This years National Astronomy Meeting at the Queen's University Belfast came to a close on Friday, after 4 days of talks on the latest breakthroughs in UK astronomical research.

There were so many excellent talks this year, that it was impossible to keep up blogging about them! So expect a few more blogs to appear from me over the next week.

Many press articles were released during the week, including...

• World's largest digital camera to change view of the Universe
• Witnessing the formation...