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If we are located in a region with below-average density such as the green dot, then matter would flow away from us due to stronger gravity from the surrounding denser regions, as shown by the red arrows.
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Is Earth inside a huge void? 'Sound of Big Bang' hints so

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighbouring regions of the universe, astronomers say. Their theory is a potential solution to the...
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An artist’s impression of dust and tiny grains in a protoplanetary disc surrounding a young star (left) alongside an e-MERLIN map showing the tilted disc structure around the young star DG Tauri (top right) and the HL Tau disc captured by e-MERLIN is shown overlaid on an ALMA image, revealing both the compact emission from the central region of the disc and the larger scale dust rings (bottom right).
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The birth of a solar system revealed by planet 'pebbles'

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Dr Sophia Vaughan (left), Dr Sihui Zhong (middle) and Graeme McGhee (right) are the 2024 Thesis Prize winners.
Max Planck astronomer among 2024 Thesis Prize winners
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Astronomers pulled from James Webb Space Telescope’s data to analyse a sample of 111 disc galaxies, like the ones shown here.
JWST digs into structural origins of disk galaxies
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Sir Francis Graham-Smith, 1923–2025
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Professor Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell (left) has been appointed a Companion of Honour for services to astronomy and physics and to diversity. Three other RAS Fellows including Dennis Ashton (top right) Professor Lyndsay Fletcher and Professor Raman Prinja (bottom right) were also recognised in the King's Birthday Honours.
Ex-RAS president among four Fellows in King's Birthday Honours
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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 Gold Medal winner receives 2025 Shaw Prize in Astronomy
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If we are located in a region with below-average density such as the green dot, then matter would flow away from us due to stronger gravity from the surrounding denser regions, as shown by the red arrows.
Research Highlights
Is Earth inside a huge void? 'Sound of Big Bang' hints so
An artist’s impression of dust and tiny grains in a protoplanetary disc surrounding a young star (left) alongside an e-MERLIN map showing the tilted disc structure around the young star DG Tauri (top right) and the HL Tau disc captured by e-MERLIN is shown overlaid on an ALMA image, revealing both the compact emission from the central region of the disc and the larger scale dust rings (bottom right).
Research Highlights
The birth of a solar system revealed by planet 'pebbles'
Astronomers pulled from James Webb Space Telescope’s data to analyse a sample of 111 disc galaxies, like the ones shown here.
Research Highlights
JWST digs into structural origins of disk galaxies
The final SPIRE Dark Field image map created by combining the Blue (250 micrometres), Green (350 micrometres) and Red (500 micrometres) SPIRE camera channels together, each channel stacking a total of 141 individual images on top of each other.
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'Hidden galaxies' could be smoking gun in universe riddle
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