BLAST on the BBC
Jan 07
BLAST will be on the BBC tonight. It has an interesting story behind it and luckily the brother of the head investigator is a film maker. He followed the international science team literally around the world as they tried to map star-forming regions and to find the origins of the galaxies.
SCUBA-2 vs Plutonium
Jul 01
A radiation incident has stalled work on SCUBA2, meaning the high-tech submillimetre camera is once again delayed.
Earth and Friends in Multiple Wavelengths
Jun 25
There is a lot more to the universe than the light you and I can pick up with our eyes and brains. Although its a shame that we can't see them naturally we can use technology to reveal the wavelengths of light normally invisible to us. Visible light is only part of the electromagnetic spectrum (a very small part) and I thought it would be interesting to see some familiar objects in unfamiliar ways.
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.
Diving Deep
Aug 23
A recent BBC News article has prompted a couple of people to mention 'this thing called SCUBA' to me. The article is about the new SCUBA-2 submillimetre camera that has been built at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh (with more than a little help from Cardiff University and a couple of other places). SCUBA-2, as the name might suggest, is the successor to SCUBA which stands for Submillimetre,...
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