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 […]
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 […]
This week the Wednesday Department seminar (27 Jan 2021) will be delivered by Prof. Ilya Mandel (Melbourne), at 10 am (please note the unusual time). Please find below title and abstract of his talk. If you did not receive the Teams invitation email please send me an email (er198[at]leicester.ac.uk). Title: “The promise of gravitational-wave astrophysics” […]
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 […]
This week the department seminar will be delivered by Prof. Isobel Hook (Lancaster), at usual time (3.00 pm) on Teams. Please find below title and abstract of her talk. If you did not receive the Teams invitation email please send me an email (er198[at]leicester.ac.uk). Title: Cosmology with supernovae: past, present and future Abstract: In this […]
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 […]
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 […]
Later this month, on Wednesday January 27, Dr Angeline Burrell will be presenting a virtual seminar titled “Python tutorial for space physics”. The seminar will be held over Teams at 14:00 (click here to join). Please see below for her abstract. Abstract: Python is a free and open source programming language that is very useful […]
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 […]
Tomorrow (13th Jan) the Wednesday seminar will be delivered by Prof. Judit Szulagyi (ETH, Zurich) at usual time (3pm). Please find below title and abstract of the talk. Members of the School of Physics and Astronomy who did not receive the link via email can send an email to er198[at]leicester.ac.uk to receive the link. Title: How can […]
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