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X-ray light emitted by a “magnetar”, a highly magnetised dead star, suggests it has a solid crust with no atmosphere, according to a new study co-led by Prof Silvia Zane MullardSpaceScience UCL Mathematical & Physical Sciences with colleagues at Università di Padova ucl.ac.uk/news/2022/nov/…

Passed my #phd #viva yesterday with minor corrections 🎉🎉🎓big thanks to Vincent Van Eylen and Andrew Valentine for the great discussion! EarthSciences UCL MSSL Astronomy Group 🌟

Final version of my paper on #bayesian methods to solve large-scale spherical inverse problems in #seismology and #cosmology is now available! RAS Journals EarthSciences UCL MSSL Astronomy Group 🌟 tinyurl.com/4dh8dwfe

Many congratulations to our latest PhD graduate, Dr Brian Yu of MSSL Astronomy Group 🌟. He studied the hydrodynamic and spectroscopic properties of starburst-driven galactic outflows, using simulated and observational results.

Congratulations to our latest PhD graduate, Dr Anurag Deshpande of MSSL Astronomy Group 🌟! His thesis examines and updates the theoretical formalism used to compute the effects of weak gravitational lensing, in preparation for a new generation of weak lensing surveys.

Stars with less than half the mass of our Sun are able to host giant Jupiter-style planets, in conflict with the most widely accepted theory of how such planets form, finds a new study led by Dr Edward Bryant MullardSpaceScience with University of Warwick & Science and Technology Facilities Council ucl.ac.uk/news/2023/mar/…

Swift's UVOT MSSL Astronomy Group 🌟 & Alice Breeveld played a small but important role in identifying a black hole in a distant galaxy repeatedly nibbling on a Sun-like star. Discovered by Phil Evans 's novel Swift X-ray Transient Detector. nasa.gov/feature/goddar…

Dr Paola Pinilla is an Associate Professor in MSSL Astronomy Group 🌟 since 2021 - congratulations!

Welcoming Dr. Syeda Noureen to the MSSL Astro Group: "I am on a postdoctoral scholarship from Pakistan to work with Prof Silvia Zane & Prof Kinwah Wu. It's a great honour to be a part of the group. We are working on an energy transfer mechanism of various astrophysical objects."

MSSL Astronomy Group 🌟 has lost a valued friend and colleague held in the highest esteem. Other than 2 years at Harvard (1977-1979), Prof Graziella Branduardi-Raymont spent her fantastic 49-year career at MullardSpaceScience, starting with her PhD in 1974. ucl.ac.uk/mssl/news/2023…

Congratulations to MSSL Astronomy Group 🌟's Professors Silvia Zane and Kinwah Wu, who are part of NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) team that has recently been awarded the 2024 Bruno Rossi Prize, which is the top prize in high-energy astronomy: ucl.ac.uk/mathematical-p…

Congratulations to MSSL Astro Group's Paola Pinilla on her involvement in this survey which is revealing secrets of planet birth around dozens of stars ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/mar/…

A large dormant black hole has been spotted not far from Earth, just under 2,000 light years away, by the ESA Gaia space mission involving Dr George Seabroke MullardSpaceScience. It is the heaviest known black hole in our galaxy formed from an exploding star ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/apr/…

We have great pleasure in announcing the winners of our Student Presentation Prizes from our Summer Meeting on 4th July. Congratulations to all the winners and thank you for helping to make such a successful event! 👏🤩🎉🪐 ucl.ac.uk/planetary-scie…

Congratulations Ross! 🏆🫡🪐

#WeeklyAstroMeeting - An internal seminar by Dr Anibal Sierra on protoplanetary disks as part of the AGEPRO Alma Large Program. Head to | Anibal Sierra 〉📡🪐's page for more information on his current research! Fantastic work! 🪐📡

Our students at the lab were lucky enough to catch the aurora borealis this weekend! Wow ✨

#WeeklyAstroMeeting we had two fantastic internal seminars: Juanita: the degree of dust settling and turbulence in highly inclined protoplanetary discs & Lilian: modelling dust evolution and substructures in protoplanetary disks: Insights from the AGE-PRO ALMA Program 🪐🌌📡🙌👏

Happy holidays from MSSL Astronomy Group and best wishes for 2025!

Congratulations to MullardSpaceScience Astro Group's Paola Pinilla for finding that planet-forming discs are much smaller than previously thought! ucl.ac.uk/news/2025/mar/…