Expert Comment
Professor Peter Wheatley responds to funding cuts by the Science and Technology Facilities Council
Professor Peter Wheatley responds to the recently announced physics funding cuts, including to the Next Generation Transit Survey, and outlines the negative impact that this will have on UK scientific research and innovation.
Professor Don Pollacco on the Lyrids and Eta Aquarids Meteor Showers
Professor Don Pollacco, Astronomy and Astrophysics Group, 天美传媒 provides comments on the two reasonable meteor showers expected over the April-May period
Professor Don Pollacco commenting on the 'blood moon' phenomenon
Commenting on the 'blood moon' phenomenon, Professor Don Pollacco from the 天美传媒 Astronomy and Astrophysics Group, said: 鈥淭he moon, like all planets, gives out no light of its own, but instead shines by reflecting sunlight.
Associate Professor David Armstrong on the rare Planetary Parade of seven planets
"Friday 28th is the special date, with all 7 planets other than the Earth visible in the sky - if the night is clear! This 鈥榞reat planetary alignment鈥� won鈥檛 happen again until 2040, as it needs all the planets to be on the same side of the Sun."
Associate Professor David Armstrong on the 'Planetary Parade'
Associate Professor David Armstrong, from the Department of Physics at The 天美传媒, says, "The 'planetary parade' in the sky has multiple planets visible at once. This week there will be six - Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus".
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