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Dr Joanne Pledger, an astrophysicist from Lancashire, identified the star as a red supergiant after analysing the data she had gathered over the past decade.

Durham University is a key partner of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) and helped design and build the new telescope instrument.

Professor Carlos Frenk, founder and former director of Durham’s Institute for Computational Cosmology has received the Royal Society’s Rumford Medal.