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On the 3rd November, we held the first of our public observing night since the end of covid restrictions, at Alston Observatory near Preston. These nights involve a talk, a planetarium show and a chance to look through our large 0.7m Moses Holden Telescope. Visitors on Wednesday were especially lucky Read More …
Speaker: Professor Silvia Dalla Tuesday 19 October 2021 Darwin Lecture Theatre/UCLAN – 6.30pm Free admission: To book your place register at EventBrite. Eruptions at the Sun eject huge clouds of magnetised gas and highly energetic particles into space. As a result, when Earth is in the way, we may experience Space Weather. Join Read More …
Calling all space fans aged 5-16 years old !! Use your artistic skills to design a space badge. From stars to planets, telescopes to extra-terrestrial life, create your design to inspire future space explorers. The winning designs will be given out to Alston Observatory visitors. Winner receives £30 Amazon voucher Read More …
Since January 2021, a group of JHI astronomers have been helping Brownies around the UK work towards their Space interest badges during lockdown. Over the last seven months they have made virtual visits to Rainbow, Brownie, Guide and Ranger groups from Portsmouth to Clackmannanshire, Caernarfonshire to Lincoln, and everywhere in Read More …
A leading astrophysicist from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has been elected to a prestigious position within the International Astronomical Union (IAU). UCLan’s Professor Cristina Popescu from the Jeremiah Horrocks Institute, School of Natural Sciences, is to lead one of the IAU’s largest divisions: ‘Divison J: Galaxies and Cosmology’. Read More …
UCLAN staff and students from the Jeremiah Horrocks Institute (JHI) observed the partial solar eclipse of 10th June at the Jeremiah Horrocks Observatory on Moor Park in Preston. The conditions were not ideal, with the sky being mostly overcast for much of the duration of the eclipse. Nevertheless, there were Read More …
The discovery of a giant, almost symmetrical arc of galaxies more than 9.2 billion light years away has thrown into question some of the basic assumptions about the Universe. Known as the Giant Arc, spanning 3.3 billion light years and located in the constellation of Boötes the Herdsman, its discovery, Read More …
A leading astrophysicist from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has joined experts from across the world to publish a seminal new book exploring star formation rates in galaxies. Professor of Astrophysics Cristina Popescu, from UCLan’s renowned Jeremiah Horrocks Institute, was approached to write a chapter for the book relating Read More …
Professor Derek Ward-Thompson, the Head of UCLan’s School of Natural Sciences and JHI Director, is part of the global Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration, who produced the first ever image of a black hole, and this new image shows how the centre of the M87 galaxy looks in polarised light Read More …
The Jeremiah Horrocks Lecture, Spring 2021 Dr Mark Norris University of Central Lancashire Date And Time Thu, April 22, 2021 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM BST Online event Please register for your free tickets via Eventbrite or email: njones1@uclan.ac.uk Tel: 01772 893310 Abstract In recent years it has become possible to study Read More …