May the fourth be with you... Happy #StarWarsDay ! 👾

Here's a nostalgic revisit to when a Leicester-led team of experts found a planet similar to Tatooine in Star Wars.

👉 le.ac.uk/news/2020/sept…

#MayThe4thBeWithYou | #MayTheFourth | Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester

🌌 ☁ An international team of researchers, including astronomers from the University of Leicester, have successfully used NASA Webb Telescope's Space Telescope to map the weather on the hot gas-giant exoplanet WASP-43 b.
Find out more ⤵️
#JWST I WebbTelescopeUK
space-park.co.uk/2024/05/weathe…

Is it cloudy where you are? Mapping the weather on a planet 280 light-years away☁️

An international team of researchers, including astronomers from the University of Leicester, used JWST to measure wind speeds of 5000 mph on Wasp-43b!

le.ac.uk/news/2024/apri…

Highlighting our search for a new colleague. jobs.ac.uk/job/DHG277/lec…

Evening fun FameLab East Midlands!

Story on our new ESA Webb Telescope / NASA Webb Telescope observations imaging a wind from a planet-forming disc, led by Naman Bajaj, Andrew Sellek, and Ilaria Pascucci. The paper is out today; the Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester press release should come out tomorrow morning (UK time).
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.384…

We have some wonderful opportunities for year 10, 11 & 12 students to learn about space through our work experience program! le.ac.uk/news/2024/janu…

Year 10, 11 and 12 students living in #Leicestershire can apply for a #workexperience placement featuring Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester, Space Park Leicester and the National Space Centre.

Find out more 👇🏽
space-park.co.uk/2024/01/work-e…

Congratulations Faith Hawthorn and Sam Gill who've done this work as part of the NGTS monotransits programme.! We'll be monitoring many of these 85 candidates to try and determine their true orbital periods and help confirm them as planets.

Huge congratulations Jayne Birkby !!

🎉The Blavatnik Awards and @nyasciences are excited to announce the Honourees of the 2024 Blavatnik Awards in the UK! Please join us in congratulating these nine incredible scientists sparking innovations that will transform our future world. Learn more: blavatnikawards.org/news/items/pre…

Getting ready for positional Astronomy in todays Astro lecture

Still time to apply to become one of the 28 #citizenscience ECS ambassadors in #Austria #Estonia #Germany #Slovakia & #Sweden ! Support citizen science in Europe, and apply before 16 January 🗓️
eu-citizen.science/call_ambassado…

🌟A 'glowing' brown dwarf star has been spotted by NASA Webb Telescope 🛰️

Dr Sarah Casewell from Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester has been speaking to BBC Radio 4 Today about what we know about this mysterious object.

Find out more, from 53m👇
bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

The Einstein probe has launched!

University of Leicester researchers have been testing and calibrating its optics in the past few years, and it will now hunt the X-ray sky for extreme explosions from neutron stars and black holes

space-park.co.uk/2024/01/explos…

Closing soon: Chinese Scholarship Council and University of Leicester joint PhD. Deadline 7th January. le.ac.uk/study/research…

Check out this MASSIVE paper led by Davy Kirkpatrick and heavily contributed to by the volunteers in the backyardworlds citizen science project. The 20pc sample reveals a lot...ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023arXiv2…

Dr Sarah E Seaton 🏳️‍🌈 UoL Population Health Sciences Leicester Geography Geology at Leicester University of Leicester CMS Leicester Law School Our final award winner before we take a break , the award for PGR Supervisor of the Year goes to… Dr Sarah Casewell (@astronomerslc25) from the School of Physics and Astronomy 🏆

#CitizensAwards23 Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester

PAPER DAY! (1/4) We discovered that low-mass planets undergo chaotic migration in discs with strong turbulence (Reynolds viscosity stress number around or greater than 1.e-2). All details, please refer to arxiv.org/abs/2311.15747 .