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Supercharged telescope to investigate Milky Way

The latest addition to the William Herschel Telescope will be able to survey 1,000 stars per hour revealing how our galaxy formed in unprecedented detail.
1 August 2022
Artist impression of the 76s pulsar (in magenta) compared to other more rapidly spinning sources.

Strange neutron star discovered in stellar graveyard

An international team of scientists, including Professor Rob Fender, Dr Ian Heywood and Dr Jakob van den Eijnden from the University of Oxford, have discovered a strange radio emitting neutron star, which rotates extremely slowly.
30 May 2022
Image of an ultraluminous infrared galaxy taken  by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and the revived Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS).

New insight into ultra-luminous infrared galaxies

As part of a wider collaboration, Professor Dimitra Rigopoulou and her group have used a new method to find out more about a highly star-forming class of galaxies in the Universe.
26 May 2022
Dr Becky Smethurst

Celebrating Astronomy Day

Astrophysicist, Dr Becky Smethurst, talks all things astronomy to celebrate Astronomy Day, 7 May 2022.
7 May 2022
Aerial view of the SKAO GHQ, Jodrell Bank, at sunrise

Oxford to work on world's largest radio telescope

A team from Oxford's Department of Physics is one of two from Oxford who will work on the crucial software and computer hardware for the Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO), the world's largest radio telescope.
11 April 2022
Graphic showing winds from a neutron star

Warm winds witnessed in neutron star first

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.
2 March 2022
Image of the Milky Way from the MeerKAT telescope

Brand new insight into Milky Way centre

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.
26 January 2022
Professor Pedro Ferreira

Professor Ferreira recognised by RAS

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

Dr Becky Smethurst recognised by RAS

Dr Becky Smethurst has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society’s 2022 Winton Award for Astronomy.
14 January 2022
Artist's impression of spectra of exoplanet

Simulation accurately predicts oxygen in atmosphere of hottest known exoplanet

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.
22 December 2021
Artist's impression showing the surroundings of an SMBH at the heart of NGC 3783, an AGN in the Southern constellation of Centaurus. A wind of material in the polar region of the nucleus is visible. PAH emission is thought to originate in the inner parts of the galaxy disk which hosts the SMBH

Probing active galactic nuclei with Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

PAH prove a promising new tool to probe the AGN-host galaxy connection
13 December 2021
Artist's impression of the planned Africa Millimetre Telescope

Africa Millimetre Telescope gets green light

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.
9 December 2021
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