People are being invited to consider the importance of comets at a free event in Preston. The latest Jeremiah Horrocks Institute Public Lecture Series at the University of Central Lancashire […]

UCLan has commissioned an artist to create a sculpture of the artist who changed our view of the solar system. The university asked Liverpool sculptor Phil Garrett to create a […]

If E.T. is still phoning home then the University of Central Lancashire may be the one to answer after plans to install an exciting new and powerful telescope on the […]

The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has been recognised for its effort to promote Physics. The university’s Jeremiah Horrocks Institute (JHI) for Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy was awarded the Departmental […]

A Preston-based astronomer has revealed what it took to capture the historic first-ever picture of a black hole. Professor Derek Ward-Thomson shared the techniques during the annual Jeremiah Horrocks Lecture […]

This year’s Jeremiah Horrocks Winter Lecture is about three North Country astronomers: Jeremiah Horrocks, William Crabtree & William Gascoigne, Britain’s first great research astronomers. Three private individuals, fully informed of the European […]