Excellent news! I’ve written before about SuperWASP’s planet search, and I’m pleased to say that they’ve just announced their second round of successes. Three new planets are announced today, detected by the small dip in their parent stars’ brightness as the planet passes in front of it. WASP-3 was discovered by the first set of [...]
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After a Sky at Night filming day earlier in the year, Patrick and I were interviewed for a site called Videojug. You can see our answers to their occasionally random questions here.
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I’ve been joking for years about the Sky at Night curse that makes everything interesting happen between filming and broadcast. We finished an excellent interview with Derek Ward Thompson and Carlos Frenk today about one, had lunch and headed back to Oxford. I then opened my email to find news of a bright comet…
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Look at this. Someone making a sensible point about science education in parliament. OK, so it’s not a politician, it’s Astronomer Royal and cosmologist Martin Rees (also known as Baron Rees of Ludlow), but still. Hopefully someone’s listening, and he’s not shunned for turning up late.
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I’ve just spotted this post on the New Scientist space blog with a list of things for astronomers to do before we die. I’ve done seven of the ten, which suggests it could do with a bit of expansion. I’d include see the Southern sky (for those of us in the North), see a daylight [...]
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It’s been a bit quiet round here, hasn’t it? I didn’t mean to disappear quite so suddenly, but I’ve been thoroughly distracted this summer. Still, I’m back now and I’ve got lots to write about, including trips to JPL, Jodrell and Birr and a guest blog exploring CERN which will be coming up later this [...]
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