Stunning new images from Hi-C, the highest resolution telescope to observe the solar corona, have been released. These images are approximately 5 times more detailed than the Atmospheric Imaging Array on NASA’s SDO mission, and can resolve features in the solar atmosphere down to a size of about 135 mile. Read More …
Month: July 2012
UCLan in Space – Successful Launch of Hi-C Sounding Rocket
The highest resolution telescope to observe the solar corona was launched successfully on the 11th July 2012. The High-Resolution Coronal Imager instrument, or Hi-C, flew aboard a Black Brunt sounding rocket that was launched from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The instrument flew for around 10 minutes, Read More …
UCLan Student Wins Prestigious Grant
One of our postgraduate researchers, Simon Murphy, has been offered a prestigious grant to work at the University of Porto, Portugal, for three months later this year. The project aims to develop upon the existing models for delta Scuti stars, on which there is great expertise at the Centro de Read More …
New Director joins JHI
We welcome Prof Derek Ward-Thompson who joined us on 1st July 2012 as new Director of the JHI. Derek is a world-leading researcher in the astrophysics of the formation of stars and planets. He has published extensively in high-impact journals in astronomy and astrophysics, attracting over 4000 citations to his Read More …