The UCLan stand at AstroFest featured GalaxyFlyer which has been highlighted in the latest issue of Astronomy Now. The JHI’s stand featured in the April 2017 edition of Astronomy Now. Steve Ringwood, writing for Astronomy Now, says that the GalaxyFlyer is a remarkable demonstration of immensive 3-D astronomy via virtual Read More …
Year: 2017
JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL PHYSICS COVER ARTICLE!
A paper by Joe Smerdon (UCLan) and coworkers has been selected to feature as the cover of a special molecular electronics issue of Journal of Chemical Physics. Building on previous success, we decided to construct another rectifier using the same methodology. This could only be successful if our understanding of Read More …
Astronomy academics spot fire while observing Jupiter
Dr Daniel Holdsworth and Dr Mark Norris alerted emergency services to fire at Alston Hall A peaceful night of stargazing took an alarming turn for two University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) academics last night after they discovered a huge fire in a nearby property. Astronomy lecturer Dr Mark Norris and Read More …
UCLan Astrophysicist Finds That Galaxies Die of Gluttony
It was nearly a century ago, in the 1920s, that Edwin Hubble, using the then revolutionary 100-in telescope on Mount Wilson in California, discovered that most of the numerous mysterious dim fuzzy nebulae dotted around the sky were in fact what we now call galaxies: very distant, vast conglomerations of Read More …
Seven Earth-size planets identified around a star by a NASA team with JHI Astronomer
A NASA telescope reveals largest batch of Earth-size, habitable zone planets around a single star JHI Astronomer Dr. Daniel Holdsworth is included in international research team that made this discovery. NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star. Three of Read More …
Interactive Galaxy Visualisations at UCLan’s AstroFest stand wows
This year’s UCLan stand at AstroFest featured GalaxyFlyer, an interactive VR display using galaxy simulations. The result of a collaboration between Laurent Noel (UCLan Computing) and Victor Debattista (JHI), GalaxyFlyer allows the user to navigate a simulated galaxy, gaining insight into how galaxies look and how they form. The display Read More …
JHI Professor to give lectures on Golden Eagle Luxury Trains’ Artic Explorer tour
Professor Don Kurtz will be giving guest lectures, whilst travelling through Russia and Norway in search of the Aurora Borealis During the trip Don will be delivering on board lectures on a selection of astronomical subjects for Golden Eagle Luxary Trains. Professor Kurtz will be leading the guests for the Read More …
Donation to JHI to fund new Moses Holden Post-graduate Studentship
Donation to JHI to fund new Moses Holden Studentship This year we are delighted to announce the first Moses Holden Post-graduate Studentship, in memory of one of the University’s Founders in 1828, Moses Holden (1777-1864). This has been funded by a donation that has set up the Moses Holden Studentship Read More …