The Universe as seen from the perspective of an astronomical researcher, presenter and writer.
I’m slowly bringing this blog back to life. Watch this space.
In the meantime you have a twitter feed over there…
Chris
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I want to learn how to fly (high) etc.
The kids from fame may not be your ideal scientific role models, but I’m delighted to be able to blog about the rather wonderful FameLab competition run by NESTA in association with the Cheltenham Science Festival.
I’d always been a bit scared of Famelab, which seeks new [...]
I had a very interesting evening last week chairing a discussion night at the Science Museum’s Dana Centre. The topic – the Big Bang – was ably introduced by Kate Land and Andrew Jaffe, before philosopher Roman Frigg talked, rather too provocatively for my taste, about religion and the Big Bang.
There followed a period [...]
Astronomy’s appeal is inextricably linked to the visual richness of the subject, but it’s not just images from professional observatories that take our breath away. Astrophotography with amateur telescopes is thriving like never before, as more and more people experiment with digital cameras, webcams and all the rest. We know from the Sky at Night [...]
Read More...Talks to astronomical societies are almost invariably – and rather pleasurably – followed by a trip to the pub. There, the conversation usually touches on my luck in visiting some of the world’s great observing sites. I’m still getting stick, for example, for the evening in Chile when we were on the hill next to [...]
Read More...Whoever set the Guardian’s Everyman crossword this week was obviously thinking astronomically.
1 down is ‘Astronomer sees trail rising over one constellation (7)’ which I got straight away, but 2 down – ‘Rhea spinning, orbiting close to host planet (5)’ took me most of an evening for the penny to drop.
Answers to follow when their competition [...]
The Carnival of Space is open for your reading pleasure at the astroblogger’s blog.
Roll up, roll up etc.
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If you only read one book about science in your life, then make it this one by Bad Science’s Ben Goldacre. For those who don’t know, Ben is a medical doctor who has been writing in the Guardian for years about the use and misuse of (mostly) health information in the media.
This is serious [...]
It’s (almost) Christmas, and buying presents is a nightmare.
Fortunately, here at Oxford Astrophysics we have a solution. Beautiful vintage prints of Palomar Sky Survey plates are available from Operation Skyphoto, set up to raise money to help treat Alexander Thatte, the son of two Oxford Physicists who has leukaemia. All money raised will go [...]
Read More...I wrote yesterday about waiting a few years to watch the planets around HD 8799 move, and completely missed the fact that the Hubble Space Telescope has managed to do exactly this for one planet in Formaulhaut’s dust disk.
Here’s the disk :
And here are two images of the planet, superimposed, from 2004 and 2006.
I [...]