News

University of Hull scientist part of major space breakthrough

A University of Hull astrophysicist has contributed to a 15-year-long research project in which scientists, using large radio telescopes to observe a collection of cosmic clocks in our Galaxy, have found evidence for gravitational waves that oscillate with periods of years to decades.

Read more

STFC Introductory Summer School in Astronomy 2023

STFC Introductory Summer School in Astronomy 2023

Read more

Request a visit from our fantastic mobile Planetarium!

You can now send a request for a visit from our mobile Planetarium team via our website!

Read more

Would Earth survive a devastating asteroid impact?

Dinosaurs didn’t know physics or have a planetary defense program. But we do By Gitanjali Poonia    Jan 31, 2022, 6:26pm GMT+1 The Netflix movie “Don’t Look Up” provided a nightmare scenario where a comet, 5 kilometers wide, collides with the Earth, wiping out everything that lives and breathes — including humans.

Read more

£30,000 Investment in New Planetarium To Boost STEM Learning In Local Schools

The University of Hull has invested £30,000 in a new mobile planetarium which will improve STEM learning in local schools and colleges.

Read more

STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowships

The Milne Centre will sponsor the nomination of one potential STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow during the upcoming fellowship round; expressions of interest in being that nominee can be emailed to Prof Brad Gibson.

Read more

Teaching school children in Thailand

Members of the Milne Centre have just returned from a week of teaching astronomy and python to school children in Thailand. Now in its second year, the ThaiPASS program sees members of the Centre spend a week in Chiang Mai, Thailand, introducing children from disadvantaged backgrounds to programming in python and astronomy in the hope of encouraging them to further study in STEM subjects at University. The week was divided into a series of lectures and practical coding sessions, where the students could put their newly-acquired knowledge to the test. This year’s team consisted of Claire Cashmore, James Keegans, Mikkel Kristensen, Richard Stancliffe and Iraj Vaezzadeh, and former Milne Centre staff member Siri Chongchitnan. Topics covered included: introductory python, how to write a forward Euler integrator, stellar nucleosynthesis, supernovae and dark matter. [More details about the ThaiPASS program]

Read more

Tim Beers research stay at the E.A. Milne centre

We are very fortunate to have Professor Tim Beers, Grace-Rupley Professor of Physics from the University of Notre Dame, Indiana, visiting the E.A. Milne centre for the next 4 months.

Read more

2x Postdoctoral Positions at the Milne Centre

Two PDRAs in Computational Stellar and Galaxy Cluster Physics are available at the E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics, University of Hull.

Read more

STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship

The E.A.Milne Centre for Astrophysics will sponsor the nomination of one potential STFC Ernest Rutherford Fellow during the upcoming fellowship round. Expressions of interest should be emailed to Prof Brad Gibson by 17 Aug 2018.

Read more