A team of astronomers have used the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) on Hawaii to discover four pairs of stars that orbit each other in less than 4 hours. Until now it was thought that such ...

The smallest smart telescope ever made impresses with both basic and advanced astrophotography options, but images are strictly for sharing ...

This dramatic image is the first to be produced by e-MERLIN, a powerful new array of radio telescopes linked across the UK. Spearheaded by the University of Manchester’s Jodrell Bank Observatory and ...

Richard Massey receives funding from the UK Space Agency to support Euclid, and leads UK involvement in the SuperBIT balloon-born telescope. In recent decades, we’ve learnt huge amounts about the ...

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