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Teleporting Santa
Each year in the department we have a Christmas lecture followed by a postgraduate competition where the PhD students have five minutes to demonstrate…
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Thoughts on space, technology, and everything in between.
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Chromoscope
Stuart Lowe, of Jodrell Bank, along with myself and Chris North from Cardiff University are proud to release Chromoscope: a multiwavelength sky explorer.â¦
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.Astronomy 2009
Well I can hardly believe it but the second .Astronomy conference is nearly here. Next week (Monday to Friday) 50 astronomers gather inâ¦
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If the Earth Had Rings
Someone told me about this video and I tweeted it. Many retweets later I thought I would share it on the blog too. What if the Earth had rings? This videoâ¦
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Seeing Infrared
Iâve recently become obsessed with thinking about the world in other (non-optical) wavelengths. I work with data from submillimetre detectors (approximatelyâ¦
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.Astronomy CAS Talk
Last week I gave a talk to the Cardiff Astronomical Society, I thought Iâd share it for them and anyone else that might be interested. The talk overviewed someâ¦
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Ways to End the World
A friend recently asked me how I think the world might end. It’s a good question - lots of fun too, as a scientist. There seem to be countless ways to bring…
#apocalypse
#end of the world
#nemesis
#singularity
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The Gould Belt
The Gould Belt is a vast ring of active stellar nurseries, young stars and molecuar clouds encircling our Solar System. I am part of the JCMT Gould Belt Survey…
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Carnival of Space 125
I am pleased to be hosting this weekâs quasquicentennial Carnival of Space -  a collection of the best space-related blog posts from the past week. Next Bigâ¦
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One Billion Dollars
With the recent furore over LCROSS, the current STFC funding debacle and much recent discussion of manned spaceflight, I was reminded of this wonderful imageâ¦