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2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
News and press releases
2019
A ground-based near-ultraviolet secondary eclipse observation of the hottest exoplanet
Queen's Astronomer discovers comet in ATLAS survey
BBC Sky at Night
interviews
Queen's astronomer about the New Horizons flyby
2nd Holywood Scouts earn their astronomy badge with the Astrophysics Research Centre
Holy Cow! our ATLAS discovery is still perplexing astronomers
Construction begins on the next generation spectrometer at ESO - SOXS
Queen's astronomer helps to find an exoplanet atmosphere free of clouds
Queen's researchers hold a key meeting in Belfast to plan the next generation of solar telescope in Europe.
2018
Samuel Grant, David Jess, Peter Keys, Scott Houston & Rebecca Hewitt show in new paper how the Sun's atmosphere is heated
UKRI STFC Introductory Course in Astronomy for New Research Students - at Queen's beginning 27th August
Queen’s researchers Prof. Stephen Smartt and Dr. David Jess honoured by the Royal Astronomical Society
2017
The icy nature of the first interstellar object 'Oumuamua is revealed by ARC astronomers
Michele Bannister
elected
to serve on the
AAS Division of Planetary Sciences Committee
Queen's astronomers engage in solar eclipse experiment and scientific outreach
The first electromagnetic counterpart of a gravitational wave source has been found, a kilonova associated with GW170817, read more here.
Queen’s astronomer and international experts make major exoplanet discovery
Michele Bannister interviewed by the BBC Sky at Night about TNOs
Alan Fitzsimmons talks to Brian Cox and others on Asteroid Day 2017
Adaptive Optics resolved images of asteroid 6 Hebe by Michael Marsset & team are the ESO Picture of the Week.
Cloudy Workshop 2017 delivered by Prof Gary Ferland of the University of Kentucky, the creator of Cloudy.
Three asteroids named after ARC astronomers
New paper led by Wes Fraser demonstrates that Neptune's migration was calm and smooth
Prof Alan Fitzsimmons is filmed comet hunting with the Isaac Newton Telescope by the BBC Sky at Night team
New paper led by Anders Jerkstrand peers deep into superluminous explosions
Cosimo Inserra wins the 2017 Royal Astronomical Society's Winton Capital award
Largest digital survey of the visible Universe : The Pan-STARRS1 data are publicly released
PESSTO's view of ASASSN-15lh - spinning black hole swallows star
and a news article from the
BBC is linked here
Nature Astronomy is launched and ARC co-authors two of the first three papers in the early release
2016
David Armstrong and Ernst de Mooij find weather on faraway gas giant
RAS Specialist Discussion Meeting, 'The Golden Age of Extragalactic Optical Transient Surveys', held March 10th 2017 at the RAS, London
A team of QUB scientists led by Dr. Cosimo Inserra unveil the shape of the brightest supernovae
Four-week MIAPP programme, 'The Physics of Supernovae' organised by ARC astronomer, Dr. Kate Maguire
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Perfect day for Mercury transit and Michael West lecture at Queen's
QUB will play a leading role in the UK consortium that has joined the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
The May 2016 Michael West Lecture, "Einstein's Gravity: from the transit of Mercury to the detection of gravitational waves",
was delivered by Prof. Patrick Brady.
See here for details
2016 Transit of Mercury.
On May 9th ARC hosted public viewings of the transit of Mercury as part of the
Mercury and Einstein's Gravity
Event.
See here for details
Fermilab's symmetry magazine on LIGO follow-up, in conversation with Prof Smartt
Black holes from LIGO : how did they form and can we spot them
Pan-STARRS and PESSTO on the hunt for source of gravitational waves
LIGO detects gravitational waves
. Initial comments from ARC staff in
The Conversation
2016-07-08 - ARC Astronomers describe ESA Rosetta findings at Royal Society Summer Exhibition 2016
Dr Heather Cegla at the 2016 Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
2016-06-15 - First Detection of Methyl Alcohol in a Planet-forming Disc's
2016-05-09 - Perfect day for Mercury transit and Michael West lecture at Queen's
QUB will play a leading role in the UK consortium that has joined the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
2016-05-09 - The May 2016 Michael West Lecture, "Einstein's Gravity: from the transit of Mercury to the detection of gravitational waves",
was delivered by Prof. Patrick Brady.
See here for details and registration
2016-05-05 - Fermilab's symmetry magazine on LIGO follow-up, in conversation with Prof Smartt
2016-02-16 - Black holes from LIGO : how did they form and can we spot them
2016-02-12 - Pan-STARRS and PESSTO on the hunt for source of gravitational waves
2016-02-11 - LIGO detects gravitational waves
. Initial comments from ARC staff in
The Conversation
2016-01-14 - 100 years and counting: women in the RAS:
Dr Kate Maguire in selection of top UK female astronomers, celebrating 100 years of female fellows of the RAS
Full selection of portraits here.
2015
2015-12-29 - ARC Astronomer investigates the Star of Bethlehem in BBC Christmas special
2015-12-18 - Queen’s researchers in starlight discovery to solve missing water mystery
2015-11-30 - "Through the elliptical haze" - Hubble's picture of the week taken by Stephen Smartt
2015-11-17 - Nature Physics paper reports leap forward in predicting solar flares
2015-11-11 - ARC welcomes two new Royal Society and STFC fellows - Neale Gibson and Kate Maguire
2015-10-28 - Queen’s astronomer updates what Rosetta's comet is doing
2015-09-11 - Queen’s hosts Summer School for astrophysics graduate students
2015-08-27 - Michael West Lecture - Exoplanets and the search for extraterrestrial life.
2015-06-26 - The Royal Irish Academy 2015 McCrea Lecture - Are Comets the Givers and Takers of Life?
2015-06-14 - Alan Fitzsimmons hails Philae's reconnection
2015-05-12 - Cloudy mornings and hot afternoons: Tracking weather on alien worlds
2015-04-15 - Introductory STFC Summer School - Atomic processes and spectral modelling in astrophysics
2015-03-20 - Solar Eclipse, Jupiter watch and Stargazing live at Queen's
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2015-03-12 - ARC young scientist strikes Silver for physics display in Parliament
2015-03-06 - The fastest unbound star in our Galaxy ejected by a thermonuclear supernova
2015-03-03 - ARC's Chris Watson stars in BBC Horizon's "Secrets of the Solar System"
2015-02-10 - ARC plays leading role in construction of the world's biggest solar telescope
2015-01-19 - ARC hosts international Winter School for research students
2015-01-14 - NGTS planet hunter achieves first light - ESO release
2014
2014-12-01 - Queen's scientist leads study of 'Super-Earth'
2014-09-26 - ARC student named amongst brightest and most innovative in the world
2014-08-20 - Queen's and NASA join forces in major international investigation into solar flares
2014-07-11 - Announcement of a free Public Lecture in collaboration with Ulster Museum
2014-02-06 - ARC astronomers help measure internal structure of Near-Earth Asteroid
2014-01-28 - Cloudy Summer School 2014 to be held at QUB
2014-01-08 - ARC's Ryan Milligan - The truck driver turned NASA astrophysicist
2013
2013-11-22 - Queen's astronomer in 'starring' role in BBC Horizon programme
2013-10-30 - ARC astronomers measure new Earth-sized planet which should not exist
2013-10-17 - New lecturer Dr. Markus Janson takes image of a planet around a sun like star
2013-10-17 - ARC scientists shed new light on star death
2013-06-27 - Pedro Lacerda to feature in Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibition on Ice Worlds
2013-05-31 - "It's a big one…" Prof Fitzsimmons talks to the BBC as Asteroid 1998 QE2 flies past Earth
2013-05-20 - QUB Astronomer provides ESO Picture of the Week
2012-04-03 - ARC member dines with the Vice-Chancellor at Benefactor's lunch
2013-03-11 - Queen's discovered comet visible in UK and Irish skies
2013-03-04 - Queen's astronomer offers insight into Russian meteor strike in BBC Horizon special
2013-02-15 - ARC staff talk to local and national news about today's meteor and asteroid events
2013-01-23 - ARC's Ryan Milligan talks to the Irish Daily Star about his role with NASA
2013-01-22 - "Experience the Universe" - sixth-formers on work placements experience science in action
2013-01-20 - Public invited to join Queen's astronomers for Jupiter Watch
2012
2012-12-12 - Astronomy STEPS at local primary school
2012-12-01 - QUB astronomers talk to schools at W5
2012-11-14 - Professor Smartt honoured with Taiwan lectureship award
2012-10-05 - Join us for a day of family fun at Armagh Planetarium
2012-09-18 - Rubina Kotak Joins E-ELT Project Science Team
2012-09-03 - ARC Director presents invited talk at ESO@50
2012-05-04 - Published in Nature : Pan-STARRS discovers star shredded by supermassive black hole
2012-05 - Royal Irish Academy honours leading Queen's Scholars
2012-04 - PESSTO survey kicks off its public supernova survey
2012-04 - Drummer, trucker, and ARC Solar Physicist Ryan Milligan speaks to the Irish Times
2012-04 - Lasertag W5: Planet Quest
2012-04 - ARC astronomers find progenitor of nearby supernova in M95
2012-03-07 - Prof Smartt to lead E2.3M hunt for Universe's first exploding star
2012-02-24 - NEOShield project starts assessing Earth defence
2012-02-01 - PhD student awarded prestigious grant
2011
2011-12-05 - ARC Astronomer Philip Dufton finds fastest rotating star in the LMC
(ESO release)
2011-11-22 - ISS flyby over Queen's
2011-11-14 - ARC astronomer Justyn R. Maund awarded prestigious Royal Society University Research Fellowship
2011-11-08 - Prof. Fitzsimmons talks to BBC about the giant asteroid fly-by on 8th November
2011-10-10 - Queens hails Nobel prizewinning partners
2011-07-01 - The Michael West Lectures, a new series of public lectures in astronomy at QUB
2011-06-22 - Prof. Smartt talks to Natasha Sayee from BBC Radio Ulster's What's Next programme
2011-05-27 - 365 Days of Astronomy – Pan-STARRScast
2011-02-23 - ARC PhD student Matt McCrum blogs about working with PS1
2011-02-14 - ARC joins HARPS-N search for earth-like planets
2010
2010-12-09 - Diamonds abundant on WASP-12b
(BBC News link)
2010-11-05 - ARC Astronomer on BBC's "The Sky At Night"
2010-10-26 - Asteroid collision revealed by Queen’s astronomers
2010-08-04 - Seeing a Stellar Explosion in 3D
2010-06-25 - RISE2 Commissioned at Aristarchos Telescope in Greece
2010-06-22 - A stomy time for the Sun
2010-06-17 - PanSTARRS survey begins full operations
2010-02-24 - FP7 Grant in Astrochemical Surface Science Awarded
2010-02-19 - Queens Astronomers to work at YORP speed
2010-01-08 - SuperWASP team awarded RAS Group Achievement Award for Astronomy
2010-01-06 - ARC hosts meeting on "Next Generation Sky Surveys : The Transient Sky"
2009
2009-12-18 - ARC Solar Physicist awarded RAS Keith Runcorn Prize for thesis
2009-10-14 - Queens Astronomers Framed
2009-06-22 - ARC hosts PLATO science meeting
2009-06-12 - ARC astronomers propose new supernovae interpretation
2009-05-26 - ARC hosts Regent House school pupils for physics podcast
2009-04-06 - New 'stars' join ARC
2009-03-25 - ARC astronomers observe asteroid before it crashes into Earth
2009-03-20 - Scientists find giant solar twists
2009-03-20 - Disappearing stars confirm supernova progenitors
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