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Do we live in a multiverse?

... all have independently come to this remarkable conclusion: astrophysics, string theory and quantum mechanics. Astrophysics One of the biggest goals of astrophysics is to determine whether or not our universe is ...

Total Solar eclipse 1999 in France

Stopping Starlight to See Planets

... parent star?  Ben Oppenheimer is associate curator of astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History and he ... of the planet, and then we can get into really doing the astrophysics of these objects. Ben -   So, you need to find ... that orbit it.  Ben Oppenheimer, Associate Curator of Astrophysics at the American Museum of Natural History How do ...

Parkes radio telescope viewed from the visitor's area.

Developing Radio Telescope Receivers

... detectors that would be used for cosmological or astrophysics observations from the ground or also in space.  ... than non-superconducting detectors and in a world in astrophysics where we want to be able to detect more and more ...

An image of a spiral galaxy

Aliens on the airwaves

... home. Michael Garrett, Director of Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, told Chris Smith about why radio waves can be ... a couple of quid. Michael Garrett, Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics Can we use radio to find intelligent life in ...

Artist's concept showing the Kepler spacecraft

A new Earth-like planet

... Willie Torres from the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics. Willie - Kepler is a spacecraft launched by ... know it. Willie Torres, The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics A new planet has been discovered by the Kepler ...

Four antennas of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA)

The Event Horizon Telescope project

... Haystack Observatory and Harvard Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, and he's part of an initiative called The Event ... Haystack Observatory and Harvard Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics How the world's telescopes are joining forces to ...

How the Sun Works

Brian Fulton who is a Professor of Astrophysics talks about how the sun works, how old it is and ... lighting systems. Brian Fulton who is a Professor of Astrophysics talks about how the sun works, how old it is and ...

A solar flare.

How does the sun burn in space?

... talking about. Here to help me explain is Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Manchester, Phillipa ... question, and thanks to Philippa Browning, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Manchester.   If fire ...

 A Hubble Space Telescope view of a small portion of the Orion Nebula reveals five young stars. Four of the stars are surrounded by gas and dust trapped as the stars formed, but were left in orbit about the star. These are possibly protoplanetary...

Astrobiology: What's the point?

... it's a really - well, it's a really trendy subject in astrophysics. There's a lot of grants for it and this is ... someone said to me that if it wasn't for astronomy and astrophysics, we wouldn't have Wi-Fi that we all use on the ...

Artist's impression of the James Webb Telescope

'Dead' galaxy stopped forming stars 13 billion years ago

... main tasks that we're trying to understand in contemporary astrophysics. Chris - How can you see back in time in that ... and understand exactly what their incidents are. In astrophysics, what we try to do is to understand time ...

Star trails photographed at night with a long exposure

Triple star systems could re-write the cosmic playbook

... - My name is René Oudmaijer and I'm currently the head of astrophysics here at the University of Leeds. Since about a ... Chris, because one of the main things that has come out of astrophysics in the last 10 years is the detection of ...

Colourful image of the Universe

Massive radio bursts in other galaxies

... explain exactly what they are. ‘It’s not so often in astrophysics that there’s a new phenomenon that we really ... of the sky on regular occasions. 'It’s not so often in astrophysics that there’s a new phenomena that we really ...

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Astronomy at Glasgow University

... producing very exotic materials and mirrors.  The astrophysics is being done in a certain sense and because ... upper limits on things.  So we're getting close to true astrophysics. In the astronomy group, theres' some very good ...

Why would it take so long for light to leave the Sun?

... that. The reason is that Brian Fulton, who's Professor of Astrophysics at York told me that. So I know it's right! The ...

Comet Hale-Bopp as it flies over the sky of Pazin in Istria, Croatia

How long does it take for comets to "melt"?

We put this question to Katrin Ros, a researcher in Astrophysics at Lund University, Sweden... Katrin - Comets ...

 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...

The Science of the Sun

... that understanding and then apply it to other areas of astrophysics. Ben -   So what are the things that we're ...

Photograph of a full moon, viewed from the Earth

Do we weigh less at night?

We put this to Mark McCaughrean, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Exeter. Your question is ...

This artist’s impression shows the temperate planet Ross 128 b, with its red dwarf parent star in the background. This planet, which lies only 11 light-years from Earth, was found by a team using ESO’s unique planet-hunting HARPS instrument.

Earth-like exoplanet discovered

... have published the findings in the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics, used an instrument called HARPS - short ...

The red planet

Saltwater lake located on Mars

... on Mars. A team from the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics has discovered a lake under the planet’s south ...

The distant exoplanet TrES-2b, shown here in an artist's conception, is darker than the blackest coal.

Massive Super-Earth

... likely? Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics announced this week that they have found what's ...

Distant planet

How fast is Gravity?

... statistic I heard from Brian Fulton, who was professor of Astrophysics at York, is that the light emerging from the Sun ...

One of the discovery images of the system obtained at the Keck II telescope using adaptive optics system and the NIRC2 Near-Infrared Imager. Image shows all four confirmed planets.

Family of Four Planets Questions Formation Theory

... this week Christian Marois, from the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Canada, and colleagues in the United States ...

an old style alarm clock, faded with time

Science adapting through history

... those in the various disciplines from biology to astrophysics, from mathematics to chemistry, have all had to ...

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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 ...

Colourful image of the Universe

Is the universe doughnut shaped?

... in lots of different contexts. And even in cosmology and astrophysics, it can have more than one meaning. So we have ...