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Sophia Vaughan

Commentary: Sophia Vaughan on searching for an exo-rainbow

DPhil student Sophia Vaughan comments on her work with an international collaboration on how the search for exo-rainbows could soon reveal an Earth-like planet.
31 July 2023
An infrared image taken as part of the JADES programme (the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey), showing a portion of an area of the sky known as GOODS-South where the observation in the study was made.

The dust of ages

The James Webb Space Telescope detects interstellar dust grains in the first billion years of cosmic time
20 July 2023
Emeritus Savilian Professor Joe Silk

Why we need to go back to the Moon

Emeritus Professor Joe Silk on why we need to go back to the Moon
20 July 2023
Cartoon commissioned to celebrate the career of Professor Roger Davies

Celebrating Professor Roger Davies

On 30 June 2023, more than 100 people gathered in the Martin Wood lecture theatre to celebrate the contributions, achievements and career of Professor Roger Davies.
17 July 2023
An illustration of the planets in our solar system divided into three categories

Smartt learning

Professor Stephen Smartt from the Department of Physics has collaborated with renowned author and illustrator, Oliver Jeffers, to produce a suite of learning resources to challenge kids to think about life, earth and the universe in a whole new way.
5 July 2023
ESA’s latest astrophysics mission, Euclid, lifted off on a Space X Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA, at 17:12 CEST on 1 July 2023.

Successful launch for Euclid

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Euclid flagship Dark Energy Satellite Mission successfully launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Saturday 1 July 2023
3 July 2023
Construction of the Extremely Large Telescope in Chile

New instruments to improve understanding of universe

A team at Oxford are leading an international consortium to develop the Extremely Large Telescope's first light spectroscopic facility instrument known as HARMONI.
29 June 2023
Professor Chris Lintott

Professor Lintott appointed Gresham Professor

Professor Chris Lintott has been appointed Gresham Professor of Astronomy, one of the college’s ten professorships that are filled by leaders and pioneers in a range of artistic fields.
22 June 2023
J1912-4410 appears as one of many unremarkable compact radio sources among some extended radio galaxies in this 8-hour MeerKAT image, showing radio emission at a frequency of 1.28 GHz. However, when the data are finely sliced into two second snapshot images, the strong radio pulses from this newly discovered white dwarf pulsar are clearly revealed.

White dwarf pulsar discovery sheds light on star evolution

The discovery of a rare type of spinning white dwarf star in a binary star system – only the second one known – provides a new understanding into the role of magnetic fields in stellar evolution.
15 June 2023
Dr Andrew Mummery

Thesis recognition for Dr Andrew Mummery

Dr Andrew Mummery from Oxford’s Department of Physics has been recognised by the International Astronomical Union and the Royal Astronomical Society for his thesis.
14 June 2023
Dr David Hosking

Thesis treble for Dr David Hosking

Department of Physics alumnus, Dr David Hosking, has been awarded another two prizes for his University of Oxford thesis, ‘The decay of MHD turbulence and the primordial origin of magnetic fields in cosmic voids’.
14 June 2023
Heloise Stevance

Meet...Heloise Stevance

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
8 June 2023
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