The Jeremiah Horrocks Institute is pleased to announce the third annual Undergraduate Research School from the 14th to the 18th December 2009. We are funding up to 20 delegates (third and fourth year undergraduates in astronomy, astrophysics, physics, mathematics or computer science) to spend a week with the researchers of Read More …
Year: 2008
New students 2008
The Centre for Astrophysics is delighted to welcome four new research students starting 2008 October. They come from a variety of backgrounds and institutions, studying towards doctorates or masters by research. Caroline Alexander is continuing her research in solar physics, following a successful time at University College London completing a Read More …
Lancashire astrophysics students win National Astronomy prizes
Jaz Pearson, a mathematics graduate of the Univeristy of Central Lancashire and now a research student within the Centre for Astrophysics, has won one of the top prizes at the 2008 National Astronomy Meeting taking place in Belfast this week. Against competition from hundreds of other research students from across Read More …
Invisible sunspots uncovered
A team of scientists led by Silvia Dalla, of the Centre for Astrophysics, have discovered that 44 percent of new sunspots forming in the West of the Sun are invisible to our best telescopes. Their findings, which have just been published in the Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters journal, were obtained Read More …