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Institute of Astronomy researcher awarded Schmidt Sciences fellowship to ensure AI benefits society : www.ast.cam.ac.uk/news/institu...
Institute of Astronomy researcher awarded Schmidt Sciences fellowship to ensure AI benefits society | Institute of Astronomy
Institute of Astronomy researcher Dr Miles Cranmer is one of 28 researchers worldwide to receive an AI2050 fellowship from Schmidt Sciences, awarded to researchers studying how to fulfil AI’s potentia...
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November 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Our latest MandelZoom paper, led by Eun-jin Shin (Postdoc
@cambridgeastro.bsky.social) is out on arXiv today!

This work explores the impact of different stellar feedback mechanisms on black hole growth in dwarf galaxies!

#astro #astrocoding
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The MandelZoom project II: the impact of stellar feedback on black hole accretion through an $α$-disc in dwarf galaxies with a resolved interstellar medium. Eun-jin Shin et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.23548
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October 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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A powerful new telescope has captured its first glimpse of the cosmos, and could transform our understanding of how stars, galaxies and black holes evolve. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
New telescope opens a window to the southern sky
A powerful new telescope has captured its first glimpse of the cosmos, and could transform our understanding of how stars, galaxies and black holes evolve.
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October 22, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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KICC success in ESA’s 2025 Call for Missions
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KICC success in ESA’s 2025 Call for Missions | Kavli Institute for Cosmology, Cambridge
The GUEST mission concept (Gravitational Universe Exploration with Satellite Tracking), co-proposed by Alex Jenkins, Gavin Boyle Fellow in Cosmology at KICC and EPSRC Stephen Hawking Fellow, has been ...
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October 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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Professor David Tong from @trincollcam.bsky.social @cambridgemaths.bsky.social will give our first lecture on 'Our Chiral Universe'.

Larmor Lecture - 13 October, 18:00–19:00
Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Cambridge.

Booking: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event...
October 8, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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Stars are interesting in many ways and seeing them is more complex than one may imagine. They also change on timescales from seconds to years. Read about Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, Prof Gerry Gilmore's project @cambridgeastro.bsky.social media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/ggil...

#WorldSpaceWeek 🚀
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Having led strategic coordination in optical astronomy for twenty-five years, Professor Gerry Gilmore is now building a sustainable alliance for the European-wide network of observatories initially built to support the Gaia mission. media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/ggil... @cambridgeastro.bsky.social
Figure showing Phylogenetic tree constructed from 78 solar twins using 55 evolutionarily significant traits.
October 7, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Our Travel Grants are now open for application.

Deadline for applications is 01 Nov 2025
Deadline for references is 08 Nov 2025

For more information and to apply:
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October 2, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Tickets are now available for The PdOC Research Showcase 2025 on 10th November 2025 at West Hub, Cambridge. @westcamhub @CamPostdocs

Book tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/thewe...

Sponsored by the Cambridge Philosophical Society
October 1, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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Having led strategic coordination in optical astronomy for twenty-five years, Professor Gerry Gilmore is now building a sustainable alliance for the European-wide network of observatories initially built to support the Gaia mission. media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/ggil... @cambridgeastro.bsky.social
Figure showing Phylogenetic tree constructed from 78 solar twins using 55 evolutionarily significant traits.
September 4, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Having led strategic coordination in optical astronomy for twenty-five years, Gerry Gilmore is now building a sustainable alliance for the European-wide network of observatories initially built to support the Gaia mission media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/ggil...
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September 4, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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The Final Frontier: Black Holes in the Infant Universe

9 September - Ray Dolby Center in West Cambridge.

Join Lord Rees, Prof. Natarajan, Prof. Sijacki and Prof. Maiolino for this exciting public talk.

Details: sites.google.com/cam.ac.uk/mb...

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September 2, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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Dr Valeriya Korol will join the Institute of Astronomy on a prestigious Ernest Rutherford Fellowship www.ast.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-vale...
Dr Valeriya Korol awarded prestigious Ernest Rutherford Fellowship | Institute of Astronomy
Dr Valeriya Korol will join the Institute of Astronomy on a prestigious Ernest Rutherford Fellowship, awarded by UKRI’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to explore how the Milky Way wa...
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August 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Dr Valeriya Korol will join the Institute of Astronomy on a prestigious Ernest Rutherford Fellowship www.ast.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-vale...
Dr Valeriya Korol awarded prestigious Ernest Rutherford Fellowship | Institute of Astronomy
Dr Valeriya Korol will join the Institute of Astronomy on a prestigious Ernest Rutherford Fellowship, awarded by UKRI’s Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) to explore how the Milky Way wa...
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August 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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Astronomers find new evidence for planet around our closest solar twin www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
Astronomers find new evidence for planet around our closest solar twin
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence of a giant planet orbiting a star in the stellar system closest to our
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August 8, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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A gas giant the size of Saturn could be hiding in orbit around Alpha Centauri A - the third-brightest star in the sky and the closest 'twin' to our own Sun - according to new data from @esa.int's James Webb telescope and @cambridgeastro.bsky.social
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Astronomers find new evidence for planet around our closest solar twin
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence of a giant planet orbiting a star in the stellar system closest to our
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August 7, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Astronomers find new evidence for planet around our closest solar twin www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
Astronomers find new evidence for planet around our closest solar twin
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have found strong evidence of a giant planet orbiting a star in the stellar system closest to our
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August 8, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet – between three and ten times the size of Jupiter – hiding in the swirling disc of gas and dust surrounding a young star. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
Astronomers find a giant hiding in the ‘fog’ around a young star
Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet – between three and ten times the size of Jupiter – hiding in the swirling disc of gas and dust surrounding a young
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July 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet – between three and ten times the size of Jupiter – hiding in the swirling disc of gas and dust surrounding a young star. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
Astronomers find a giant hiding in the ‘fog’ around a young star
Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet – between three and ten times the size of Jupiter – hiding in the swirling disc of gas and dust surrounding a young
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July 15, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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We are saddened to report the passing of Cyril Hazard (18 March 1928 – 14 June 2025). Cyril was a pioneering radio astronomer whose work on quasars helped transform our understanding of the Universe. www.ast.cam.ac.uk/news/cyril-h...
Cyril Hazard (18 March 1928 – 14 June 2025) | Institute of Astronomy
We are saddened to report the passing of Cyril Hazard (18 March 1928 – 14 June 2025). Cyril was a pioneering radio astronomer whose work on quasars helped transform our understanding of the Universe.
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July 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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We are saddened to report the passing of Cyril Hazard (18 March 1928 – 14 June 2025). Cyril was a pioneering radio astronomer whose work on quasars helped transform our understanding of the Universe. www.ast.cam.ac.uk/news/cyril-h...
Cyril Hazard (18 March 1928 – 14 June 2025) | Institute of Astronomy
We are saddened to report the passing of Cyril Hazard (18 March 1928 – 14 June 2025). Cyril was a pioneering radio astronomer whose work on quasars helped transform our understanding of the Universe.
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July 12, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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At NAM 2025 in Durham @nam25-durham.bsky.social Anke Ardern-Arentsen is speaking on Carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars as probes for early chemical enrichment. Anke has published in #MNRAS: academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
Predicting metallicities and carbon abundances from Gaia XP spectra for (carbon-enhanced) metal-poor stars
ABSTRACT. Carbon-rich (C-rich) stars can be found at all metallicities and evolutionary stages. They are often the result of mass transfer from a companion
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July 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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A Victorian woman astronomer at Cambridge has finally been honoured after more than a century – with her own asteroid 🌠

New research co-authored by Mark Hurn @cambridgeastro.bsky.social reveals that Annie Walker was the first woman at Cambridge paid to observe the heavens 👇
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A historical photo of individuals working at the Melbourne Observatory's Measuring Bureau in 1901. Credit: The Australasian, 1901, courtesy of Dr Toner Stevenson.
July 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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A story about Annie Walker, a 19th cent. astronomer who worked at the Cambridge Observatory, a forerunner to the IoA ... www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Unsung observatory worker was UK’s first professional female astronomer, experts say
Cambridge’s Institute of Astronomy is trying to find a photo of Annie Walker, who died in 1940, to give her star billing
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June 30, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Rubin Observatory reveals first images
The Vera C Rubin Observatory, a new scientific facility that will bring the night sky to life like never before using the largest camera ever built, has
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June 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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“This exploration is bound to throw up surprises that we never imagined,” said Professor Hiranya Peiris from
@cambridgeastro.bsky.social, one of the UK astronomers who will be using the Rubin Observatory to explore the universe.

Find out about its mission: www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...
Rubin Observatory reveals first images
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory, a new scientific facility that will bring the night sky to life like never before using the largest camera ever built, has
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June 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM