The UK Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2011) was held last week (Sunday April 17, 2011 to Thursday April 21, 2011) in Llandudno, North Wales. I wasn't at the meeting, but it sounds like it was outstanding. Listed below are links to some articles I thought were interesting:
- Herschel digs the dust on galaxies
- Tuning Into ExoPlanet Radio
- Hot jupiter shocks astronomers
- Variable stars under the gaze of STEREO
- Astronomers find 'smoking gun' of compact galaxy formation
- Interacting Sunspots Spawn Gigantic Solar Flare
- School students help astronomers study mysterious X-ray source
- X-ray outburst observed by school children
- Black plants 'could grow' on exoplanets with two suns
- Large galaxies stopped growing 7 billion years ago
- Could Low-Cost Space Missions Keep Astronomy Aiming High
- Pluto has carbon monoxide in its atmosphere
- Was the Merry Monarch's birth heralded by a supernova?
- Hottest Known Planet May Use Shock Wave to Save Atmosphere
- LOFAR-UK at the UK National Astronomy Meeting