RoPACS in the Press

The RoPACS press articles that have been published to date are listed below in reverse chronological order

2010

• Astronomers find rosetta stone for T dwarf stars - RAS Press Release (23/11/10). Related stories can be found here (UH, UKIRT, ESO, Indiavision, Universe Today, redorbit, dnaindia, ibtimes, scientific Computing, Spaceref, Hungarian astronomy news website )
• The Coolest Brown Dwarf: A Neighbor in Space (12/08/10 - Phil Lucas)
• CAR-Astrium collaboration on developing technology for space (15/6/10 Pinfield, Frith)
• 'Superstorm' rages on exoplanet (Ignas Snellen) - BBC news article (17/03/2010)
• China award for outstanding PhD student at UH (Zenghua Zhang) - UH news article (17/03/2010)
• Uni's new planet is just 35M years young - Welwyn Hatfield Times article (24/02/10)
  Related stories can be found here (Times Higher Education article)
• Astronomers discover youngest planet orbiting a solar-type star - Telegraph article (19/02/10)
  Related stories can be found here (Daily Mail, Post Chronicle, The Money Times, Impact Lab, Examiner, Top News, Yubanet, Welwyn & Hatfield Times, Interview with Luton Radio)
• Red dwarf/red giant binary found in UK/China Collaboration - Science Daily press release (19/02/10)
  Related stories can be found here (Yubanet, St Albans Review, Herts News)
• Astronomers discover cool stars in nearby space - Herts News article (29/01/10)

2009

• New planets found around Sun-like stars (14/12/2009 Jones)
• Is brown dwarf new type of extreme "whopper"? - Astronomy Now press release (03/07/09)
• Lunar eclipse observations give insights for finding new Earths - IAC press release (10/06/09)
• EWASS hosts RoPACS midyear workshop meeting - University of Hertfordshire press release (14/04/09)

RoPACS Launch

• In search of planets around the coolest stars - Horizon News (01/02/09)
• Looking for new planets - start of the EU funded RoPACS project - Innovations Report (22/01/09)
• BBC Three Counties Radio, Live radio interview (20/01/09)
• Mercury FM interview with Simone Stuart (17/01/09)
• Astronomers in search of planets around the coolest stars - University of Hertfordshire News and Events article (16/01/09)
• Discovery of new planets - RoPACS project - Welcome Europe News (16/01/09)
• Students helped to see the stars - Welwyn & Hatfield  Review (15/01/09)
• Hertfordshire University pupils take part in astronomy project - This is Local London News (14/01/09)
• Cordis News - Searching for new planets: the EU-funded RoPACS project gets underway (14/01/09)
• Astronomers in search for planets around the coolest stars - Science Centric News (13/01/09)
• Project searches for planets around coolest stars - Red Orbit News (13/01/09)

Further News

More news on the RoPACS project can be found here.