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In a series of experiments conducted last month, Cambridge researchers experienced weightlessness testing graphene’s application in space.

̽»¨Ö±²¥first results from the Gaia satellite, which is completing an unprecedented census of more than one billion stars in the Milky Way, are being released today to astronomers and the public.

With its very first – and last – observation, the Hitomi x-ray observatory has discovered that the gas in the Perseus cluster of galaxies is much less turbulent than expected, despite being home to NGC 1275, a highly energetic active galaxy.

Cambridge students will be loading human screams onto a smartphone that will be blasted into outer space later this year. ̽»¨Ö±²¥public are invited to submit their screams, which will be emitted while in orbit at the same time as the phone records - to test if it’s possible to capture the sound of screaming in space.

̽»¨Ö±²¥first images of an upward surge of the Sun’s gases into quiescent coronal loops have been identified by an international team of scientists. ̽»¨Ö±²¥discovery is one more step towards understanding the origins of extreme space storms, which can destroy satellite communications and damage power grids on Earth.

A team of astronomers at the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge is taking the next big step in a European-wide programme which will lead to the creation of the first three-dimensional map of more than a billion stars.

Scientists at Cambridge’s Kavli Institute are studying how the Universe developed after the Big Bang by analysing light emitted up to 13.7 billion years ago.