Next Astro-Chat on 29th May 2025

The next Astro-Chat hosted by Professor Andrei Zvelindovsky at the University of Lincoln, with distinguished guest Professor Don Kurtz, will be held on 29th May 2025 at 7-8pm GMT, in which Don will discuss optical telescopes, including how they work and some of the most spectacular discoveries they have made. After the talk by Don, members of the public will be able to ask questions in the live-chat.

Book a place here: https://science-views.org/2025/05/25/xmas-astro-chat-big-glass-the-giant-telescopes/

You can also catch up with previous Astro-Chats using the YouTube Playlist above!

May 27, 2025 0

New videos on comets and Saturn

Dr Phil Sutton has just released a new video about understanding the different types of comets:

Another recent video to watch discusses whether Saturn’s rings drive its seasons:

For over a thousand more explainer videos please see his channel: https://www.youtube.com/@AstroPhil2000

March 28, 2025 0

Detecting Moons Around Free-Floating Exoplanets

Senior Lecturer Phil Sutton has recently released a set of videos explaining how to detect free-floating planets. You can view all 1000+ of his other explainer videos at his YouTube site here. Enjoy!

January 30, 2025 0

Public Lecture by Professor Don Kurtz – “It’s About Time!”

Professor Don Kurtz will be giving a public lecture at the University of Lincoln entitled “It’s About Time” on Friday, 7th March 2025 at 6:00-7:40 pm, which will include an interval and Q&A.

Time: 6:00-7:40 pm 7th March 2025

Place: Newton Lecture Theatre INB0114 in the Isaac Newton building, University of Lincoln

Description: Days, Weeks, Months, Years and more: Hear about Roman Emperors, Zulu Wars, Rider Haggard, Thomas Hardy, the English time riots, and how the days of the week got their names in an amusing and informative tour of the Western calendar.

For more information and to book your place, please visit 4th Edmund Weaver Lecture in Astronomy – Distinguished Maths & Physics Public Lectures

January 29, 2025 0

Next Astro-Chat on 11th December 2024

The next Astro-Chat hosted by Professor Andrei Zvelindovsky at the University of Lincoln, with distinguished guest Professor Don Kurtz, will be held on 11th December 2024 at 7-8pm GMT, in which Don will discuss Jupiter’s moon Europa, the Europa Clipper mission, and delve into the possibility of life on Europa. After an introductory talk by Don, members of the public will be able to ask questions in the live-chat.

Book a place here: https://science-views.org/2024/11/27/xmas-astro-chat-aliens-moons/

And don’t forget to catch up with previous Astro-Chats using the YouTube Playlist above!

December 5, 2024 0

New member of staff: Katharine Johnston

Katharine Johnston joined the School of Mathematics and Physics at the University of Lincoln as a Lecturer in Astrophysics at the start of 2024.

She obtained her undergraduate and PhD degrees at the University of St Andrews, during which she spent time at National Radio Astronomy Observatory as part of a Graduate Internship and at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics as a Predoctoral Fellow. After completing her PhD in 2010, she became a Postdoctoral Fellow in (Sub)millimetre Astronomy at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg for three years, during which she spent three months as a member of the ALMA Commissioning and Science Verification Team. She then returned to the UK in 2014 as a Postdoctoral Research Assistant and later as a Research Fellow at the University of Leeds.

Katharine’s research focusses on the formation of high-mass stars using observations at infrared through radio wavelengths, with a particular interest in high-resolution observations at mm and cm wavelengths to resolve the discs and jets associated with massive stars. She also studies star formation in the Central Molecular Zone of the Milky Way.

June 25, 2024 0