For Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy
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 …
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 …
PhD graduate David Glass (middle) with JHI Director Derek Ward-Thompson (right) and Dr Anne Sansom (left). Dr David Glass was a BSc Astronomy Distance Learning (DL) student who stayed on for post-graduate study and is the first such student to have also completed a PhD. Another successful academic year for Read More …
The Sun gave us a magnificent spectacle over the last weekend. A large active region on the solar surface erupted several times over the last week, giving rise to numerous flares and coronal mass ejections, which are large clouds of magnetised solar material that are expelled from the Sun with Read More …
JHI student Alexia Lopez gave an invited Plenary Talk at the Royal Society meeting “Challenging the standard cosmological model” that was held on 15-16 April 2024 in London. Alexia’s recent discovery of a second ultra-large structure in distant space challenges our current understanding of the universe and she was invited Read More …
Speaker: Ruben Sanchez-Janssen, UK Astronomy Technology Centre The Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) is the world’s most ambitious ground-based optical-infrared astronomical facility. When it achieves first light in 2028 the sensitivity and spatial resolution provided by its 39m diameter primary mirror will dwarf those of existing facilities. In this talk I Read More …
An international team of astronomers, including those from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), has uncovered strong and organized magnetic fields spiralling from the edge of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). Produced by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration and seen in polarized light for the first Read More …
Congratulations to Dr Joanne Pledger, Senior Lecturer in Astrophysics, and Ruth Spencer, Senior Lecturer in Dance, who have been successful in applying for a UK Space Agency grant from the Space for All fund, to continue their work teaching primary school physics through dance. “Space in Schools: Careering into Space” responds to the growing space industry’s Read More …
On Wednesday 6th March the JHO in Moor Park reached a new milestone. The Observatory dome opened for the first time in 25 years. Read more… After more than 6 months’ work by Contractor Brian Woodruff, the dome of the JHO is operational again. A few months ago we saw the Read More …
To start the celebrations and festivities of University Research and Knowledge Exchange (RKE) Week, students from the Jeremiah Horrocks Institute (JHI) for Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy brought out the JHI’s model of a Saturn V rocket and put it on display in the foyer of the EIC. This is a Read More …