Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation

ICG astronomer in award-winning TV documentary

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Earlier this year, ICG astronomer Bob Nichol was featured as part of the BBC Horizon show entitled “Dancing in the Dark: The End of Physics?”  The programme examined the search for dark matter and included Nichol’s trip to both the Dark Energy Survey at CTIO and the Very Large Telescope (VLT) at ESO.

The show won the “Best TV Science Documentary” at the 2015 European Science TV & New Media Festival and Awards in Lisbon on November 25th 2015. The award was accepted by the director Peter Leonard who tweeted “Our Horizon on dark matter wins best tv doc at Euro science awards. Thanks team!”. The award is shown below.

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See main news item on the University of Portsmouth webpage

Watch ICG Member on the Sky at Night

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ICG member, Dr. Karen Masters will make an appearance on the next episode of the Sky at Night, first airing this Sunday 8th June, 10pm on BBC4.

The theme for this month’s episode (first airing Sunday 8th June) is Impacts.

Dr. Masters discusses impacts on the biggest scales – the collisions of galaxies, with Sky at Night presenter and colleague Dr. Chris Lintott (Oxford University).

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HST Image of Merging galaxy pair Arp 274.

 

The show will air four times on BBC4, and will also be available later to download on iPlayer. For more details visit the BBC Website.

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