For Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy
Nuffield Intern Peter Tipping, who spent his summer working at the Jeremiah Horrocks Institute in the galaxy dynamics group of Victor Debattista is participating in the National Science and Engineering Week in London. Peter’s project involved using N-body simulations to learn about the X-shaped structure of the Milky Way’s bulge. Read More …
Robert Walsh, Caroline Alexander and Stéphane Régnier (UCLan) have published a press release for the NAM 2013 meeting in St Andrews on the new results obtained from the Hi-C mission (see NAM 2013 press release and UCLan News) Using an innovative new camera on board a sounding rocket, an international Read More …
Lurking at the centres of most galaxies are black holes that can weigh anywhere from one million to one billion times as much as the Sun. New research, published today in the Astrophysical Journal, shows that these black holes are growing at much larger rates than had previously been thought Read More …
Astronomers from the Jeremiah Horrocks Institute of the University of Central Lancashire are again participating at this year’s AstroFest, taking place February 8 & 9th at Kensington Town Hall. Our very own Brad Gibson will be presenting a talk in the Astrofest Conference at 10:35am on Saturday 9th February, entitled Read More …
The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) in collaboration with NASA, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and other partners* have captured the highest resolution images ever achieved of the Sun’s outer atmosphere (corona), the results of which are outlined this week in the journal Nature. NASA’s High Resolution Coronal Imager, or Read More …
An international team of astronomers, led by academics from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), has found the largest known structure in the universe. The large quasar group (LQG) is so large that it would take a vehicle travelling at the speed of light some 4 billion years to cross Read More …
The inaugural call for access to the UK’s High Performance Computing (HPC) facility, administered by STFC’s Distributed Research utilising Advanced Computing (DiRAC) has resulted in unprecedented success for UCLan. The Principal Investigator for the Galactic Archaeology programme, Professor Brad Gibson, was thrilled by the award 7 million core hours to Read More …
Wednesday, 9th January from 19:30 to 22:00 The Jeremiah Horrocks Institute of the University of Central Lancashire is pleased to participate in Stargazing Live by opening up Alston Observatory on Wednesday, 9th January from 19:30 to 22:00. As part of BBC Stargazing LIVE, we are offering this free event. Come Read More …