The Universe as seen from the perspective of an astronomical researcher, presenter and writer.
It turns out that it’s hard to launch a new shiny website while traveling through four airports and three countries in the space of less than 15 hours. With apologies to my talented co-presenter, Douglas Pierce-Price from ESO, I’m going to post our latest Living Space here.
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Read More...I’ve spent most of the day running around having meetings so there’s been little blogging from me. I will write about the talk I’ve just come out of by Sean Carroll of Cosmic Variance, but it’s going to take me a while to digest my thoughts. In the meantime, I should remind you all you [...]
Read More...The star(s) of the show today have been those making up the Milky Way, the structure of which has been revealed like never before by the results of a survey conducted by the Spitzer Space Telescope. The result is currently displayed right across the exhibition hall, as you can see in the Universe Today report. [...]
Read More...Imagine being in our solar system, standing just where the Earth is now, roughly four and a half billion years ago. Around you would be the detritus of star formation, left over material forming a protoplanetary disk from which the planets are coalescing. Understanding just how this disk of dust and gas became the eight [...]
Read More...As we’ve gone through the sessions here about Astronomy and New Media (aka the internet), the example I keep returning to (apart from Galaxy Zoo) is Phoenix’s use of the internet. The way they’ve distributed images and talked to the public has been exemplary, and the most fun example of this is their use of [...]
Read More...I wrote yesterday about the somewhat surprising link that’s been discovered between the tightness of a galaxy’s spiral arms (the angle at which they uncurl) and the size of the black hole that lurks in their centre. I managed to catch up with Marc Seigar, and the interview is now up on Youtube
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The Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey (GOODS) : An Observational Legacy for Studying Galaxy Evolution
Prof Marc Dickinson
The following was written during the final plenary talk of the first day at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in St Louis. I was going to post as we went along, but the wireless connection in the meeting room [...]
I’m sitting at the back of the second press conference of the day, desperately swapping between laptops to run the Astronomy Cast Live feed, catch up with press releases from the speakers and to write this.
Currently, we’re listening to the announcement of the smallest extrasolar planet to date, a 3 Earth Mass planet orbiting a [...]
One of the most intriguing of the morning press releases is now being described by Marc Seigar from the University of Arkansas, who has been trying to weigh the supermassive black holes that lurk at the centre of galaxies. Ideally, you’d do this by measuring the speed of the gas rotating around it, but that’s [...]
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