowships are an incredible opportunity for early-career researchers: if you're interested in joining the team Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester, do please get in touch - there's an internal deadline of April 8th

Josh Barker and I representing Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester at Literary Leicester 10 objects that changed our lives run by LIAS

Our new Professor Suzie Imber will give her inaugural lecture on space science and much, much more, on Wednesday this week!

Dr Hannah Sergeant, working at Space Park Leicester on lunar exploration and space resources tells her story ahead of International Women's Day le.ac.uk/news/2024/marc…

New paper(s), led by Naman Bajaj, Andrew Sellek, and Ilaria Pascucci. We used ESA Webb Telescope / NASA Webb Telescope to image a wind from a protoplanetary disc. 🤩 It’s the first time this has been done, and tells us a huge amount about how planet-forming discs evolve.
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Handing over the reins of the Space Projects and Instrumentation team.
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A team Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester has been set up to ‘chase’ some of the Universe’s most powerful explosions.

They will use a suite of space and ground-based telescopes to probe the extreme physical forces that form them thanks to £330k from The Leverhulme Trust.

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🌃Our Drs Paul Abel and Charly Feldman guide us through March's night sky and talk about X-ray eyes on the universe (respectively) for Sky at Night magazine here: 🔭skyatnightmagazine.com/bonus-content/…