The Astro-Obs group, researching observational astrophysics and cosmology at the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics at Newcastle University. 🌌 🔭📡
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Joined February 2023
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Excited and honoured to be giving the Caroline Herschel Prize Lecture on Thursday 20th November at the @UniofBath and online 🔭
I will be talking about all things supermassive black holes and quasars! 🌌
@RoyalAstroSoc @UniofNewcastle
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The @AstroObsNCL team will be at this year's #stemfest in Newcastle!
We'll be exploring invisible light and space with ~3000 students across 3 days! ✨
#rtcnorth
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@blackholephd presenting her poster on dust in nearby AGN with JWST ✨
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Interested in helping make science engaging and accessible to a wider audience? If so, please fill out this short survey about using sound to represent scientific data and concepts in educational shows.
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Very honoured the our project Space Investigators: Astronomy in the North East won the @UniofNewcastle Engagement and Place Award for Engaging for Cultural Benefit ✨
Thank you to all the team! 🔭
Find out more here: spaceinvestigators.com
#EngageAwards2025
This interactive exhibition in the Great North Museum: Hancock had amazing reach with children and families across the region. A brilliant and educational project shedding light on our region's contribution to the advancement in space technology 🔭⭐️ #engageawards2025
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🚀🔭 What an opportunity! @NCLMathsStats PhD student Houda Haidar has been awarded observing time on @TheJWST to study how dust behaves near supermassive black holes.
🔭 Discover this groundbreaking research ➡️ tinyurl.com/mrrjyxec
#JWST #SpaceResearch
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'🚀✨ @NCLMathsStats scientists are uncovering the mysteries of dark energy and matter with Euclid data!
Discover how this groundbreaking research is transforming our understanding of the universe.
Read more ➡️ tinyurl.com/42mn8hpe
#SpaceScience #DarkMatter #Research
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Congratulations to the nominees in the Engaging for Cultural Benefit category at this year's Engagement and Place Awards. @astro_fawcett @farrellcentre @SophieEllis_FR
Find out more 👇
ncl.ac.uk/who-we-are/engagem…
ALT 'Engaging for Cultural Benefit: Space Investigators: Astronomy in the North East,' Dr Vicky Fawcett. Featuring an adult supervising a child using an interactive astronomy exhibit.
ALT 'Engaging for Cultural Benefit' Concrete Dreams, Farell Centre. Image of several individuals viewing an exhibit titled 'Concrete Dreams' at the Farrell Centre.
ALT Engagement for Cultural Benefit - 'We All Come From Somewhere: An Exhibition of Welcome at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art' Sophie Ellis Featuring a banner with the text 'Together With Refugees' inside a heart shape.
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If you're in the North East of England, come along to the Discover Festival hosted by @UniofNewcastle on the 7th June! ⭐️
The @AstroObsNCL team will be hosting a drop-in session: Seeing the Invisible in Space 🔭
ncl.ac.uk/discover-fest/what…
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🚀✨Over 500 students,4 schools, &endless curiosity!The @ElimishaMschana CASCADE Outreach brought astronomy to rural communities in Kenya & Uganda, sparking a love for space through hands-on solar system models & fun demos🌍🌌Huge thanks @AfricaAstronomy @Big_IDIA @astronomy2024 – at Manchester, England
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Published in #MNRAS: "The Quasar Feedback Survey: zooming into the origin of radio emission with e-MERLIN", Njeri et al. This is Fig. 9: for the caption & to read the paper please visit academic.oup.com/mnras/artic… @OxfordJournals @RoyalAstroSoc
ALT The four targets with the most clearly defined jetted emission, which enable common jet properties to be derived. The top row shows the VLA 6 GHz images, where the blue contours are from the e-MERLIN natural-weighted images. The VLA 6 GHz images are represented by red contours in all panels. The middle row shows the natural-weighted e-MERLIN images and the bottom row shows the e-MERLIN tapered images. The components used for calculations are labelled in the middle row (see Section 4.3).
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📢Calling all AGN astronomers in the UK!
Registration for the National Astronomy Meeting at @durham_uni is now open!
We encourage everyone to submit an abstract to the AGN session: "Active Galactic Nuclei – from ISCO to CGM and from cosmic dawn to the present day" ✨
Registration is OPEN! 🚨
We are pleased to open participant registration for NAM2025 attendance @RoyalAstroSoc✨
#NAM2025 is committed to hosting an accessible and inclusive hybrid conference. @durham_uni looks forward to welcoming you! Register here: nam2025.astro.durham.ac.uk/p…
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🎉It's paper day!!🎉
Our latest paper explores the connection between radio spectral slopes and dust extinction in quasars using data from the uGMRT 📡
@NCRA_Outreach @AstroObsNCL
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2501.10501
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I’m so happy to have organised my first conference: DEX at @UniofNewcastle ✨🎉
Very grateful to my amazing LOC who made everything run so smoothly! @AstroObsNCL
@beththeroman @astrojocksteph @Cosmoletti @Rosedshepherd Carolyn Mill
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Trained by the best at @ROGAstronomers (thanks to Jake & Julienne) and all ready for next week’s show! 😊 #astronomy #planetarium #greenwhich
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I've enjoyed talking to various schools with @imascientist as we begin #WorldSpaceWeek ✨
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Had a great time talking to over 13,000 young people about black holes at today's #STEMFest in space! 🔭
🌍✨ It’s World Space Week! 🚀 We can’t wait to dive into all things #Space next week at #STEMFest! Join us in the Space Zone, where we’ll be exploring the universe with some amazing Space companies! 🌌 #WorldSpaceWeek #STEM #STEMEducation
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The James Webb Space Telescope has unveiled a hidden veil of dust near a supermassive #blackhole! 🌌🔭
Learn how researchers from @UniofNewcastle are using these groundbreaking observations to unlock new insights into galactic evolution ➡️ bit.ly/3Tjatbu
#JWST
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Excited to be presenting our Space Investigators project at #InteractPhysics24 with @vibhagaddi 🚀
@Sage_NCL @AstroObsNCL @UniofNewcastle
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Last week we had the bittersweet task of taking down the Space Investigators exhibition at the @GNM_Hancock. The exhibition ran for 5 months, with thousands of visitors coming to learn about astronomy in the North East ✨
