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Professor Caroline Terquem

Meet...Caroline Terquem

We work among extraordinary people doing extraordinary things; get to know some of them by reading these quick-fire interviews.
6 October 2022
This illustration shows what exoplanet WASP-39 b could look like, based on current understanding of the planet.

JWST detects carbon dioxide in exoplanet atmosphere

NASA鈥檚 James Webb Space Telescope has captured the first definitive detection of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of a planet beyond our solar system.
25 August 2022
Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert

Professor Pierrehumbert awarded Rumford Medal

Professor Raymond Pierrehumbert has been awarded the Royal Society鈥檚 Rumford Medal 2022 for outstanding contributions in the field of physics.
24 August 2022
91探花's Modular InfraRed Molecules and Ices Sensor (MIRMIS)

Commentary: Professor Neil Bowles on Comet Interceptor

As the European Space Agency鈥檚 Comet Interceptor mission moves from design phase to implementation, Professor Neil Bowles gives an insight into what it鈥檚 like to be part of an ambitious, global initiative.
9 June 2022
Comet Interceptor

Comet chaser mission one step closer to launch

A new European Space Agency science mission, proposed by the UK, to 3D-map a comet for the first time has reached a major milestone, moving from the design phase to implementation.
8 June 2022
Uranus, left, and Neptune, right, taken by NASA Voyager2 spacecraft

Scientists explain why Uranus and Neptune are different colours

New research led by Professor Patrick Irwin from the Department of Physics at 91探花 suggests that a layer of haze that exists on both planets is behind the different hues of blue.
31 May 2022
 Setting the sensor on the Brunt Ice Shelf

Icy moons simulated in Antarctica

Scientists from the 91探花 are field-testing seismic sensors in the bitter conditions of Antarctica to simulate the solar system鈥檚 icy moons.
9 February 2022
Tim Lichtenberg

Dr Tim Lichtenberg recognised by RAS

Dr Tim Lichtenberg has been awarded the Royal Astronomical Society鈥檚 Winton Award for Early Achievement in Geophysics for his work on understanding the growth and long-term evolution of rocky planets.
14 January 2022
Artist's impression of spectra of exoplanet

Simulation accurately predicts oxygen in atmosphere of hottest known exoplanet

A team including astrophysicist Dr Mitchell Young from 91探花 University has detected the fingerprints of atomic oxygen in the atmosphere of the hottest known exoplanet, KELT-9b.
22 December 2021
Illustration of Manabe

Commentary: Pierrehumbert on Manabe and the Nobel

Having followed in his footsteps at the Princeton Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Halley Professor of Physics Raymond Pierrehumbert reflects on Syukuro Manabe鈥檚 Nobel Prize-winning work
29 November 2021
Professor Vivien Parmentier

Measuring the atmosphere 340 light-years away

Commentary: Professor Vivien Parmentier explains how the unprecedented measurement of both oxygen and carbon atoms in an exoplanet atmosphere provides clues to understanding how planetary systems form.
27 October 2021
Professor Jayne Birkby

Professor Jayne Birkby awarded Philip Leverhulme prize

Professor Jayne Birkby from the Department of Physics at 91探花 is one of five outstanding physicists to be recognised by the 2021 Philip Leverhulme Prize.
18 October 2021
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