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...
31 January 2020
A final farewell to NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope
... Infrared Array Camera (IRAC) instrument, with science leadership based at the Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory in Cambridge, Massachusetts. View some of the amazing images showcasing some of Spitzer's greatest discoveries at jpl.nasa.gov...
