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1. New solar panels installed at Redmonds Building

   LJMU are completing key actions within the Carbon Management Plan by installing renewable energy technologies across the university estate.

2. Astronomers catch Tatooine multiple star system as it forms

   For the first time astronomers, including Dr Richard Parker, of the Astrophysics Research Institute at LJMU, have caught a multiple-star system as it is created, and their observations are providing new insight into how such systems, and possibly the solar system, are formed. The amazing images taken from a series of telescopes on Earth show clouds of gas which are in the process of developing into stars.

3. Microplastics ‘abundant’ in remote polar seas

   There are similar concentrations of microplastic pollution on the seabed in Antarctica as in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean, scientists have found.

4. A unique astronomical anniversary for the ARI: The Return of Comet Longmore

   Find out about how a comet discovered by an astronomer in the 1970s has been rediscovered by his son at LJMU over 40 years later

5. Oxygen discovered in most distant early galaxy

   Researcher Dr Renske Smit at LJMU's Astrophysics Research Institute worked on the analysis of images from the European Southern Observatory

6. Researchers on hand at Tim Peake link up

   Researchers from LJMU’s Astrophysics Research Institute and School of Sport and Exercise Sciences supported the live in-flight call with British astronaut Tim Peake, which took place at Liverpool’s World Museum.

7. Major project to cut carbon on campus

   A major environmental project at LJMU’s John Lennon Art and Design Building will save around 188 tonnes of carbon every year.

8. 'Back where it all began' for Captain Robert

   Chief Officer on British Antarctic Survey ship and graduate of maritime studies at LJMU speaks to us.

9. Are we alone? Professor Monica Grady delivers latest Roscoe lecture

   Are we alone? Is there the possibility of life elsewhere beyond the earth? This was the subject of a fascinating lecture on the cosmos and the universe in the latest Roscoe lecture at St Georges Hall, delivered by Monica Grady, Professor of Planetary and Space Sciences at the Open University (OU)

10. Scientists deliver sustainable mining workshop in the Philippines

    Dr Patrick Byrne and Dr Emma Biles from LJMUs School of Biological and Environmental Sciences recently delivered a week-long sustainable mining workshop in the Philippines