The JHI are pleased to announce a scientific conference to honour the life’s work of our own Don Kurtz! The conference, Understanding the roles of rotation, pulsation and chemical peculiarities in the upper main sequence, will be held in the English Lake District from 11-16th September 2016. For more information, Read More …
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Undergraduate Research Success For Simon
Congratulations to JHI second-year astrophysics student, Simon Ebo, who has been selected to present his research at a National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR) at the University of North Carolina, USA, 7-9 April 2016. The award announcement from the NCUR committee reads: “Dear Simon Ebo, Congratulations! We are pleased to Read More …
Stargazing success at UCLan
Keen astronomers not put off by rain as local stargazing event goes ahead thanks to University and Preston and District Astronomical Society. More than 120 people turned out for our Stargazing Live event on January 13th. The weather was unfavourable, but keen stargazers were not put off by the rainy Read More …
JHI Winter Lecture by Professor Allan Chapman of Oxford University commemorates 350th anniversary of the death of Jeremiah Horrocks.
The JHI winter lecture was given by Professor Allan Chapman of Wadham College, Oxford University, on Tuesday 8th December 2015, in Darwin Lecture Theatre, to an audience of almost 200 people. He took as his theme the north-country astronomers, Horrocks, Crabtree and Gascoyne. He explained to the audience how the Read More …
JHI students win runners’ up prize in University Intern Poster Competition
David Glass and Richard Rae, two current JHI Astronomy Distance Learning undergraduate students, were awarded runners-up prizes in the University Intern Poster Competition held on October 8th. JHI staff member Dr Anne Sansom supervised their project on early-type galaxies. This work has subsequently led to a telescope proposal on the Read More …
JHI astronomers view lunar eclipse
This morning’s (28 September 2015) lunar eclipse was observed by JHI astronomers, who took several pictures. The eclipse was unusual in that it coincided with the Moon being at its closest point to the Earth. Thus the Moon appears slightly larger than average to observers on Earth. This effect is Read More …
An evolutionary missing link? A modest-mass early-type galaxy hosting an oversized nuclear black hole
The central supermassive black hole of a recently discovered galaxy is far larger than should be possible, according to current theories of galactic evolution. New work, carried out by astronomers at Keele University and the University of Central Lancashire, shows that the black hole is much more massive than it Read More …
JHI students graduated today with excellent examination results
JHI students graduated on the 13th of July, with excellent examination results – most students achieving a 1st or 2:1 grade. The picture shows some of the Physics and Astrophysics students, all of whom were awarded either a 1st or a 2:1. The Mathematics students also achieved excellent grades, with Read More …
Job opportunity: Two Postdoctoral Research Positions in Solar and Heliospheric Physics – UCLan, Preston, UK
The Jeremiah Horrocks Institute for Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) is seeking to appoint two postdoctoral researchers to work within the Solar Physics Group, on the following projects: REQ001609: Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Solar Physics. This two-year position is to work with Prof Robert Read More …
JHI Director Invited to meet Russian Cosmonaut
JHI Director, Professor Derek Ward-Thompson was invited to the Science Museum in London to meet Russian Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first man in history to execute a successful space walk. (Pictured: Professor Alexei Leonov talking about his historic first space walk at the Science Museum in London.) JHI Director, Professor Read More …