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With hundreds of satellites launched every year, in-space collisions and the creation of fast-moving fragments of space debris – or ‘space junk’ – are becoming increasingly likely, threatening our continued human and technological presence in space. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) recently published its first report on the economic cost of space […]

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The United Arab Emirates had its sights set on Mars the day before it launched its second satellite ever. The resulting mission, a Mars orbiter dubbed Hope, has finished construction and is scheduled to launch this summer among a rush of spacecraft bound for the Red Planet. If all goes well, the UAE will become the fourth or fifth

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Dear All, Here is the information about our forthcoming colloquium: Title: Exotic Matter Produced in Neutron star MergersSpeaker: Veronica DexheimerAffiliation: Kent State University, USASpeaker Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sLJESP0AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=sra Abstract: Neutron stars are the most dense objects in our universe that we can directly observed. In their cores, different particles from the ones present in atomic nuclei, protons

General Invitation – Lecture titled “Exotic Matter Produced in Neutron star Mergers” Read More »

The Regional Center for Space Science and Technology Education for Western Asia in cooperation with the Arab Union for Astronomy and Space sciences, the Office of Astronomy for Development in the Arab Region and the Jordanian Astronomical Society invites you to attend lectures by Professor Anna Frebel (Department of Physics and Kavli Institute for Astrophysics

Public Invitation – lecture entitled “Chasing the signature of a single prolific r-process event in an ultra-faint dwarf galaxy “ Read More »

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