I went up to Birmingham to record the voiceover for the interview with Eugene Cernan, which included a sneak preview of the programme. I’m really pleased with it; the team have done a great job of cutting down nearly two hours of interview while keeping the best bits. There are a few surprising comments, and [...]
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In the fourth and final part of the guestblog from Alice Sheppard, we conclude our trip to CERN with a pictorial look round the ATLAS detector. If you’d rather start at the beginning, then part one is here, part two here and part three here. I’d like to thank Alice for assuaging somewhat my annoyance [...]
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Seven of the Galaxy Zoo team are gathered in Portsmouth today for our first science meeting. The plan is to go through all of the hard work we’ve been doing to analyise the results and see what we agree on – and what we don’t. Sadly we can’t invite the more than 100,000 people who [...]
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This is part 3 of Alice Sheppard’s trip to CERN, our first guest blog. Part 1 is here, and Part 2 here.
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The main tunnel is 100m underground, and 27km in circumference, with detectors at various intervals like beads on a bracelet. The circular tunnel lies under both France and Switzerland, so, as someone commented, sub-atomic [...] -
After what’s possibly the longest summer break in recorded history, Living Space – the podcast I do with Harriet Scott – has relaunched over at Livingspaceonline.com. It’s taken a while to get to this point partly because we were trying to control as much of the process ourselves as possible without compromising on the quality [...]
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Continuing our first set of guest blogs at Chris Lintott’s Universe, this is the second
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part of Alice’s trip around CERN. The first part is here.
The talk began with a description of the international co-operation involved, the 20 member states, and the Big Question they are investigating: “How Nature Really Works”. The lecturer described their branch [...] -
Alice Sheppard will be well known to any of you who’ve been to the Galaxy Zoo forum where she does a sterling job as moderator. Not content with putting her to work there, when I heard she was going to particle physics lab CERN in Geneva along with her cohort of trainee teachers, I insisted [...]
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There are some days that you just know are going to stand out in the memory for years to come. Yesterday, the final filming day of our trip through the US was one of those. We were at the Johnson space center in Houston and the first task was to interview none other than the [...]
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The main point of our visit to the Goddard Space Centre a day or two ago was to catch up with the team behind the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which is now less than a year from launch. Obviously we were following some more prestigious British visitors, but they were extremely nice to us anyway. It’s [...]
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Andy has an interesting take on the Gemini crisis. It’s essentially a salient reminder that it’s the government and not the STFC that’s responsible for the loss of funding. That’s true, but the thing that scares me about the Gemini decision is that the apparent lack of consultation. Instead of asking the astronomical community to [...]
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