Congratulations to our successful applicants on their great A-level results today. A good cohort will be joining our Mathematics, Physics, and Astrophysics programmes in September. We are sure that they will find this a rewarding and challanging period in their lives that will greatly enhance their future career ambitions. For Read More …
UCLan in Space – Stunning new images of the Sun from Hi-C
Stunning new images from Hi-C, the highest resolution telescope to observe the solar corona, have been released. These images are approximately 5 times more detailed than the Atmospheric Imaging Array on NASA’s SDO mission, and can resolve features in the solar atmosphere down to a size of about 135 mile. Read More …
UCLan in Space – Successful Launch of Hi-C Sounding Rocket
The highest resolution telescope to observe the solar corona was launched successfully on the 11th July 2012. The High-Resolution Coronal Imager instrument, or Hi-C, flew aboard a Black Brunt sounding rocket that was launched from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The instrument flew for around 10 minutes, Read More …
UCLan Student Wins Prestigious Grant
One of our postgraduate researchers, Simon Murphy, has been offered a prestigious grant to work at the University of Porto, Portugal, for three months later this year. The project aims to develop upon the existing models for delta Scuti stars, on which there is great expertise at the Centro de Read More …
New Director joins JHI
We welcome Prof Derek Ward-Thompson who joined us on 1st July 2012 as new Director of the JHI. Derek is a world-leading researcher in the astrophysics of the formation of stars and planets. He has published extensively in high-impact journals in astronomy and astrophysics, attracting over 4000 citations to his Read More …
JHI staff at Much Hoole for the Transit of Venus
The transit of Venus on June 4, 2012, was presented through NASA beam-back from Hawaii at the fully packed Church of St Michael and All the Angels in Much Hoole. Jeremiah Horrocks lived at Much Hoole, and may have been a lay reader at the church at the time he Read More …
UCLan Students observe the Transit of Venus
Three physics and astrophysics students studying from UCLan have observed the transit of Venus on 5-6th June 2012 from Hawaii as part of the University’s internationalisation scheme. The picture to the right was taken by the students and shows the dark disk of Venus (to the left) as it traverses Read More …
UCLan Students in Hawaii for the Transit of Venus
Three physics and astrophysics students studying at UCLan have had the opportunity to travel to Hawaii to view this year’s transit of Venus as part of the University’s internationalisation scheme. The students, Chris Rowley, Callum Slater, and Ben Miller, will spend time in Hawaii before the transit to soak up Read More …
The Transit of Venus
Transit of Venus 2012 When Venus passes in a direct line between the Earth and the Sun, it is said to transit the Sun. A transit is visible as a black dot on the face of the Sun. The size of the dot is caused by the relative distances Read More …
UCLan Professor talks at Canada’s Perimeter Institute
Professor Don Kurtz has given a public lecture on Songs of the Stars: the Real Music of the Spheres at Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics on the 2nd May 2012. The Pythagoreans 2500 years ago believed in a celestial “music of the spheres“, an idea that reverberated down the Read More …