For Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy
Some of the North West’s top budding physicists were put to the test in a regional competition hosted by the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) and sponsored by the Institute of Physics (IOP). The second IOP North West Undergraduate Physics Challenge was hosted by the UCLan and Royal Institute (RI) Read More …
Dr. Juntai Shen (Shanghai Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences) was awarded a prestigious Newton Advanced Fellowship for his collaborative work with Dr. Victor Debattista (the UK partner at UCLan) entitled “Disentangling the Formation of the Milky Way’s Bulge”. The Fellowship is jointly funded by the Royal Society, the Academy Read More …
Astronomy fans in Preston are celebrating after the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) unveiled a new £200,000 telescope. The highly specialised 0.7m diametre mirror Altitude-Azimuth reflecting telescope has taken pride of place at the University’s Alston Observatory. It is the largest telescope of its kind at a university in the Read More …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …