Year in Space 2014 - ABC Breakfast News TV
Alan Duffy
My round up of the year that was in space, from methane on Mars, landing on comets, hundreds of alien worlds and more. It was a massive year in space!
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NASA's Orion Spacecraft - ABC Breakfast News TV
Alan Duffy
NASA is getting back into the crewed spaceflight game and although I am huge fan of SpaceX and reckon it will be the default choice for Low Earth Orbit we still need the NASA genius to get us to Mars.
Read MoreThe Dangers of AI - ABC Breakfast News TV
Alan Duffy
A non-science chat on the couch debating issues around the world although I managed to sneak in a discussion on AI
Read MorePhilae Lander - ABC3 In the News
Alan Duffy
I got to tell a younger audience about the fantastically exciting landing of Philae on Comet 67P.
Read More"Low-mass galaxy formation and the ionizing photon budget during reionization" Duffy et al. (2014b)
Alan Duffy
The first paper from the "DRAGONS" team led by Prof Stuart Wyithe, investigating how the First Galaxies formed. Using a series of hydrodynamical simulations series known as Smaug we show that the first billion years after the Big Bang is a very exciting time, with the entire universe lit by a hidden population of small galaxies that current telescopes have yet to see. Reference: Duffy, Wyithe, Mutch, Poole 2014 MNRAS 443, 3435D.
Read MoreVirtual Universes - ABC Catalyst TV
Alan Duffy
Thanks to powerful supercomputers we can know create virtuals universes that on galaxy scales are hard to tell from reality. These then act as numerical laboratories within which we can test out new laws of physics or dark matter to see what that universe would look like.
Read MoreEarth 2.0 and Exoplanets - News.com.au
Alan Duffy
Accompanying a large online article on news.com.au about searching for alien worlds I recorded this little chat
Read MoreHiggs Boson - Al Jazeera
Alan Duffy
The two year anniversary of the Higgs Boson discovery meant I got to chat with AJ about what it meant and more importantly what the future holds!
Read MoreShrinking Planets - ABC News 24 Afternoons TV
Alan Duffy
The first of a regular space round up section.
Read More"Probing the nature of dark energy through galaxy redshift surveys with radio telescopes" Duffy (2014a)
Alan Duffy
In this paper, I analysed the ability of radio and optical (visible light) telescopes to probe the nature of Dark Energy. I showed that radio telescopes are rapidly improving in capability and although starting from a low base they will rival the best optical telescopes by the time of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). One issue is that the SKA demands such a large supercomputer that Moore's law might not get us such a machine by the time SKA is built. Reference: Duffy 2014 Annalen der Physik 526, 283D for the Special Issue "The Accelerating Universe".
Read MoreSolar Eclipses - ABC Breakfast News TV
Alan Duffy
A fun chat on the couch with Michael and Virginia discussing the upcoming solar eclipse and the safest ways to view it.
Read MoreInterview on ABC Conversations with Richard Fidler (27th February 2014)
Alan Duffy
A long (~1 hour!) chat about astronomy, the nature of the Universe, how we know what we know about dark matter and why I ended up the other side of the world from where I grew up creating baby universes inside a supercomputer.
Read MoreInterview on Triple R show Einstein A Go Go (16th February 2014)
Alan Duffy
Fun interview with the amazing team of Dr's on the Einstein a go go show, chatting about an ancient star recently discovered by an Australian telescope
Read MoreInterview on ABC Brisbane Afternoons With Matt Webber (12th February 2014)
Alan Duffy
A fun interview about the recent discovery of the oldest star, and a plug for an upcoming Science of Doctor Who show I'm involved in... (Thanks Matt!)
Read MoreThe First Astronomers (The Voice/The Age)
Alan Duffy
A wonderful article on indigenous astronomy, and my own small efforts try to both teach (and learn!) about this fascinating tradition as well as the science underpinning it during a visit to Karratha in the Pilbara region of WA.
Read MoreRosetta reaches Comet 67P - ABC Breakfast News TV
Alan Duffy
On the morning that Rosetta woke up after ten long years travelling to meet the comet I was invited to the ABC studios to chat about why this was important and what we can learn about our own past.
Read MoreInterview on ABC Melbourne Drive with Michael Veitch (10th Jan 2014)
Alan Duffy
An interview (10th Jan 2014) with ABC 774 Drive time presenter Michael Veitch ended up being a 40 min show with me taking calls from around Australia. A lot of fun with some seriously challenging questions!
Read MoreThe Laborastory - The Unluckiest Astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil
Alan Duffy
The story of the 18th century French astronomer Guillaume Le Gentil.
Read MoreInterview on 2UE Stir with Brian Carlton (13th November 2013)
Alan Duffy
A fun chat about a free-floating planet and water-rich asteroids with a very well-versed Brian Carlton breaking astronomy stories..!
Read MoreNews piece on ABC World Today With Eleanor Hallo (7th November 2013)
Alan Duffy
A phone interview about the latest research into the meteorite which caused so much damage in Chelyabinsk, Russia.
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