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Galaxies are cosmic cauldrons heated by star formation
Astronomers show that stars form rapidly and drive interstellar gas bubbles throughout galaxies.
23/05/19 -
Astrophysics Research Institute PhD student receives only UK award from NASA
LJMU has the highest number of Hubble Fellowships in the UK, as one of their latest awards goes to an Astrophysics Research Institute student straight out of her PhD. Dr Emma Beasor was also the only UK student awarded a Fellowship this year.
11/04/19 -
Astro-ecology: Counting orangutans using star-spotting technology
LJMU, WWF and HUTAN came together to examine better ways of detecting the great apes in the Bornean forest canopy, by using drones fitted with thermal-imaging cameras.
10/04/19 -
Discoveries of faint galaxies using supernovae
Tom Sedgwick, PhD student at the Astrophysics Research Institute (ARI), part of LJMU,has with a team of ARI astronomers discovered 140 ‘new’galaxies, with findings due to be published in April’s edition of the prestigious journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
27/02/19 -
Discovery of a New Galaxy in Cosmic Neighbourhood
Astronomers, including Professor Maurizio Salaris from the Astrophysics Research Institute at Liverpool John Moores University, used the Hubble Space Telescope to photograph the globular star cluster NGC 6752 (located 13,000 light-years away in our Milky Way's halo).
31/01/19 -
A giant interstellar bubble being grown in the Andromeda Galaxy
An international team of astrophysicists have uncovered an enormous bubble current being ‘blown’ by the regular eruptions from a binary star system within the Andromeda Galaxy.
10/01/19 -
Astrophysicist receives prestigious award for her work to protect endangered animals using drone technology
LJMU Astrophysicist Claire Burke has been named by the British Science Association (BSA) as a winner of its prestigious Award Lectures for 2018.
13/09/18 -
Above us only stars
A new project combining cutting edge astronomy with performance art was premiered at the European Week of Astronomy & Space Science (EWASS), organised by the European Astronomical Society and the Royal Astronomical Society in Liverpool on 3rd April.
05/04/18 -
LJMU scientist wins silver award in Parliament
Dr Claire Burke, an Astro-ecologist at LJMU’s Astrophysics Research Institute, was awarded the silver prize for physical sciences in Parliament at STEM for BRITAIN.
21/03/18 -
EU Horizon 2020 funding to uncover the ‘dark side’ of the Universe
We owe our very existence to dark matter. Galaxies as we know them, stars, planets, and people would not exist without its presence. Yet we still have very little understanding of its nature and origin
06/12/17