12 October 2020
Rarely detected star shredding event caught in unprecedented detail
... says study author Thomas Wevers, an ESO Fellow in Santiago, Chile, who was at the Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, UK, when he conducted the work. “We immediately pointed a suite of ground-based and space telescopes in that direction...
12 March 2021
Scientists find a rocky exoplanet rebuilding its atmosphere
... planet, and so it is a window onto the geology of another world,” explained team member Paul Rimmer of the University of Cambridge, UK. “A lot more work needs to be done to properly look through it, but the discovery of this window is of great...
04 February 2018
Worlds Fantastic, Worlds Familiar: A Guided Tour of the Solar System
At first glance, the contents list of this book appears to cover the planets of the solar system one by one but a second glance shows that the gas giants are missing. Instead, the author substitutes some of the better known moons of the solar system...
29 March 2018
Mapping the Heavens
... monthly sky map over Delhi for a national newspaper”. Her curiosity and talent led eventually to MIT, Cambridge (UK) and a PhD in astrophysics. Recognising that there are many books that tell the history of cosmological discoveries...
29 March 2018
Radio Astronomer
... ‘The Dish’). The author traces Bolton’s story from his birth in Sheffield, UK, via education at Trinity College, Cambridge, and his emigration to the antipodes, to his professional achievements. Towards the end, we learn of Bolton’s involvement with...
09 October 2019
This year's Physics Nobel Prize winners
... Mayor at the University of Geneva, Switzerland and Didier Queloz at the University of Geneva, Switzerland and University of Cambridge, UK. Their award is “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star.” James Peebles’ insights into...
