Astronomy in the News

This service provides research-led resources for teaching in the curriculum of Key Stages 3/4/5 Science. Every other Wednesday, a recent newsworthy story in astronomy will be presented. The resources will include Powerpoint Slides and Teacher Notes. The slides will contain an activity, whilst the notes will provide details behind the slides as well as an indicator as to which areas of the curriculum will be touched on.

On the other Wednesday’s, a shorter version called AITN Lite can be found here, with a full index of previous Lite posts found here.

You can find the bulletins from Astronomy in the News below

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Bulletin #52 – 24/05/2023 – Largest Cosmic Explosion

Bulletin #51 – 10/05/2023 – Black Hole Jets

Bulletin #50 – 26/04/2023 – JWST Highlights 3

Bulletin #49 – 18/01/2023 – JWST Highlights 2

Bulletin #48 – 14/12/2022 – JWST Highlights

Bulletin #47 – 07/12/2022 – Square Kilometre Array Construction Begins

Bulletin #46 – 23/11/2022 – Origin of Water

Bulletin #45 – 09/11/2022 – Planet-Killer Asteroid (but it’s missing Earth!)

Bulletin #44 – 12/10/2022 – Ancient Life on Mars

Bulletin #43 – 28/09/2022 – Water on an Asteroid

Bulletin #42 – 14/09/2022 – JWST is Operational: First Images

Bulletin #41 – 29/06/2022 – Brightest Quasar of the Last 9 Billion Years

Bulletin #40 – 22/06/2022 – Gaia Data Release 3

Bulletin #39 – 15/06/2022 – JWST Mirror is Damaged

Bulletin #38 – 18/05/2022 – Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

Bulletin #37 – 11/05/2022 – Prioritise Uranus for a New Space Mission

Bulletin #36 – 04/05/2022 – JWST is Fully Aligned

Bulletin #35 – 27/04/2022 – Water on Europa

Bulletin #34 – 06/04/2022 – Most Distant Star Ever Discovered

Bulletin #33 – 30/03/2022 – Nature of Black Holes

Bulletin #32 – 23/03/2022 – JWST is Fully Focused!

Bulletin #31 – 16/03/2022 – A New Planet Around the Closest Star

Bulletin #30 – 09/03/2022 – Not a Black Hole… Just a Binary

Bulletin #29 – 02/03/2022 – Habitable Planet Around a White Dwarf?

Bulletin #28 – 26/01/2022 – Giant Atomic Filaments

Bulletin #27 – 19/01/2022 – How Stars Become Black Holes

Bulletin #26 – 12/01/2022 – JWST is Launched, and Fully Deployed

Bulletin #25 – 08/12/2021 – Record Gravitational Wave Detections

Bulletin #24 – 01/12/2021 – The DART Mission Launches

Bulletin #23 – 24/11/2021 – Moon Fragment Asteroid

Bulletin #22 – 17/11/2021 – A Black Hole in a Young Stellar Cluster

Bulletin #21 – 10/11/2021 – Radio-Detected Exoplanets

Bulletin #20 – 03/11/2021 – An Extragalactic Exoplanet?

Bulletin #19 – 27/10/2021 – The Solar System after the Sun Dies

Bulletin #18 – 20/10/2021 – The Lucy Mission Launches

Bulletin #17 – 13/10/2021 – Mars Life and Jezero Crater

Bulletin #16 – 06/10/2021 – Detecting Earth as an Exoplanet

Bulletin #15 – 29/09/2021 – Invisible Galaxies in the Early Universe

Bulletin #14 – 22/09/2021 – Interior of Mars

Bulletin #13 – 15/09/2021 – Light Behind a Black Hole

Bulletin #12 – 08/09/2021 – Whole Supernova Lightcurve

Bulletin #11 – 01/09/2021 – Hycean Planets

Bulletin #10 – 25/08/2021 – High-Resolution Galaxy Images

Bulletin #09 – 21/07/2021 – Hubble Space Telescope is…Revived

Bulletin #08 – 14/07/2021 – Venus Clouds Too Dry for Life?

Bulletin #07 – 07/07/2021 – Gravitational Waves from Neutron Star – Black Hole Merger

Bulletin #06 – 30/06/2021 – First Stars in the Universe

Bulletin #05 – 23/06/2021 – Dimming of Betelgeuse

Bulletin #04 – 16/06/2021 – X-Ray map of the Galactic Centre

Bulletin #03 – 09/06/2021 – Future missions to Venus

Bulletin #02 – 02/06/2021 – Dark Matter map from the Dark Energy Survey

Bulletin #01 – 26/05/2021 – Returning a sample from Titan

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