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Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Titans of Science: Jocelyn Bell Burnell

... Cambridge. Her work not only revolutionised the field of astrophysics, but inspired one of the most famous pieces of ...

Heat generated from the nuclear fusion in the Sun

How does the sun produce photons?

... they're reabsorbed. Chris - Brian Fulton, professor of Astrophysics at the University of York, when he was on this ...

Comet Shoemaker Levy 9 collided with Jupiter in 1993

Comet water in Jupiter's atmosphere

... 2009, has now settled the issue. A team from the Bordeaux Astrophysics Laboratory in France used Herschel to observe ...

Science of the Big Bang Theory

... It's all vetted actually by a real-life professor of astrophysics at UCLA named David Saltzberg. He makes sure ...

The Origin of The Solar System

... - rotating as well? Mike - Rotation is ubiquitous in astrophysics, and the reason is conservation of angular ...

A microphone and mixing desk

Meet our panel of 'egg-cellent' experts!

... Matt Bothwell. Matt has a background in researching astrophysics, studying how galaxies evolved over cosmic time. ... as a science communicator, giving talks and workshops on astrophysics and has authored a book, 'The Invisible ...

Why does Venus have an atmosphere?

... is the cutest thing I've ever heard in terms of planetary astrophysics. Kat - And its holding some gas onto it like an ...

Artist rendering of three exoplanets

A closer look at baby exoplanets

... Bouvier at the Grenoble Institute of Planetology and Astrophysics in France asks on its website: ‘Have you ever ...

 Taken by Hinode's Solar Optical Telescope on Jan. 12, 2007, this image of the sun reveals the filamentary nature of the plasma connecting regions of different magnetic polarity. Hinode captures these very dynamic pictures of the chromosphere. The...

Pulsars, Puddles and Proto-Planetary Discs

... team led by Maria Cristina De Sanctis of the Institute of Astrophysics and Space Planetology in Rome, showed that ...

A computer generated image of an atom

Tetraquarks: new configurations of subatomic particles discovered

... in the 1940s and 1950s, when in particle colliders and in astrophysics experiments, people were discovering all these ...

What stardust is made of...

... is, of course,  Andrew Norton... Andrew - Professor of Astrophysics education at the Open University.  I always say ...

Artists impression of a black hole at the centre of a galaxy

Gerry Gilmore: What are galaxies made up of?

... And then through the 1950s, when all the nuclear astrophysics stuff was declassified, then the whole new ...

An artist's impression of a black hole

Black hole collides with a neutron star

... up for a minute. Just in case you don't have a degree in astrophysics, I asked Joris van Heijningen what exactly is a ...

The (even) bigger picture

... a whole range of missions in the European Space Agency - astrophysics missions, planetary missions, solar missions. ...

THE SUN, SOLAR FLARE

Europe’s Solar Orbiter Mission

... Dr Alexis Rouillard from the Institute for Research in Astrophysics and Planetology in Toulouse, France, the ...

A nuclear explosion

How many nukes would it take to blow up Jupiter?

... children's book covering topics like this, and many more, 'Astrophysics for Super Villains' is out July of next year. ...

Seeing The Sun in Stereo

... reach the Earth. But then I was speaking to a professor of astrophysics who said that the light we're getting out of the ...

Stars at night

Down to Earth: Spotting Skin Cancer

... But this algorithm could be applied to more than just astrophysics or, indeed, seagull spotting. The same ...

Benedict Cumberbatch

Benedict Cumberbatch gets naked

... in Neuropsychology with Stephen Hawking's specialty, in Astrophysics. And just how on earth you answer the questions ...

The Gran Telescopio at Roque de los Muchachos Observatory, La Palma, Canary Islands Date

Bigger, better telescopes

... like the early galaxies, and understand them, and to do astrophysics, and find out how they're rotating, and merging, ...

Jocelyn Bell Burnell

Jocelyn Bell Burnell: The mystery of gravitational waves

... these planets around these other suns. It's a new area of astrophysics that's absolutely booming at the moment. And I ...

 A composite image of the Crab Nebula showing the X-ray (blue), and optical (red) images superimposed. The size of the X-ray image is smaller because the higher energy X-ray emitting electrons radiate away their energy more quickly than the lower...

Part-Time Pulsars

Neil Young, Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics Not all pulsars pulse persistantly - some are ...

The star-forming region IC 348 in 13CO as displayed in 3D Slicer. The models represent a 3D contour map in p-p-v (RA-DEC-Velocity) space.

MRI Scanning the Stars

... . Professor Alyssa Goodman, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics Often, technology designed for space travel ...

artistic representation of a black hole

Black holes swarm around the Milky Way

... uninteresting X-ray sources. Dr Charles Hailey, Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University, The first ...

Uk-Japan Young Scientists Workshop

... from the UK and Japan about everything from genetics to astrophysics Uk-Japan Young Scientists Workshop ...