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Zero gravity graphene promises success in space

31 Jan 2018

In a series of experiments conducted last month, Cambridge researchers experienced weightlessness testing graphene’s application in space.

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Gaia’s first sky map

Gaia results revealed – first data release from the most detailed map ever made of the sky

14 Sep 2016

The first results from the Gaia satellite, which is completing an unprecedented census of more than one billion stars in the Milky Way, are being...

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X-ray view of the Perseus cluster

Dead satellite finds a calm centre at the heart of brightest galaxy cluster in the sky

06 Jul 2016

With its very first – and last – observation, the Hitomi x-ray observatory has discovered that the gas in the Perseus cluster of galaxies is much...

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Image taken in stratosphere using Android phone, from previous CUSF project ‘Squirrel 3’ which used smartphone to pilot high-altitude balloon

Your chance to ‘scream in space’ using smartphone technology

25 Oct 2012

Cambridge students will be loading human screams onto a smartphone that will be blasted into outer space later this year. The public are invited to...

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Sun's active region loops

New light shed on explosive solar activity

02 Jul 2012

The first images of an upward surge of the Sun’s gases into quiescent coronal loops have been identified by an international team of scientists. The...

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Gaia Deployable Sunshield Assembly

Twinkle, twinkle, little star: I’m going to know what you are

26 Apr 2012

A team of astronomers at the University of Cambridge is taking the next big step in a European-wide programme which will lead to the creation of the...

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Region mapped by Planck satellite

Probing the Universe: Kavli Institute for Cosmology

01 May 2010

Scientists at Cambridge’s Kavli Institute are studying how the Universe developed after the Big Bang by analysing light emitted up to 13.7 billion...

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