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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 …
Registration for the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting, along with the UK Solar Physics and MIST 2007 meetings, is now closed. Bringing together the UK astronomy, solar physics and solar-terrestrial communities for the first time, this meeting in Preston on the 16th to the 20th April promises to be Read More …
Registration for the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting, along with the UK Solar Physics and MIST 2007 meetings, is now open. Bringing together the UK astronomy, solar physics and solar-terrestrial communities for the first time, this meeting in Preston on the 16th to the 20th April promises to be Read More …