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Our very own Dr Meg Schwamb and PhD student Sean O'Brien sending out a call on UTV for planet hunters! (timestamp: 1:13 to 6:38)
itv.com/utvprogrammes/…
5 new planet candidates discovered thanks to the help of citizen scientists!
New paper from ARC PhD student Sean O'Brien details the discovery of potential planets outside our solar system that professional astronomers didn't catch, but public volunteers working together did
#EclipseSolar2024 is happening today, but to ensure you have the best experience, make sure to follow all the safety rules.
DON'T LOOK AT THE SUN!
Doing so can cause incredible damage to your eyes.
Check out our video on how to avoid this!
#Solar Eclipse2024 #Eclipse2024 #Solar
It was an absolute honor to be asked to write a guest essay for the New York Times Opinion on the upcoming total solar eclipse. Massive thank you to Eliza Barclay for the referral. Astrophysics Research Centre @ QUB QUB - Maths&Physics #Eclipse2024 #EclipseMéxico2024
A huge congrats to ARC member Aaron Monson Dr Aaron Monson on winning the FameLab NI Final!
His 3-minute talk on the different types of stars in the night sky was out of this world! He now goes on to compete in the UK Final in June.
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New paper out from ARC PhD student Toby Toby Rodel 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🦖🪐
'Using real lightcurves we calculate the detectability of simulated transits, determining how many planets should be found by TESS. We conclude that there should be more long-period planets discovered.'
arxiv.org/pdf/2402.07800…
Tomorrow kicks off our #NISF24 events with Astronomy on Tap at Post House Malone Road! Have a drink, some good food, and enjoy a series of entertaining space talks.
Tickets are available at:
nisciencefestival.com/events/astrono…
QUB - Maths&Physics Queen's University Belfast 🎓 NI Science Festival
We are two weeks out from our first event of #NISF24 with Belfast's first Astronomy on Tap. In a break from normal science talks, we're going to the pub!
Come join us, grab some food and drink, and learn about all things space.
Tickets available from: nisciencefestival.com/events/astrono…
Did you know that today's forecast storm is named after one of our Honorary Graduates, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell?
The Northern Ireland-born astrophysicist was honoured by Queen's in 2002 and was the first person to observe and analyse #RadioPulsars .
#StormJocelyn #WomenInSTEM
A huge congrats to ARC PhD student Aisling O’Hare who has been selected for ESA's Archival Research Visitor programme!
Aisling will be spending several months visiting ESTEC in the Netherlands, researching how radiation from solar flares affects the Earth's atmosphere.
Want to learn about the deaths of the universe's most massive stars and how they create Black Holes and Neutron stars?
Check out this press release and video from ESO exploring the work of Thomas Moore, members of ARC, and international colleagues!
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Thomas Moore (Thomas Moore), a PhD student in ARC, was recently interviewed for a New Scientist article!
Moore et al. investigated the first time that repeated periodic oscillations, over many cycles, have been detected in a supernova light curve.
newscientist.com/article/239980…
Data collected from the U.S. National Science Foundation Daniel K Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST) in Hawaii, the most powerful solar telescope in the world, has provided the most detailed representations to date of the magnetic field of the so-called 'quiet' surface of the sun.
👉 iopscience.iop.org/article/10.384…
