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The final published work from my PhD student Adam Batten’s excellent Thesis centred around the use of the enigmatic, and very much still unknown, Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) as probes of the nature of the galaxies they shine through.
Read MoreQuestacon is the national science and technology centre and an absolute treat to get to spend a day visiting but the questions I was asked when there were so tough! What would you have answered?
Read Morehe incredible Gaia spacecraft has been monitoring the almost imperceptible drift of the stars in our Milky Way for the last decade, allowing us to measure their exact 3D position using the powerful parallax method. Yet even these measures can be improved in time as this work by Swinburne’s Dr Chris Flynn shows.
Read MoreIn the next two decades we will search the skies, solar system and space for alien life with new techniques and technologies thousands of times more powerful than all of humanity's efforts to date. I toured the world speaking to experts in this search for alien life, as well as the kinds of life we might uncover, and of course a serious investigation into the claims that it may already be here(!)
My thanks to Audible for making possible this incredible journey. I hope you enjoy listening to what I discovered with Astronomical - Looking for Life Beyond Earth
Read MoreThis is the heart of darkness.
The gravity of the blackhole is so great it casts a ‘shadow’ 2.5 times larger than itself (as defined by its event horizon) against the glowing material swirling into its maw.
That darkness is the size of the solar system but even so 6.5 billion Sun’s worth of mass crushes up pretty small when you’re a black hole.
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