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The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) is playing a crucial role in the distribution of spectacular new pictures of the Sun which are now being captured by the recently-launched Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO). The images of the Sun captured by SDO are the equivalent to ten times the quality of Read More …
Solar physicists from the University of Central Lancashire exhibited at the Big Bang Exhibition in Manchester from the 11th-13th March, an event that attracted around 20,000 visitors from Lancashire and beyond. Scientists from the Jeremiah Horrocks Institute led the Living with a Star stand which concentrated on the Sun and Read More …
The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) today announced its role in a major international team that will shine new light on the Sun’s mysteries like never before. On 11th February 2010*, NASA will launch a new solar observing satellite named the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) which will study the Sun’s Read More …
Dr. Cristina C. Popescu of the Jeremiah Horrocks Institute (JHI) for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at UCLan has been awarded a £0.3M grant from the Science and Technology Facility Council (STFC) to investigate the origin of infrared emission from galaxies in the early universe. The funding will be used to help Read More …
The Jeremiah Horrocks Institute is pleased to announce the third annual Undergraduate Research School from the 14th to the 18th December 2009. We are funding up to 20 delegates (third and fourth year undergraduates in astronomy, astrophysics, physics, mathematics or computer science) to spend a week with the researchers of Read More …
The Centre for Astrophysics is delighted to welcome four new research students starting 2008 October. They come from a variety of backgrounds and institutions, studying towards doctorates or masters by research. Caroline Alexander is continuing her research in solar physics, following a successful time at University College London completing a Read More …
Jaz Pearson, a mathematics graduate of the Univeristy of Central Lancashire and now a research student within the Centre for Astrophysics, has won one of the top prizes at the 2008 National Astronomy Meeting taking place in Belfast this week. Against competition from hundreds of other research students from across Read More …
A team of scientists led by Silvia Dalla, of the Centre for Astrophysics, have discovered that 44 percent of new sunspots forming in the West of the Sun are invisible to our best telescopes. Their findings, which have just been published in the Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters journal, were obtained Read More …
In one of the most eagerly awaited decisions on the future of European Space Astronomy, the green light has been given for the development of a major space astronomy mission involving UCLan. The next generation infrared space observatory SPICA, co-proposed by a team of European and Japanese scientists including Dr. Read More …
The Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Central Lancashire is pleased to welcome Dr Silvia Dalla to our solar astrophysics group. She will also continue as Astrogrid Deputy Project Scientist and contribute to our distance learning and Masters programmes. Silvia graduated in Physics at the University of Milan and Read More …