I’m up in Tromso, northern Norway, filming the Northern Lights with the Sky at Night team. We need to dash out to make the most of the fleeting hours of twilight here in the Arctic circle, so I’ll write more later, but for now enjoy this picture from last night’s display. It was taken by [...]
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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. [...]
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I like the United Kingdom InfraRed Telescope (UKIRT); they do amazing work and have been doing so for 25 years. However, they’ve just released one of the most stunning data sets I’ve seen for a long time – the first release from their deep infrared survey, UKIDSS. This is the deepest and largest infrared survey [...]
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We’re just scanning for stories for the next Sky at Night news roundup, and apparently ESA think this image of hot gas in the middle of the Orion nebula (as seen in x-rays) looks ’somewhat like Santa Claus’. I can’t see it at all…
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Just a very brief update on Galaxy Zoo. We’ve reached our target of more than 30,000 users and have just upgraded the hardware behind the site to make sure we can cope with as many people as once. We’re hoping to get a couple of new features up on the site in the next 24 [...]
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At about five am this morning, two thirds of the way through my second shift on the telescope, I went outside to watch the dawn. The peak immediately behind the JCMT is called Pu’u Poliahu and I decided that would be the perfect spot to watch the Sun come up. Poliahu is the Hawai’ian snow [...]
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It’s not always easy being an astronomer whose work is based on observations in the sub-mm, even though this part of the electromagnetic spectrum (think of it as very short wave radio) is perfect for spotting the signatures of the more than 100 molecules which have been detected in space. The problems start when we [...]
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Working with Pete Lawrence has been one of the most eye-opening parts of the Sky at Night over the last couple of years. As well as being blessed with unbelievable luck with clouds, he comes up with some of the most interesting projects I’ve seen.
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We had a fantastic production meeting yesterday morning, and I’m really looking forward to the rest of the year. We also had a quick rundown of what we’ve missed in the two months without news notes, and I was generally mocked for suggesting that NASA’s announcement on dark matter yesterday was likely to be interesting.
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I think out of everything we do, I most enjoy talking about Mars and Saturn. The missions to both have brought back amazing pictures over the last few years, and it’s great that for the last program of the first 50 years of the Sky at Night, we’re going to back to Saturn. The latest [...]
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