Astrophysics Group News
First instrument for the JWST completed and handed over to NASA
After
more than ten years of work by over 200 engineers, the Mid InfraRed
Instrument (MIRI), a camera so sensitive it could see a candle on one of
Jupiter’s moons, has been declared ready for delivery by the European Space
Agency and NASA. The MIRI Optical System, an instrument for the James Webb
Space Telescope (JWST) that will eventually take up a position four times
further away from the Earth than the Moon. It will now be shipped to NASA’s
Goddard Space Flight Center where it will be integrated with the other three
instruments and the telescope. More...
RAS Keith Runcorn Prize for 2011 awarded to Dr David Kipping
Dr David Kipping is the 2011 recipient of the Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) Keith Runcorn Prize for the best doctoral thesis in Geophysics.
More...
Herschel sees dusty disc of crushed comets
Astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory have
studied a ring of dust around the nearby star Fomalhaut and have deduced that
it is created by the collision of thousands of comets every day. More...
Listen: Searching through the stars for new planets
Dr Giovanna Tinetti, PhD student Ingo Waldmann and Prof. Jonathan Tennyson FRS talk to Adam Smith at the Pod Academy about their work on exoplanets and NASA’s Kepler mission More...
UCL Astrophysics Group
The Astrophysics Group at UCL forms part of the Physics & Astronomy Department. We are one of the largest Astrophysics groups in the UK, comprising about 80 members of academic, research and support staff.
The research areas cover massive stars, star formation, interstellar and circumstellar processes, astrochemistry, cosmology, galaxy formation and evolution, extra-solar planets, atmospheric physics and instrumentation. An overview of the group's research can be found in the most recent Departmental Annual Review.
Our group members are also playing leadership roles in many international projects, covering a time line from the present to 2020 or so. They include the Dark Energy Survey, Euclid, the Hubble Space Telescope, JWST, SPICA, Cassini, Laplace / JUICE, EChO, LOFAR, Planck, Herschel, e-MERLIN and ALMA. In addition, we are part of UCL's Institute of Origins which promotes inter-departmental research.
Contacts:
Head of Group: Prof. Mike Barlow
Administrator: Mrs Kay Nakum (k.nakum AT ucl.ac.uk)
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