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Reinvigorated Hubble reveals most distant galaxies yet

Galaxies likely to be the most distant yet seen have been identified by two teams of UK astronomers using the recently updated Hubble Space Telescope.

Scottish astronomers out of this world

Scottish astronomers are pre-eminent in their field, according to analysis of published scientific research.

Edinburgh joins the ATLAS collaboration

Physicists from Edinburgh are to join the quest for the Higgs boson particle at CERN in Switzerland.

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