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Read more at: REACH can see the sky!

REACH can see the sky!

16 January 2024

REACH, the Radio Experiment for the Analysis of Cosmic Hydrogen, has been in development at KICC and other partner institutions around the World for over 5 years. Through COVID and many other hurdles, what has been designed to be the most accurate sensor of electromagnetic waves coming from the sky ever, has finally...

Read more at: Roberto Maiolino appointed Blaauw Professor at the University of Groningen
Roberto Maiolino

Roberto Maiolino appointed Blaauw Professor at the University of Groningen

22 December 2023

Roberto Maiolino has become the Blaauw Professor for 2024 at the University of Groningen. This is an honorary professorship in the field of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Kapteyn Astronomical Institute. This appointment will foster collaborations between the Kavli Institute and the Kapteyn Institute in multiple areas of...

Read more at: Prof Alessandra Buonanno to give the 2023 Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture
Image: Professor Alessandra Buonanno (Image credit: Markus Scholz für die Leopoldina)

Prof Alessandra Buonanno to give the 2023 Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture

3 November 2023

The 2023 Andrew Chamblin Memorial Lecture will be given by Prof Alessandra Buonanno at 5pm on Tuesday 14 November in MR2 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Her title is "Illuminating the dark universe with gravitational waves." For further details, and to book a (free) ticket, please see here: https://www.maths.cam...

Read more at: UK joins mission to trace Universe back to the Big Bang
Litebird Satellite

UK joins mission to trace Universe back to the Big Bang

6 October 2023

The UK will play a crucial role in a landmark mission to trace patterns in the light from space, looking back almost to the Big Bang, bringing us closer to understanding the nature of our Universe and how it began. The Japanese-led LiteBIRD mission (‘Light satellite for the study of B-mode polarization and Inflation from...

Read more at: Raising the veil on star formation near and far: A conference in honour of Richard Hills

Raising the veil on star formation near and far: A conference in honour of Richard Hills

8 September 2023

Between 22-26 April 2024, KICC will host a hybrid (online & on-site) meeting focusing on hidden and elusive star formation, from the local Universe to high redshift, and an occasion to remember Richard Hills. Stars form in sites that mostly escape detection at visible wavelengths, both in the local Universe and in...

Read more at: Dark energy could be measured by studying the galaxy next door

Dark energy could be measured by studying the galaxy next door

16 August 2023

Researchers, from the University of Cambridge, found that it may be possible to detect and measure dark energy by studying Andromeda, our galactic next-door neighbour that is on a slow-motion collision course with the Milky Way. Using a series of simulations based on the best available estimates of the mass of both...

Read more at: Webb sees carbon-rich dust grains in the first billion years of cosmic time

Webb sees carbon-rich dust grains in the first billion years of cosmic time

19 July 2023

weic2317b-h1dd3n.jpg For the first time, the James Webb Space Telescope has observed the chemical signature of carbon-rich dust grains in the early Universe. Similar observational signatures have been observed in the much more recent Universe, and have been attributed to complex, carbon-based molecules known as polycyclic...

Read more at: KICC research to benefit from UKRI investment

KICC research to benefit from UKRI investment

21 June 2023

Two areas of KICC research stand to benefit from UKRI investment upgrading UK research infrastructure £72 million funding includes £6.8 million to scope a second-generation instrumentation suite for the European Southern Observatory’s Extremely Large Telescope An £8 million investment in the conceptual design of new...

Read more at: Rare gravitational lens splits light of distant supernova into four images

Rare gravitational lens splits light of distant supernova into four images

12 June 2023

A team of physicists and astronomers led by researchers from the Oskar Klein Centre at Stockholm University has made an intriguing breakthrough in our ability to explore how galaxies warp the surrounding space with the discovery of a multiply-imaged lensed Type Ia supernova, dubbed “SN Zwicky”. The results are published in...

Read more at: Early universe crackled with bursts of star formation, Webb Telescope shows

Early universe crackled with bursts of star formation, Webb Telescope shows

6 June 2023

Among the most fundamental questions in astronomy is: How did the first stars and galaxies form? The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a partnership between NASA, the European Space Agency and the Canadian Space Agency, is already providing new insights into this question. One of the largest programmes in Webb’s first...

 

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