Alexia Lopez and the UCLan team (Lyndsey Boardman, Derek Ward-Thompson, StJohn Crean, Michael Fernando and Russell Millhouse) celebrated at the 20th Times Higher Education awards evening – often called the ‘Oscars of higher education’ – on Thursday 28th November in Birmingham. Alexia Lopez, part-time PhD student in the Jeremiah Horrocks Read More …
Author: Dimitris Stamatellos
JHI’s SUN project receives national award for outstanding contribution to UK space activity
University of Central Lancashire’s 3D public engagement project wins prestigious Arthur C Clarke Foundation award A unique 360-degree immersive artistic presentation displaying 10 weeks in the life of our Sun has won a prestigious national award for notable and outstanding contributions to space activities in the UK. Called “SUN”, this distinctive light Read More …
Jeremiah Horrocks Winter Public Lecture: A comet at Christmas
Come to our free public talk with a Christmas theme! Book your free tickets on Eventbrite Talk abstract In the Christmas story, 3 wise men from the East follow a star which leads them to Bethlehem. For many years, people have speculated that the star may have been a comet Read More …
Professor Cristina Popescu named President of major astronomy organisation
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 …
“Space day” event at local school with astronaut Tim Peake
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 …
Sun triggers new Aurora all around UK
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 …
Autumn Jeremiah Horrocks Lecture (1st Oct): How did the Universe come to look the way it does?
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 …
Space in Schools: Careering into Space
Cosmological breakthrough shortlisted for national award
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 …
Eight-inch Cooke refractor at Jeremiah Horrocks Observatory sees first light in 21 Century
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 …