Our latest MandelZoom paper, led by Eun-jin Shin (Postdoc @cambridgeastro.bsky.social) is out on arXiv today! This work explores the impact of different stellar feedback mechanisms on black hole growth in dwarf galaxies! #astro #astrocoding

A powerful new telescope has captured its first glimpse of the cosmos, and could transform our understanding of how stars, galaxies and black holes evolve. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

KICC success in ESA’s 2025 Call for Missions www.kicc.cam.ac.uk/news/kicc-su...

Professor David Tong from @trincollcam.bsky.social @cambridgemaths.bsky.social will give our first lecture on 'Our Chiral Universe'. Larmor Lecture - 13 October, 18:00–19:00 Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Cambridge. Booking: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event...

Stars are interesting in many ways and seeing them is more complex than one may imagine. They also change on timescales from seconds to years. Read about Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow, Prof Gerry Gilmore's project @cambridgeastro.bsky.social media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/ggil... #WorldSpaceWeek 🚀

Our Travel Grants are now open for application. Deadline for applications is 01 Nov 2025 Deadline for references is 08 Nov 2025 For more information and to apply: www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/funding/trav...

Tickets are now available for The PdOC Research Showcase 2025 on 10th November 2025 at West Hub, Cambridge. @westcamhub @CamPostdocs Book tickets here: www.tickettailor.com/events/thewe... Sponsored by the Cambridge Philosophical Society

Having led strategic coordination in optical astronomy for twenty-five years, Professor Gerry Gilmore is now building a sustainable alliance for the European-wide network of observatories initially built to support the Gaia mission. media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/ggil... @cambridgeastro.bsky.social

Having led strategic coordination in optical astronomy for twenty-five years, Gerry Gilmore is now building a sustainable alliance for the European-wide network of observatories initially built to support the Gaia mission media.leverhulme.ac.uk/feature/ggil...

The Final Frontier: Black Holes in the Infant Universe 9 September - Ray Dolby Center in West Cambridge. Join Lord Rees, Prof. Natarajan, Prof. Sijacki and Prof. Maiolino for this exciting public talk. Details: sites.google.com/cam.ac.uk/mb... @cambridgeastro.bsky.social

Dr Valeriya Korol will join the Institute of Astronomy on a prestigious Ernest Rutherford Fellowship www.ast.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-vale...

Dr Valeriya Korol will join the Institute of Astronomy on a prestigious Ernest Rutherford Fellowship www.ast.cam.ac.uk/news/dr-vale...

Astronomers find new evidence for planet around our closest solar twin www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

A gas giant the size of Saturn could be hiding in orbit around Alpha Centauri A - the third-brightest star in the sky and the closest 'twin' to our own Sun - according to new data from @esa.int's James Webb telescope and @cambridgeastro.bsky.social www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

Astronomers find new evidence for planet around our closest solar twin www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet – between three and ten times the size of Jupiter – hiding in the swirling disc of gas and dust surrounding a young star. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

Astronomers have detected a giant exoplanet – between three and ten times the size of Jupiter – hiding in the swirling disc of gas and dust surrounding a young star. www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

We are saddened to report the passing of Cyril Hazard (18 March 1928 – 14 June 2025). Cyril was a pioneering radio astronomer whose work on quasars helped transform our understanding of the Universe. www.ast.cam.ac.uk/news/cyril-h...

We are saddened to report the passing of Cyril Hazard (18 March 1928 – 14 June 2025). Cyril was a pioneering radio astronomer whose work on quasars helped transform our understanding of the Universe. www.ast.cam.ac.uk/news/cyril-h...

At NAM 2025 in Durham @nam25-durham.bsky.social Anke Ardern-Arentsen is speaking on Carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars as probes for early chemical enrichment. Anke has published in #MNRAS: academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...

A Victorian woman astronomer at Cambridge has finally been honoured after more than a century – with her own asteroid 🌠 New research co-authored by Mark Hurn @cambridgeastro.bsky.social reveals that Annie Walker was the first woman at Cambridge paid to observe the heavens 👇 bit.ly/4lDubug

A story about Annie Walker, a 19th cent. astronomer who worked at the Cambridge Observatory, a forerunner to the IoA ... www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

“This exploration is bound to throw up surprises that we never imagined,” said Professor Hiranya Peiris from @cambridgeastro.bsky.social, one of the UK astronomers who will be using the Rubin Observatory to explore the universe. Find out about its mission: www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

#ESAGaia has delivered on its primary goal of building the largest, most precise map of the Milky Way, showing us our home galaxy like no other mission has done before. Discover more about #ourGalaxy with this slider tool 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed... 🔭 🧪

Cambridge researcher awarded the Shaw Prize in Astronomy www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

The 2022 Royal Astronomical Society Gold Medal winner Professor George Efstathiou (right) and Professor John Richard Bond (left) have jointly received the 2025 Shaw Prize in Astronomy. ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...?

Narlikar was one of the original staff of the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy in Cambridge, which later became the IoA. www.nature.com/articles/d44...

The 2025 Gruber Cosmology Prize has been awarded to Professor Max Pettini (IoA) and Professor Ryan Cooke (who is currently faculty at Durham, and was an IoA PhD student 2008-2011). www.ast.cam.ac.uk/news/2025-gr...

The 2025 Gruber Cosmology Prize has been awarded to Professor Max Pettini (IoA) and Professor Ryan Cooke (who is currently faculty at Durham, and was an IoA PhD student 2008-2011). www.ast.cam.ac.uk/news/2025-gr...

George Efstathiou, Professor of Astrophysics will talk about the The Fate of the Universe at the upcoming 'Light & Dark' Research Cafe on 19th May at the The Betty & Gordon Moore Library @cambridgeastro.bsky.social @cambridgephysics.bsky.social Details: moore.libraries.cam.ac.uk/moore-librar...

Excited to hear today that Annie Walker (1863-1940) has been honored with an asteroid named after her. Annie was a Computer at the Cambridge Observatory 1879-1903 but also carried out the duties of an Observer, producing two major catalogues of stars. www.wgsbn-iau.org/files/Bullet...

It was great to collaborate with Stephanie Buttigieg (PhD student @cambridgeastro.bsky.social) on her paper, just out on arXiv today: "Premature supermassive black hole mergers in cosmological simulations of structure formation" arxiv.org/abs/2504.17549 #astro #astrocoding #cosmology

3 Gates Cambridge Scholars - @luiswel.bsky.social, @rebeccacharbon.bsky.social & Yinuo Han - debate planets, space and the meaning of life in the latest episode of our So, now what? podcast - www.gatescambridge.org/about/news/w... @uniofcam.bsky.social @cambridgeastro.bsky.social #GatesCambridge25

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they remain cautious. www.cam.ac.uk/stories/stro...

Astronomers have detected the most promising signs yet of a possible biosignature outside the solar system, although they remain cautious. www.cam.ac.uk/stories/stro...

Research Café on Light and Dark, with a Keynote by Professor George Efstathiou on 'The Fate of the Universe'. 19th May 2025 11:30 am - 14:30 pm

Jeremiah Ostriker (1937-2025) www.ast.cam.ac.uk/news/jeremia...

Gaia has been part of life at the Institute for more than twenty years ... www.cam.ac.uk/research/new...

Fully Paid Scholarships available for women in #astronomy. #TaughtMPhilPSLU @cambridgeastro.bsky.social is excited to 📣 scholarships for Home-fee status female students. #theParasolFoundation and #MurrayEdwardsCollege www.pslu.masters.cam.ac.uk.

It's the final Wednesday Public Open Evening of the season! This evening, two astronomers, Katherine Kauma and Sarah Kane, will debate the question "Are white dwarfs stars"? The talk starts at 7:15pm, and stargazing will follow (if the clouds allow). www.youtube.com/live/LxxapSS...

We have a special International Women's Day public open evening tonight! Three IoA astronomers will talk about their research, and about some of the inspirational women in astronomy who have contributed to the field. Doors open at 6:30pm. Watch on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/2xz9-BP...

We have another public open evening tonight! This week, we have Prof. Sandro Tacchella, talking about stars and black holes in the early Universe. Doors open at 6:30pm, and stargazing will follow the talk (if the clouds allow). It will also stream on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/vGOTfHh...

1/ Are you an undergraduate student looking for a career in astronomy? The Institute of Astronomy's Summer Internship Programme could be for you! bit.ly/3WmdCsv

1/ Are you an undergraduate student looking for a career in astronomy? The Institute of Astronomy's Summer Internship Programme could be for you! bit.ly/3WmdCsv

We have another public open evening tonight! This week, we have Gabriel Maheson, giving us A Dusty Guide to Dusty Galaxies. Doors open at 6:30pm, the talk starts at 7:15pm, and stargazing will follow (if the clouds allow). The talk will also stream on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/LHK1ONB...

There are some amazing upcoming space events at the Royal Institution! Including a Friday Discourse by IoA Professor George Efstathiou.

It's great to see this work by Leah Bigwood (PhD student @cambridgeastro.bsky.social) on how simulated AGN feedback shapes the matter power spectrum and group/cluster observables! It was a pleasure to collaborate on this study.