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Using the most powerful telescopes on Earth and in space, a team of astronomers has found for the first time, blasts of hot, warm and cold winds from a neutron star while it consumes matter from a nearby star.

An international team of researchers, led by Dr Ian Heywood from the Department of Physics, has produced a new radio image of the centre of our Galaxy using the South African MeerKAT telescope, the most powerful of its kind in the world.

Professor Pedro Gil Ferreira has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s 2022 Gerald Whitrow Lecture in Astronomy.

Dr Becky Smethurst has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s 2022 Winton Award for Astronomy.

A team including astrophysicist Dr Mitchell Young from Oxford University has detected the fingerprints of atomic oxygen in the atmosphere of the hottest known exoplanet, KELT-9b.

PAH prove a promising new tool to probe the AGN-host galaxy connection

Astrophysicists at the University of Oxford are delighted that the Africa Millimetre Telescope (AMT) project has been given the green light – the first step towards having a radio telescope in Namibia.

Professor Steven Balbus has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Paul Dirac Medal and Prize 2021, and elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Physics

Roger Davies, Wetton Professor of Astrophyiscs and Director of the Hintze Centre for Astrophysical Surveys has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Fred Hoyle Medal and Prize 2021

Dr Rebecca Bowler has been awarded the Institute of Physics’ Henry Moseley Medal and Prize 2021, and elected as a Fellow of the Institute of Physics.

Professor Jayne Birkby from the Department of Physics at Oxford is one of five outstanding physicists to be recognised by the 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prize.

The Universities of Namibia and Oxford delivered a brand new online course over the summer: introduction to astronomy and astrotourism.