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A medal designating the award of Commander of the Order of the British Empire. The medal has a red ribbon, a metal crown and four blue arms around two figures with crowns on a central disc.

RAS Fellows recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours

Dr Megan Argo and Professor Stephen Smartt FRS, both Fellows of the Royal Astronomical Society, are to receive national honours. Professor Smartt, of Queen’s University Belfast, is made Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CB…

Front cover of RAS Techniques and Instruments

RAS Techniques and Instruments Editorial Volume 1, Issue 1

Co-authored by Editor-in-Chief, Jonathan Tennyson and Deputy Editor-in-Chief, Anna Scaife, the inaugural editorial in our new open access journal RAS Techniques and Instruments was published on 25th May 2022. The e…

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RAS Council Election Results 2022

The results of the 2022 council elections were announced at the 202nd AGM of the Royal Astronomical Society. After serving as President-Elect for the past year, Professor Mike Edmunds is now the President of the Royal Astronomical Society, and will…

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Prof. Dr Eva Grebel wins first Caroline Herschel Medal

Prof. Dr Eva Grebel, an astrophysicist at Heidelberg University, is the first winner of the Caroline Herschel Medal, a new joint award from the Royal Astronomical Society and the German Astronomical Society (Astronomische Gesellschaft, AG), launched…

The Earth showing a glowing atmosphere around it with a banner reading the title 'Celebrating 100 Years of Geophysics at the RAS'

100 years of publishing geophysics

The Royal Astronomical Society has been publishing scientific research papers for almost 200 years. This year we celebrate the 100th anniversary of publishing geophysics papers. We’d like to thank our readers, authors…

Dr Rebecca Smethurst Wins 2022 RAS Research Fellowship

The Royal Astronomical Society is pleased to announce that Dr Rebecca Smethurst has been awarded the 2022 RAS Research Fellowship. The purpose of the RAS Research Fellowships is to enable outstanding candidates to pursue research in the UK in…

RAS Statement on the Russian Invasion of Ukraine

The Royal Astronomical Society deeply regrets the illegal military invasion of Ukraine, a sovereign democratic nation, by Russia. Our thoughts and hopes go out to our fellow scientists and all the citizens of Ukraine for their safety and well-be…

Eruption of Hunga Volcano: special issue of GJI

Geophysical Journal International (GJI) welcomes contributions to a special issue devoted to the eruptive sequence of Hunga volcano (Tonga islands) that began on 14 January 2022. This eruption produced what is perhaps the largest volcanic explos…

An artist's impression of the circumbinary planetary system Kepler 16-b. A planet is seen in the foreground, with 2 orange and yellow-hued stars in the background. Faint stars can be seen in the background.

‘Tatooine-like’ exoplanet spotted by ground-based telescope

A team of astronomers, led by Professor Amaury Triaud of the University of Birmingham, has detected a rare type of exoplanet using a ground-based telescope. The exoplanet is circumbinary, meaning it orbits around two stars at once, and until now had…

Two white-blue coloured spheres are shown merging in space, with tendrils of plasma coming from their merging point. Blue circular lines are seen extending outward from the point where the spheres meet.

Astronomers discover a new type of star covered in helium burning ashes

A team of German astronomers, led by Professor Klaus Werner of the University of Tübingen, have discovered a strange new type of star covered in the by-product of helium burning. It is possible that the stars might have been formed by a rare stellar…

An illustration of a blue-white hued star in space surrounded by rings of orange and brown coloured planetary material. A small planet, blue in colour, lies just off the centre of the image.

Planetary bodies observed in habitable zone of dead star

A ring of planetary debris studded with moon-sized structures has been observed orbiting close to a white dwarf star, hinting at a nearby planet in the “habitable zone” where water and thus life could exist, according to a new study led by UCL resear…

a grid of 100 patchwork squares depicting scenes, objects and people related to astronomy and geophysics.

RAS Bicentennial Quilt - 100 Patchwork Squares

The RAS received 100 squares from all over the world and every one will be included on the patchwork side of the bicentennial quilt. Click the images below to learn more about the squares and the people who made them.

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