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Researchers from Oxford’s Department of Physics are part of a UK-based consortium that has recently been awarded an £18 million grant by the UK Research and Innovation Infrastructure Fund.

Professor Stephen Smartt joined the artist and author Oliver Jeffers on stage at the Cheltenham Literature Festival on Saturday 8 October in the Garden Theatre.

Research led by Dr Ismael García-Bernete from the University of Oxford is the first of its kind to study tiny dust molecules known as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the nuclear region of active galaxies using early observations from the JWST.

The Department of Physics is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Stephen Smartt CBE FRS as Philip Wetton Chair of Astrophysics.

An international group of researchers, including Dr Gareth Jones from Oxford’s Department of Physics, has put forward an alternative theory to the creation of a class of bright, massive galaxies in the early Universe

Professor Matt Jarvis has been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant designed to support excellent scientists who are already established research leaders with a recognised track record of research achievements.

Professor Andy Bunker gives a potted history of the JWST and shares his excitement for a revolution in observational astronomy

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.

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.

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.

Astrophysicist, Dr Becky Smethurst, talks all things astronomy to celebrate Astronomy Day, 7 May 2022.

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.