Archive for April, 2011
A Nomad outdoor screening – Financial Times
Posted on 29. Apr, 2011 by admin.
Financial Times A Nomad outdoor screening Financial Times Tenerife Nobel prize-winners, astronauts, astrophysicists – and a rock guitarist – will gather in the Canaries in June for a festival devoted to astronomy and space travel. The Starmus festival, marking the 50th anniversary this year of Yuri Gagarin's …
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Tivvyfest starts tomorrow! – Mid Devon Star
Posted on 29. Apr, 2011 by admin.
Tivvyfest starts tomorrow! Mid Devon Star At 9.30pm on Tuesday and Thursday next week, Tiverton and Mid Devon Astronomy Society encourage people to look up at the stars at Blundell's Prep School car park. They will also host a talk on Observing with Small Telescopes next Friday in the school ..
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28/04/11…..Learn about ‘the birth of science’ at Thame town hall – - Thame
Posted on 28. Apr, 2011 by admin.
Thame 28/04/11…..Learn about 'the birth of science' at Thame town hall – Thame He holds a first-class Honours degree and a PhD in astrophysics and has devoted his career to presenting the complex and dynamic world of astronomy to the general public. His latest work is the pioneering trilogy, The Sky's Dark Labyrinth, which blends …
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Up the tower and just mad about science – Portsmouth News
Posted on 28. Apr, 2011 by admin.
Portsmouth News Up the tower and just mad about science Portsmouth News Mr Priory was happy to play up to the 'mad scientist' image in promoting a programme celebrating Portsmouth's role as a centre of excellence for cosmology, astronomy and space technology. He said: 'There are plenty of examples on television and all …
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Herschel digs the dust – Astronomy Now Online
Posted on 25. Apr, 2011 by admin.
Astronomy Now Online Herschel digs the dust Astronomy Now Online The Herschel Space Observatory has been used to help astronomers at Cardiff, Nottingham University and Max-Planck Institute for Astrophysics to understand the amount of dust in galaxies at varying distances, it was heard at the National Astronomy … and more
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Astronomers Peer Into The Dark – RedOrbit
Posted on 21. Apr, 2011 by admin.
Astronomers Peer Into The Dark RedOrbit … his talk on Thursday 21 April at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting in Llandudno, Wales
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From the Archives: Detectives eventually got on right track to catch Sams – Birmingham Mail
Posted on 21. Apr, 2011 by admin.
From the Archives: Detectives eventually got on right track to catch Sams Birmingham Mail Night after night, he left her freezing and helpless but as the week wore on he gradually began to relax the regime and they chatted about TV, astronomy and Coronation Street. Stephanie had clearly been traumatised by the kidnap but police feared that …
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School students help astronomers study mysterious X-ray source – PhysOrg.com
Posted on 20. Apr, 2011 by admin.
PhysOrg.com School students help astronomers study mysterious X-ray source PhysOrg.com Credits: NASA/Dana Berry (PhysOrg.com) — Astronomers from Wales and the Netherlands, in collaboration with five schools, have used eight telescopes simultaneously to study the strange behaviour of an X-ray binary star system. Results were presented by … and more
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Education: Rethinking PhDs – Nature.com (subscription)
Posted on 20. Apr, 2011 by admin.
Nature.com (subscription) Education: Rethinking PhDs Nature.com (subscription) The Open University, which is headquartered in Milton Keynes, UK, now has about 40 part-time science PhD students. They work locally, conducting research at a local astronomy lab, for example, then are expected to check in every two weeks via Skype …
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New Theory of Evolution for Spiral Galaxy Arms – Science Daily (press release)
Posted on 20. Apr, 2011 by admin.
New Theory of Evolution for Spiral Galaxy Arms Science Daily (press release) ScienceDaily (Apr. 20, 2011) — A study of spiral patterns found in galaxies like our Milky Way could overturn the theory of how the spiral arm features form and evolve. The results are being presented by postgraduate student, Robert Grand, …
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