Astrophiz 29: 'Star forming galaxies' ~ Dr Angel Lopez-Sanchez, Whats Up Doc ~ Dr Ian Musgrave

Published: March 9, 2017, 6:03 a.m.

b"Our feature interview is with Dr \\xc1ngel L\\xf3pez-S\\xe1nchez, who is originally from the beautiful city of C\\xf3rdoba in Spain, and now with the Australian Astronomical Observatory and Department of Physics and Astronomy of Macquarie University, Sydney\\u201d.\\n\\nHe researches galaxies with star-formation activity, and even the features of the very massive Wolf-Rayet stars are detected sometimes.\\n\\nHe was the first Spanish astronomer to host an astronomy blog. It is fantastic, and our listers can find it easily just by googling \\u2018the lined wolf\\u2019. It comes up as number one in search results (in Spanish and in English). \\xc1ngel is passionate about outreach and amateur astronomy.\\n\\nDr Ian Musgrave in our regular feature, \\u2018What\\u2019s up Doc?\\u2019 tells us what to look for in the night sky this week using naked eye, binoculars or telescopes. This week, Jupiter and Saturn, and a chance encounter with a comet. Just google \\u2018Astroblog\\u2019 to see his fabulous weekly observing blog.\\n\\nIn the News: \\nIn the News: \\n1. \\u2018Big Data\\u2019 Updating the supercomputing that is evolving from the SKA, (the Square Kilometre Array is based in Murchison West Australia and South Africa, with headquarters at Jodrell Bank UK)\\n2. Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) hit mainstream astronomy after their original discovery using 2001 pulsar data from Parkes 'The Dish' Radio Telescope"