I’m currently in a talk by Richard Ellis of Caltech as part of this Imperial college organised conference. He’s expected to announce the discovery of the most distant objects known. Currently he’s arguing that many stars, some of them old are in place by a redshift of 6, the most distant epoch we’ve seen in [...]
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It’s not every day you get asked to spend £250 million, but that’s what we’ll be trying to do in a debate at Science Oxford next Wednesday. I’ll be trying to persuade the audience to back my idea of how to spend an extra quarter of a billion pounds per year on UK space exploration. [...]
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I’ll be giving a free public talk at Green College in Oxford tomorrow night. It starts at 6.30, and the title is
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Who, what and when? : Progress in the BIG questions in astronomy.
You’re welcome to reserve a seat via the link above, or just come along on the night.
I’ll also be co-host of Bill Heine’s [...]