News piece on ABC PM With David Mark (29th October 2013)
Alan Duffy
Interview about the UN efforts to combat the threat of asteroid
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Stephen Hawking - Al Jazeera News TV
Alan Duffy
A great opportunity to chat about my hero, Prof Stephen Hawking, with Al Jazeera.
Read MoreInspire Science Career Carousel
Alan Duffy
I was honoured to be given the chance to tell the school my life and what lessons I've learnt from working in science and how they might be able to follow. And of course I mention the SKA!
Read MorePilbara Schools Tour
Alan Duffy
The Pilbara is big, isolated and gorgeous. It's also a beautiful place to view the stars from and is filled with curious school kids who attend my talks on indigenous astronomy and dark matter. I also got to explain just what it is I do as an astronomer and how they could get into science too.
Read MoreScience of Doctor Who with the Splendid Chaps
Alan Duffy
I got to indulge my geek side with the rest of the awesome panel on the Splendid Chaps' podcast discussing the Science of Doctor Who. Little did I know this would lead to a BBC supported national tour with the RiAus' Science of Doctor Who Live.
Read MoreVoyager 1 Crosses The Final Frontier (The Age/Brisbane Times/Sydney Morning Herald)
Alan Duffy
An interview for The Age the success of NASA's Voyager 1 in leaving the Solar System. This was an extremely tight lead time, a fun process to beat the deadline, and was used for other newspapers around Australia as well as The Age (e.g. Brisbane Times, Sydney Morning Herald).
Read MoreAustralia's guide to the galaxy | Australia Unlimited 05/09/13
Alan Duffy
A very flattering feature on the excellent website, Australia Unlimited, that showcases breakthrough Australian talent - my co-interviewees in the other sections are impressive to say the least!
Read MoreLost in Space (The Age/Canberra Times/Newcastle Herald)
Alan Duffy
The last article from the Are We Alone night (with Q&A video) focussing on rogue planets that are flung from their orbits due to other planets/stars and which may yet host life... This feature was in The Age but syndication meant it appeared in several other national papers (Canberra Times as well as the Newcastle Herald).
Read MoreHabitable Worlds at Science at the Edge
Alan Duffy
I spoke at Fed Square for The Age's Science at the Edge event discussing the search for habitable worlds as part of the search for life with three other scientists.
Read MoreMt Burnett Observatory Science Day
Alan Duffy
I spent a fun day in the gorgeous Dandenong ranges East of Melbourne chatting to the schools there as part of the Mt Burnett Observatory Science Day. Hundreds of pupils attended a day-long series of talks at the Observatory (where I got to show off the helioscope to view the Sun in H-alpha) and then I headed to Emerald High School to speak there about Australian astronomy.
Read MoreVictorian Fresh Science - Finals
Alan Duffy
It was an honour to make it all the way to the State Finals for the national Fresh Science competition to find great science in the country and learn how to present it to the general public.
Read MoreTelescopes in Schools
Alan Duffy
I was part of an amazing initiative by Jacinta Lee Den Besten to get astronomy as part of schools curriculum across the State. Known as Telescopes in Schools a dozen quality telescopes have been housed in schools that then run regular evening night sky tours. I swung round a few schools to chat about what you can see (and what you can't like Dark Matter).
Read MoreLone Rangers (The Age/Brisbane Times/Sydney Morning Herald)
Alan Duffy
My continuing interviews with Peter Spinks now on rogue exoplanets, which came up in our succesful Are We Alone night in Federation Square, Melbourne. This was originally printed in The Age (but thanks to syndication appeared in the Brisbane Times and the Sydney Morning Herald!)
Read MoreMysterious Worlds (The Age/Brisbane Times/Sydney Morning Herald)
Alan Duffy
My first interview with Peter Spinks on the search for exoplanets, features a plug for the Are We Alone night in Federation Square, Melbourne. This was originally printed in The Age (thanks to syndication also appeared in Brisbane Times and the Sydney Morning Herald).
Read More"Giant Radio Galaxies: I. Intergalactic Barometers" Malarecki et al. (2013)
Alan Duffy
In this paper, we present a fascinating technique using the outbursts of supermassive blackholes as barometers to measure the pressure of the gas around the galaxies, as the outbursts inflate 'bubbles' of ionised gas. These pressures were then compared with the hydrodynamical simulations and found to be significantly rarer, over-pressurised regions than normal. Reference: Malarecki, Staveley-Smith, Saripalli, Subrahmanyan, Jones, Duffy, Rioja 2013 MNRAS 432 200M.
Read MoreScience Impro at Adelaide Fringe
Alan Duffy
Can science be taught through comedy? I headed to the Adelaide Fringe to test the theory out. I will never do stand up again but yes particle physics lessons were remembered by the audience later that evening which was cool
Read More"The impact of baryons on the spins and shapes of dark matter haloes" Bryan et al. (2013)
Alan Duffy
In this paper, Sarah and I started investigating the shape and spin properties of Dark Matter haloes just after I left Jodrell Bank. This then increased in scope when she started to consider the actions of the baryons (as featured in Duffy et al 2010) in changing these key properties of the collapsed Dark Matter structures. This work showed that the baryons strongly influence the halo, making it more spherical and rotating faster than the Dark Matter only predictions. This is a key result for Gravitational lensing and X-ray temperature mass estimates. Reference: Bryan, Kay, Duffy, Schaye, Dalla Vecchia, Booth 2013 MNRAS 429 3316B.
Read MoreDaily Mail 31/12/12
Alan Duffy
I made it all the way to UK when the Daily Mail picked up my research for the new surveys using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder... known as WALLABY and DINGO. Great pun leading this... "Forget Skippy: WALLABY and DINGO to find 700k galaxies". Also the comments at the end are fun too.
Read MoreGuardian Online 30/12/12
Alan Duffy
A feature by the always superb Guardian newspaper on my work predicting the performance of the upcoming Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder telescope.
Read MoreReach For The Heavens (The Age)
Alan Duffy
An extended interview in The Age on the possibilities of finding galaxies with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder telescope.
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