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Cristina Popescu has been named as the Division J President of the International Astronomical Union A University of Central Lancashire astrophysicist has been named president of a world-famous astronomy organisation. Cristina Popescu, Professor of Astrophysics, has been elected President of the International Astronomical Union’s (IAU) Division J, which covers Galaxies Read More …
On Wednesday 9th October 2024 Professor Derek Ward-Thompson and Dr Simon Ebo led a ‘Space Day’ event for the Junior Pupils at nearby Westholme School in Blackburn. The pupils learnt about the Sun, the Moon and the planets of the Solar System. There was also a space-themed competition at which Professor Read More …
The Sun has been very active over the recent weeks: A week ago, on Thursday 7 October 2024 it produced the biggest flare of the current solar activity cycle of magnitude, X9.1. However, the coronal mass ejection associated to the flare only produced a minor geomagnetic storm once it hit Read More …
Tuesday 1st October, 6:30pm (refreshments from 6pm) Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCLAN, Preston Campus Prof. Arif Babul (University of Victoria, Canada) How did the Universe come to look the way it does? Human beings have been asking such questions since the dawn of civilisation. Today, by combining state-of-the-art physical models that Read More …
Free scheme for upper KS2 primary teachers. Scan the QR code below to register for the project by 1 November or register here: https://shorturl.at/ZJuLe For more information please email spaceinschools@uclan.ac.uk
PhD student Alexia Lopez’s research has been shortlisted for a prestigious Times Higher Education (THE) award – in recognition of challenging what we understand about the universe. PhD student Alexia Lopez is up against five other universities in the Research Project of the Year: STEM category, for her exciting cosmological Read More …
Professor Derek Ward-Thompson, together with Preston and District Astronomical Society members John Hooper, Nigel Telford and Martin Whelan, made the first observations since the Millenium with the eight-inch Cooke refractor at the Jeremiah Horrocks Observatory on Moor Park on Saturday 14th September 2024 during the Heritage Open Weekend. They observed the Read More …
PhD graduate David Glass (middle) with JHI Director Derek Ward-Thompson (right) and Dr Anne Sansom (left). Dr David Glass was a BSc Astronomy Distance Learning (DL) student who stayed on for post-graduate study and is the first such student to have also completed a PhD. Another successful academic year for Read More …
The Sun gave us a magnificent spectacle over the last weekend. A large active region on the solar surface erupted several times over the last week, giving rise to numerous flares and coronal mass ejections, which are large clouds of magnetised solar material that are expelled from the Sun with Read More …
JHI student Alexia Lopez gave an invited Plenary Talk at the Royal Society meeting “Challenging the standard cosmological model” that was held on 15-16 April 2024 in London. Alexia’s recent discovery of a second ultra-large structure in distant space challenges our current understanding of the universe and she was invited Read More …