Postcards from the Universe: Blues for the Red Planet
Dr. Paul Abel describes his telescopic views of Mars from Leicester, in the first of a series of blog posts called “Postcards from the Universe” The skies of Leicester are somewhat hazy in the early hours this morning. It’s 3am and I’m in my observatory at home drinking my 5th cup of coffee. Not for the […]
Can Black Hole Tidal Disruptions Leave Remnants?
A guest blog from Professor Andrew King on black holes and observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton. Professor Andrew King recently provided a guest blog for the Chandra X-Ray observatory website, and is reproduced with permission here. Andrew is the author of a paper that is the subject of a recent press release. Andrew’s interests include […]
Sarah Casewell on the ExoCast Podcast
The Exoplanet Podcast (ExoCast) is a regular podcast about all things exoplanetary, and this month interviewed Leicester Astronomer Dr. Sarah Casewell. ExoCast hosts Hannah Wakeford, Hugh Osborn, and Andrew Rushby chat with Dr Sarah Casewell about her work on irradiated brown dwarfs. Sarah is an Ernest Rutherford Fellow at the University of Leicester where she has […]
Advancing UK and Italian research in Gamma-Ray astrophysics
Leicester physicists invited to the home of the UK Ambassador to Italy to discuss the future of Gamma-Ray astrophysics. The School of Physics and Astronomy has a long and proud tradiation of astrophysics research in collaboration with Italian scientists stretching back over many decades. Three of our academics, Professors Paul O’Brien, Jon Lapington and Julian […]
Hunting for Planet 9
Dr. Sarah Casewell describes the hunt for the mysterious Planet 9 in this blog post for the National Space Centre, and how a citizen science project called Backyard Worlds lets anyone join the search. Is there a large planet lurking at the fringes of our Solar System awaiting discovery? Ever since Pluto’s discovery in 1930 […]
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