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Sami Niemi's Euclid VIS Presentation

Live from the Euclid Meeting!

May 14, 2013by msslastro Leave a comment

In this post we have a live report from Sami Niemi, Euclid Visible Imager Instrument Scientist, from the Euclid Consortium Annual Meeting – This blog post discusses briefly the Euclid […]

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Euclid, Life in Astrophysics, Space Missions
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Press Release: Herschel shows galaxies had cool beginnings

May 2, 2013by msslastro Leave a comment

Beginnings and Endings for Herschel this week: Recently we heard the news that the Herschel Observatory has run out of Helium, required to cool the telescope To celebrate the success […]

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Astrophysics Research, Herschel, Miscellaneous, Space Missions
The rainbow can be considered the “DNA-fingerprint” of the Sun. If we observe it in detail (left), we would find a large number of dark patches which reveal the presence of different chemical elements in the solar atmosphere.

DNA Fingerprinting of Galaxies

April 29, 2013by msslastro Leave a comment

These days we are inundated with “hi-tech” TV shows where science plays the leading role to solve a crime scene. One of the main revolutions in the field of criminology […]

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Astrophysics Research, Miscellaneous
Some of the telescopes at the top of Mauna Kea, including JCMT shown on the far left hand side.

Observing the heavens from the summit of Mauna Kea

April 15, 2013by msslastro 1 Comment

Observing the heavens from the summit of Mauna Kea Hello, I’m Dr. Missagh Mehdipour, a research scientist at the Mullard Space Science Lab. In this post I will tell you […]

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Astrophysics Research, Life in Astrophysics, Miscellaneous
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Teenage Galaxies

April 1, 2013by msslastro Leave a comment

Hello, I am Dr Myrto Symeonidis a postdoctoral researcher at UCL’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL), and this week I will be telling you about some of my research here at MSSL […]

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AGN, Astrophysics Research, Herschel, Space Missions
The different sources and processes resulting in long and short GRBs. Credit: NASA and A. Feild

Standby for the Universe’s Most Powerful Explosions

March 18, 2013by msslastro Leave a comment

Welcome to our first science blog post. I am Dr Samantha Oates, a postdoctoral researcher at MSSL, investigating what we can learn about Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) from their X-ray and […]

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Astrophysics Research, Gamma-ray Bursts, NASA Swift, Space Missions
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Go for Launch!

March 6, 2013by msslastro Leave a comment

Welcome to the MSSL Astrophysics Blog! In this blog we will talk about all the amazing astronomy research that happens at MSSL. MSSL is UCL’s department of Space and Climate […]

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