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JHI Director Derek Ward-Thompson made Councillor of Royal Astronomical Society

May 25, 2023May 25, 2023

Professor Derek Ward-Thompson was appointed to the Council of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) this May. The RAS was established in 1820 to encourage and promote the study of astronomy, astrophysics and the solar system. Today, the RAS includes almost all professional astronomers in the country, including PhD and postgraduate Read More …

“Living With Our Star” outreach lecture

May 23, 2023May 23, 2023

Join Robert Walsh, Professor of Solar Physics, on a journey to explore our nearest star. Our Sun may appear tranquil and constant, but it is in fact a seething ball of million-degree electrified gases! Recently, the view of our closest star has been transformed due to dedicated, space-based observatories. Using Read More …

JHI astronomer attends Buckingham Palace Garden Party

May 9, 2023May 9, 2023

On the afternoon of May 3rd, JHI astronomer Dr Megan Argo attended a Garden Party at Buckingham Palace, held to celebrate the Coronation of King Charles III.  Megan received her invitation in recognition of her volunteering with Girlguiding during the 2021 Covid lockdown when she organised a programme of virtual Read More …

“Horrox”: a play about Jeremiah Horrocks at the Cambridge festival

April 6, 2023April 6, 2023

JHI Director Professor Derek Ward-Thompson recently attended a performance of a new play about Jeremiah Horrocks, simply called ‘Horrox’. The play was excellent and focussed on Jeremiah’s Cambridge connection, but it was fair to his whole life, or what we know of it. In addition, it had a parallel strand Read More …

UCLan to send out signal to E.T. : Our April fool’s day joke got people excited about Aliens!

April 6, 2023May 2, 2023

A mix of reality and fantasy from Dr Megan Argo and our JHI/UCLAN team got many people fooled! Read the whole story at UCLAN’s press release. We didn’t completely pull your leg – we really do work with NASA on projects and on the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration and Read More …

Prof Derek Ward-Thompson (JHI Director) and Simon Ebo (PhD student) attended a careers event at Westholme School.

March 30, 2023March 30, 2023

On Thursday 23rd March, Prof Derek Ward-Thompson (JHI Director) and Simon Ebo (PhD student) attended a careers event at Westholme School. The pictures show pupils at the JHI stand trying out the Virtual Reality headsets of simulations of work carried out within the JHI. Prof Ward-Thompson also gave a 20-min talk Read More …

The Venus-Jupiter conjunction on 1st March

March 2, 2023March 7, 2023

Venus and Jupiter appeared very close on the night sky giving a spectacular conjunction at the beginning of March. As Venus, Earth and Jupiter rotate around the Sun at different speeds, their relative positions change with time. As a result of this cosmic dance, Jupiter and Venus sometimes appear very Read More …

Asteroseismology: The Real Music of the Spheres

February 10, 2023May 22, 2023

Asteroseismology: The Real Music of the Spheres Professor Donald Kurtz Tuesday 14 March, 6.30-8.30pm | Darwin Lecture Theatre University of Central Lancashire | Free admission More information about the lecture and how to book places can be found here. The recording of the lecture is available online on the JHI Read More …

Congratulations to our December 2022 graduates!

December 14, 2022December 14, 2022

We are happy to congratulate our two PhD graduates and one MSc graduate, who were awarded their degrees at the ceremony on the 13th December. Dr Raeesa Parker’s PhD was on “Radio Observations of discs around young stellar objects”, under the supervision of Prof. Derek Ward-Thompson. Raeesa was very excited Read More …

JHI PhD student visited observatories in Chile

December 14, 2022December 14, 2022

Ph.D. student Alexia has recently returned from a two-month JHI-funded research trip in Chile. She spent most of her time working on her research of large-scale structures in the field of Cosmology at the Universidad de Chile, Santiago, under the supervision of Professor Luis Campusano. During her trip, she also Read More …

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