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Tom Davison, a postgraduate student at the Jeremiah Horrocks Institute, took this composite of of several exposures of the Moon during Monday morning’s total lunar eclipse at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma in the Canary Islands. Tom is currently working at the Isaac Newton Group of Telescopes on Read More …
Named after the Roman god of war and often appearing as a bright red point of light in the sky, the so-called red planet has always been a source of fascination for human beings. To modern planetary scientists Mars is still a curious place with many unanswered questions. Its surface features include Read More …
Date: November 26th, 2018 Location: Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCLAN Title: Black holes and spin offs Speaker: Katherine Blundell , Professor of Astrophysics, University of Oxford Abstract: The popular notion of a black hole “sucking in everything” from its surroundings only happens very close to a black hole. Far away, the pull of the black Read More …
A UK team, including Prof Derek Ward-Thompson from UCLAN, won a Better Satellite World Award for the Development in Africa with Radio Astronomy (DARA) project. DARA, a Newton Fund project led by Professor Melvin Hoare of the University of Leeds with Goonhilly as an industry partner, uses radio astronomy to develop Read More …
Brother Guy Consolmagno SJ spoke with students and took a trip to the Alston Observatory The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) had a very welcome visit from a member of the Vatican Observatory – La Specola Vaticana earlier this month. Brother Guy Consolmagno SJ, the director of the Vatican Observatory Read More …
Professor Victor Debattista teamed up with Abdul Hamid Qureshi, President of the Lancashire Council of Mosques to use UCLAN’s Alston Observatory to determine the exact date for the start of Eid, one of the two Islamic holidays celebrated worldwide each year. This collaboration has brought together Muslim tradition with astronomical Read More …
Discover the wonders of space with this series of public lectures on astronomy to celebrate UCLAN’s 190th Anniversary and 400 years since the birth of Jeremiah Horrocks. Exoplanets: Exploring the diversity of worlds in our Galaxy Monday 1 October 6:30pm-8pm Speaker: Professor Richard Nelson – Queen Mary University of Read More …
UCLan’s Lancashire Science Festival attracted around 13,000 people who engaged with the shows, workshops, exhibits and activities over three days. Among this year’s attractions at the award-winning event were Titan the Robot, a petting zoo, The Cloud Factory and the Royal Institution’s Feel The Power. Other highlights included the maths Read More …
New research into the early stages of planet formation, published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, suggests that there may be more giant planets – most at least 10 times as big as Jupiter – orbiting at large distances from their host star than we previously thought. Read More …
JHI director Derek Ward talks about the discovery of new magnetic fields in space on BBC Radio Lancashire. Listen to the interview here