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Royal Observatory
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06 Apr 2008
This years National Astronomy Meeting at the Queen's University Belfast came to a close on Friday, after 4 days of talks on the latest breakthroughs in UK astronomical research.
There were so many excellent talks this year, that it was impossible to keep up blogging about them! So expect a few more blogs to appear from me over the next week.
Many press articles were released during the week, including...
- World's largest digital camera to change view of the Universe
- Witnessing the formation of distant galaxies
- Quasars quash star formation in Active Galactic Nuclei
- Science and art of Hubble Space Telescope on show at Queen's
- Astronomers find embryonic planet
- The source of the solar wind
- The sun's magnetic fountains
- "Focused" solar explosions get hotter
- Stereo snaps first footage of a solar tsunami
- Flames leave astronomers in a spin
- The evolution of venus: first too fast, then too slow
- Planet finder catches a comet
- Catching a shooting star on Mars
- Chance of finding earthlike planets on the 'RISE' as UK astronomers deploy new camera
- Do dwarf galaxies favour Mond over dark matter?
- Revealing the multi-wavelength sky with AstroGrid
- Newborn Brown Dwarfs Stir up the Neighbourhood
- The (Super)Wasp factory finds 10 new planets in the last 6 months
- GCSE astronomy: A rising star for schoolchildren
- Magnetic substorms from ground and space
- Medical X-ray technique unveils the Sun's corona
- Two supernova factories found in the Milky Way
- Old galaxies stick together in the young universe
- Stars burst into life in the early universe
At the end of the meeting, it was announced that next year's National Astronomy Meeting is to be held at the University of Hertfordshire. Many of us are looking forward to it already!