Astronomy Outreach at Southampton is led by Sadie Jones. A full list of what activities are available may be found on this web page

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Stuff that I look after are the following:

Hubble Lab a worksheet to help students measure the size and age of the Universe!

The PDF worksheet may be freely downloaded.

NB: The above Hubble Lab was adapted from the WWW pages of the Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA.

http://www.ucolick.org/~dennis/instruct/ay14/lablist.html There are other astronomy “labs” at this WWW address.

Converted into metric units by Malcolm Coe and may be downloaded here.

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My popular Talks:

Tides in the Clouds

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Tides operate at many levels, from the beach where you take your holiday, to interactions between the most massive structures in the universe. Such large scale interactions between galaxies can sometimes trigger huge waves of starbirth, producing large numbers of massive stars and their evolved products neutron stars and black holes. This talk will describe why we believe such an event took place 200 million years ago in the Small Magellanic Cloud (a satellite galaxy to the Milky Way), and how X-ray telescopes are now discovering a huge nest of neutron stars produced from those tidal interactions. Along the way we will look at the observational history of the SMC from the first drawings by John Herschel done in Cape Town, to a massive X-ray survey just completed last year

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"The Violent Universe - the search for Black Holes"

Black holes represent some of the most extreme conditions that exist anywhere in the Universe. Material falling on to a Black Hole gets heated up to 10-100 million degrees before being falling inside the Event Horizon. This talk presents the fundamental properties of Black Holes in terms that are easily understood. It also presents the overwhelming observational evidence for their existence.

Listen to my radio interview (by Xan Phillips of Original FM ) on this topic.

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Radio interviews (10 min interviews by Xan Phillips of Original FM ):

Southern African Large Telescope

Magellanic Clouds

Gravity