Roger Blandford (KIPAC, Stanford University) Image credit: ESO/APEX & MSX/IPAC/NASA and A.Symes The laws of physics were long thought to be unchanged when viewed in a mirror.We have known for over sixty years that they are not.As Sakharov first explained, this asymmetry, in action during the first moments of the universe, may account for the […]

Unless they are astronauts, humans must view the Universe through the window of the Earth’s atmosphere. Although a clear sky is relatively transparent to visible light, bright astronomical objects — most noticeably the Sun — can paint the entire sky with luminosity, colour and shadow to be captured by both landscape painters and photographers. How […]

The talk will introduce the Hunting Outbursting Young Stars (HOYS) citizen science project. They work with amateur astronomers to study the formation of stars and planets. We will give a brief overview on how stars and planets are forming and discuss how the project relies almost exclusively on data taken by Amateur Astronomers. The second […]