For Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy
Moor Park Heritage Weekend was a great success. Over 200 members of the public attended the Heritage Weekend at Moor Park Observatory. The weekend of the 8-10th September, has been designated as the Moor Park Heritage weekend. Which marked the opening of public buildings for the public to visit. The Read More …
The JHI is hosting the STFC Avdanced Summer School in Solar System Plasmas during 28th August – 1st September 2017 PhD students in Solar, Magnetospheric, Ionospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics from all over the UK, with the addition of a participant from Sweden, are attending lectures and activities delivered by external Read More …
For the first time, a team of scientists have calculated the distribution of all light energy contained within the Milky Way, which will provide new insight into the make-up of our galaxy and how stars in spiral galaxies such as ours form. This research, conducted by astrophysicists at the University of Central Read More …
Keen stargazers and local astronomy enthusiasts have joined University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) staff to celebrate the grand reopening of the Moor Park Observatory on its 90th anniversary. The Observatory, which closed its doors in 2000, has undergone a £100,000 renovation and it will now be used to allow community Read More …
Scientists using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope have identified a regular pattern in the orbits of the planets in the TRAPPIST-1 system that confirmed suspected details about the orbit of its outermost and least understood planet, TRAPPIST-1h. An international team of astronomers, including a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Read More …
Guild Research Fellow Dr Dimitris Stamatellos and postdoctoral researcher Dr Alex Dunhill have been awarded 2.4 million computing hours at the DiRAC UK High Performance Computing facility to study the early phases of planet formation in young protoplanetary discs. The question about the origin of planets and life has fascinated Read More …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …