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Proposed memorial sculpture to honour the father of English astronomy
The 380-year-old story of a humble yeoman farmer’s son who, only just out of his teenage years, revolutionised our ideas
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Into the Zooniverse: An interview with Prof Chris Lintott
From exoplanet detections to images of the early Universe, an overwhelming flood of astronomical data since the mid-2000s has produced
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Rosetta’s comets – amateur & schools’ campaigns
I attended a Royal Astronomical Society specialist discussion meeting on 2019 Dec 13 entitled ‘Cometary science with Rosetta: striking, timely
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Presentation of Edinburgh’s Lorimer Medal to Ron Livesey
On 2019 Sep 14, the Lorimer Medal of the Astronomical Society of Edinburgh was awarded to Ronald J. Livesey at
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