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January 2021 Digest
With 2020 now behind us, the Physics Community team would like to say a virtual “welcome to 2021,” and to share some of the stories on our School blog from the past few weeks. We very much hope that you enjoyed reading the 2020 yearbook, and that you have continued to engage with one another […]
Leicester graduate launches space career with NASA
Congratulations to Leicester PhD student Daniel Watters, a PhD student from Leicester’s Earth Observation Science Group, has been awarded a NASA Postdoctoral Program Fellowship at the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama, US. Daniel has studied at the University of Leicester since 2013. He first received an MPhys Physics with Astrophysics degree in July […]
Leicester Awaits the Launch of Webb
University of Leicester scientists and engineers are involved in a major new space telescope, the most advanced observatory every built, scheduled for launch later this year from ESA’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) or simply “Webb”, is seen as a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope, but operates primarily […]
Meet Airbus Mars Rover Engineer Abbie Hutty – National Space Centre Live Q&A
Joining the National Space Centre online for a Facebook Live Q&A tonight (January 29th) is Abbie Hutty, mechanical engineer and Locomotion Subsystem Development Manager, Sample Fetch Rover (SFR) at Airbus Space. Did you know that robots heading to Mars are built by Airbus Defence and Space, at the company’s UK facility in Stevenage, UK? Bringing […]
Meet SpaceX Demo-2 Astronauts Bob and Doug – National Space Centre Q&A
Join our National Space Centre colleagues for a LIVE Space Astronaut Q&A with SpaceX Demo-2 Astronauts Robert L. Behnken and Douglas G. Hurley, this Friday 22 January 19:00-20:00. Thanks to the team at NASA Astronauts, we are delighted to be joined online by joint Operations Commander on the first crewed flight of the SpaceX Crew […]
NASA’s Juno Mission Extended
NASA’s Juno spacecraft, currently orbiting Jupiter, has had its mission extended for the next four years. Leicester planetary scientists were delighted to receive the news that NASA has authorised a mission extension, so that Juno – which has been orbiting Jupiter since 2016 – can continue to deliver new insights into the giant planet. NASA’s […]
Photographs of the Great Jupiter-Saturn Conjunction
In December 2020, we asked members of the Physics and Astronomy community to look up and capture a chance-of-a-lifetime conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn – here are some of the photos. As we described in our December blog post, on December 21st Jupiter and Saturn appeared closer together than at any point in the previous […]
PlanetarySeminar: Magnetosphere-ionosphere Coupling at Saturn and Jupiter
Dr. Gabby Provan, a planetary researcher in the School of Physics and Astronomy, joined the MIST team (Magnetosphere, Ionosphere and Solar-Terrestrial) to discuss the latest findings from Jupiter and Saturn. Abstract: The gas giants Jupiter and Saturn are both rapid rotators, with active volcanic moons and complicated ring systems. Their magnetospheres are driven both by […]
National Space Centre Live Q&A – Astronaut Jeff Hoffman
Join the team at the National Space Centre for a LIVE Space Q&A with Jeff Hoffman, Friday 15 January, 19:15-20:15. Professor Jeff Hoffman was the first astronaut to log 1,000 hours on the Space Shuttle and is an honorary graduate and Visiting Professor at the University of Leicester’s School of Physics and Astronomy. Professor Hoffman […]
Entries Open for the Three-Minute Thesis Competition
The University of Leicester is back hosting its own 3 Minute Thesis annual competition and this year it is open to Early Career Researchers and PostDocs. 3 Minute Thesis (3MT®) is an academic competition developed by The University of Queensland (UQ), Australia. Entries will be judged on their ability to communicate research in a non-technical […]
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