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The Royal Astronomical Society is commemorating the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory Greenwich with the launch of a special collection and booklet titled 'Band of Brothers: The entwined histories of the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, and Royal Astronomical Society’ (left). It has been put together by Dr Louise Devoy (inset), Senior Curator at the Royal Observatory Greenwich, and features a section on the first 10 Astronomers Royal who lived and worked at Greenwich, including Harold Spencer Jones an
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The Royal Astronomical Society is celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Royal Observatory Greenwich by highlighting the long standing links between the two institutions. To mark the occasion, the Society is today launching a...
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