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The Hidden Universe at TEDxCardiff
On Wednesday I had the great pleasure of speaking at TEDx in Cardiff. I chose to speak about multiwavelength astronomy - why it is useful and what it means.…
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Thoughts on space, technology, and everything in between.
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Mercury Setting
Mercury, the innermost planet, is currently making one of its elusive appearances in the night sky. Being so close to the Sun, and fairly small, Mercury isâ¦
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Newton and the Imaginary Colour
I was thinking about colours today - specifically which colours correspond to which wavelengths. The results are a bit weird: - Red: 750 - 620 nm - Orange:â¦
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With All the Energy of a Mosquito
Whilst reading about today’s Large Hadron Collider beam smash on the BBC News website, I spotted an odd statement about the 7 TeV (1,000,000,000,000…
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UKSA
The UK Space Agency (UKSA) launched today in Swindon. The new body, which replaces the British National Space Centre (BNSC), is being created to bolster the…
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Twitpics from Space
Whilst my thesis is being bound, I thought I’d share one of my current favourite twitter feeds with you: @Astro\Soichi. Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi is…
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Trapped in the Thesiverse
In March I will begin working at Oxford University, as a postdoctoral researcher in citizen science. The ‘post’-doctoral part of that title means that I must…
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Pluto Images Show Changing Surface
New Hubble images of Pluto have revealed that the surface of the dwarf planet changed between 2000 and 2002. Pluto has become significantly redder, and theâ¦
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Answers for Allensbank
The other week I gave a talk at Allensbank Primary School - a nearby school for children aged 4 to 11. I mainly told them about the planets and the Solarâ¦
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The Polaris Flare
In our star formation group meeting this afternoon, one object that came up was the Polaris Flare. Up until now I’ve only heard of this object in passing, but…