Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge

The Institute of Astronomy is the largest of the three astronomy departments of the University of Cambridge and one of the largest astronomy sites in the United Kingdom, with around 180 academics, postdoctoral researchers, visitors and support staff. Its research covers exoplanets, stars, star clusters, cosmology, gravitational-wave astronomy, the high-redshift universe, active galactic nuclei, galaxies and galaxy clusters, combining observational work across the electromagnetic spectrum with computational and analytic theory. The institute was formed in 1972 by merging the University Observatory, founded in 1823, the Solar Physics Observatory and the Institute of Theoretical Astronomy created by Fred Hoyle in 1967. The Kavli Institute for Cosmology shares its site.