Oxford Astrophysics

Anyone planning to be in London tomorrow? Dr Jo Barstow from Oxford Astrophysics and Francesca Day from Oxford Particle Physics will be entertaining the crowds on Southbank... from their soap boxes! Join for discussions of everything from atmospheres to atoms to antibiotics with 12 awesome female scientists.
http://soapboxscience.org/?page_id=1353

Soapbox Science 2015 London On the 30th of May 2015, 2-5pm, London’s Southbank will again be transformed into a hub of scientific learning and discussion, as some of the UK’s leading female scientists take to their soapboxes ...

New astro blog post on Hubble @ 25 from Dr Sarah Kendrew:
https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/blog/astro-blog/2015/04/28/hubble-at-25

Hubble at 25 | University of Oxford Department of Physics Hubble eXtreme Deep Field - image credit: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), and the HUDF09 Team

Don't forget the deadline for our astrophotography competition, midnight tonight! We're hoping for lots of beautiful pictures. http://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/blog/astro-blog/2014/12/18/stargazing-oxford-2015-photo-competition

Stargazing Oxford 2015 Photo Competition | University of Oxford Department of Physics Hello everyone! I'm sure you're all looking forward to the Christmas holiday, and so are we in Oxford Astrophysics. But we're also thinking ahead to the New Year and there's plenty to be excited about. Stargazing Oxford returns on the 17th of January, and with it our annual Astrophotography competit…

Stargazing Oxford returns in the New Year on 17th January. Details will be available soon, but in the mean time take advantage of some (hopefully) clear winter skies, get out your cameras, and enter our photo competition! http://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/blog/astro-blog/2014/12/18/stargazing-oxford-2015-photo-competition

Getting excited for our public Stargazing event tonight! Who's coming to join in the fun?!

Interested in doing a DPhil in Astrophysics? Come to our open day on Monday December 8th!

Want to find out about some of our latest research? New Astro Blog post: Could we detect life... on Earth? https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/blog/astro-blog/2014/09/02/could-we-detect-life-on-earth

Could we detect life... on Earth? | University of Oxford Department of Physics What might Earth look like to an alien living 10 light years away? We're assuming he or she has access to a decent space telescope, of course. A new paper led by Professor Pat Irwin examines what information about Earth's atmosphere might be recoverable from its transit spectrum, observed from 10 li…

New Astro Blog post: Rosetta and the Rubber Ducky https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/blog/astro-blog/2014/08/06/rosetta-and-the-rubber-ducky-arrival-at-comet-churyumov-gerasimenko

In a few hours, ESO be making one of the most symbolic steps towards the world's largest telescope, by blasting the top of Cerro Armazones in preparation of the E-ELT. You can watch along live here; http://new.livestream.com/ESOastronomy. Proceedings are due to start around 17:30 BST today (19th June)

Don't expect a man-made volcano though; the idea is just to fracture the rock, not take the whole top of the mountain off in one go! :)

Oxford's Aprajita Verma gave a nice overview for the BBC here; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-27902611

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Go down to Broad Street, Oxford today at 11am to see our very own Becky Smethurst, Chris Lintott, Grant Miller and Ruth Angus talking science: http://www.scienceoxford.com/live/whats-on-so/soapbox-city

Soapbox City: 1 City, 1 Box. 12 Hours, 144 Voices (including some scientists) - Science Oxford Live Science Oxford Live - family activities, adult events, shows and workshops.

The results of the Stargazing Oxford 2014 photo competition have now been released! You can see the winning entries here: https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/blog/astro-blog/2014/04/02/stargazing-oxford-2014-photography-competition-the-winners

New post on the astro blog: https://www2.physics.ox.ac.uk/blog/astro-blog/2014/03/12/the-weird-world-gj-1214b-an-update

The weird world GJ 1214b: an update | University of Oxford Department of Physics GJ 1214b orbiting its host star: Artist's impression of GJ 1214b in orbit. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Aguilar (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics))Almost two years ago, I wrote this post about the weird and wonderful super-Earth planet, GJ 1214b. Like its compatriots it doesn't have an espec...