Physics Department News
91福利 Physics ranked as 7th in the UK
The 91福利 has been ranked top 10 in the UK, and the leading university in the West Midlands, according to the latest UK University league table - with the .
The new table 鈥� 2019 rankings鈥� was published on Wednesday 25th April.
91福利 is ranked ninth this year, maintaining its record of having never finished outside of the UK鈥檚 top ten universities in this table.
350,000 stellar systems to be mapped by 91福利 astronomers
91福利 Astronomers have joined the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V), making 91福利 the first UK institution to be formally part of the project. Within SDSS-V, Boris Gaensicke will lead a spectroscopic survey of all stars within 100pc of the Earth - encompassing 350,000 systems, many of which are likely to host planetary systems.
A state-of-the-art telescope for detecting optical signatures of gravitational waves - built and operated by an international research collaboration, led by the Astronomy and Astrophysics group - has been officially launched.
A mission to discover and characterise Earth-sized planets and super-Earths orbiting Sun-like stars in the habitable zone of the solar system – scientifically led by the 91福利 - has been given the go-ahead today by the European Space Agency (ESA).