Orion and Perseus Seen by Planck
Apr 26
New images from Planck, ESA's cosmological space observatory, show star formation in Orion and Perseus. These lovely images show cold prestellar cores about to burst into life as protostars. Planck is able to show a level of detail not yet seen at these wavelengths and to map the regions in a fantastic new way. These images show radiation with wavelengths of 10 mm (red), 850 microns (green) and...
Herschel Stares into Aquila
Dec 17Herschel has done it again - releasing an incredible image filled with beauty and science. This time it shows a distant, dark cloud located a thousand light years away in the constellation Aquila, the Eagle.
Herschel and Planck Ready
May 06Herschel and Planck have a launch window confirmed: May 14th (shortly after lunchtime here in the UK). They will be taken up on board an Ariane 5 from ESA's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana. The European Space Agency's (ESA) Herschel Space Observatory has the largest single mirror ever built for a space telescope. Herschel's mission is to collect long-wavelength radiation from some of the...
Simpson et al. 2008
Jul 29
Finally my paper studying the Ophiuchus star-forming region is done and dusted and has been accepted for publication. Today it appeared on the online research paper service, astro-ph and it be published properly by the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society in (hopefully) the near future.
SCUBA-2 Installed on the JCMT
Apr 09
The much anticipated SCUBA-2 instrument has been installed on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in Hawaii. The question is how did they manage to get one very large and expensive piece of kit inside another? Here are some photos from the JAC website.
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