In the PhysicsCentral article, "Small-Scale Turbulence May Help Power Solar Explosions" the complex physics about role of turbulence in solar flares is explained using simple terms. The Glasgow-led research team spread over 13 time zones represents six languages, five solar instruments, and various areas of expertise on the Sun’s activity. With PhysicsCentral,.....(to original post)

Research led by Dr. Paulo Simoes has been featured as a research highlight in a  press release from the 15th European Solar Physics meeting, held recently in Hungary. Paulo's work uses numerical simulations to predict the behaviour of chromospheric flare emission in the infrared continuum, and understand how it can be.....(to original post)

We congratulate A&A’s Dr. Eduard Kontar. He was elected president of the European Solar Physics Division (ESPD) of the European Physical Society (EPS) during the elections at the European Solar Physics Meeting (ESPM) in Budapest last week. Dr. Eduard Kontar is also currently president of CESRA (Community of European Solar Radio.....(to original post)

We're delighted that Paul Wright has been awarded the 2017 American Astronomical Society Solar Physics Division Student Poster Prize at the 48th AAS/SPD meeting in Portland, OR. His poster was on "Microflare Heating of an Active Region Observed with NuSTAR, Hinode/XRT, and SDO/AIA”, and was based on a paper published in.....(to original post)

We're delighted that the EPS Solar Physics Division chose to award its first-ever 2017 ESPD Early Career Prize to Dr. Natasha Jeffrey "for significant contributions to the physics of solar flares and for inspiring outreach activities". Well done Natasha! The 2017 ESPD Prizes will be presented in the course of the 15th European.....(to original post)

An Institute of Physics Blue Plaque was unveiled on Tuesday 28th March 2017 for Professor Alexander Wilson MD FRSE, the first Regius Chair of Astronomy at Glasgow (1760 -1784). The ceremony was attended by the Astronomer for Scotland, Professor John C Brown OBE FRSE, University Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Anton Muscatelli, former.....(to original post)

Congratulations to A&A group's Professor Lyndsay Fletcher who has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. RSE Press Release......(to original post)

Graham Kerr with thesis "Observations and Modelling of the Chromosphere During Solar Flares" and Duncan Stackhouse with thesis "The Acceleration and Transport of Electron Populations in Solar Flares" successfully passed their vivas......(to original post)

Alliance Meeting on energetic particles in solar flares  [webpage] , contact Nic Bian regarding the meeting......(to original post)

Glasgow now hosts the CESRA (Community of European Solar Radio Astronomers) website thanks to Kenzie Nimmo and Norman Gray. The recent solar radio (and other) science highlights can be followed, discussed and shared on Twitter and Facebook......(to original post)

Congratulations to the A&A group's Professor John Brown (former Regius Professor of Astronomy and currently Astronomer Royal for Scotland) who has been awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List “for services to the promotion of astronomy and science education”......(to original post)

A fully funded PhD studentship is available in the area of Solar Radio Physics at the University of Glasgow. It is a joint UK-Franco project supported by Direction Générale de l’Armement (DGA) and Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl). The successful candidate will be based in Glasgow in the Astronomy &.....(to original post)

In the outer solar corona, the radio observations provide the unique link between near-Sun phenomena and the effects of solar activity that extend throughout the heliosphere.  'RadioSun' sponsored researchers use Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio images to study giant radio source associated with a Coronal Mass Ejection......(to original post)

"In recognition of truly outstanding research achievements associated with PhD study in the broad field of plasma physics", the Plasma Physics Division of the European Physical Society (EPS) awarded Dr Natasha Jeffrey a PhD prize for her thesis "The spatial, spectral and polarization properties of solar flare X-ray sources".....(to original post)

Peter Levens, a PhD student in the Astronomy and Astrophysics Group, has won the School of Physics and Astronomy's Thomson Prize for his second year report on Solar Tornadoes in Prominences. Well done Peter!.....(to original post)

A recent Times Higher Education article is all about the school's composer-in-residence Drew Mulholland. Times Higher Education The BBC have also interviewed him about his work with the Astrophysics group. BBC.....(to original post)

Glasgow solar physicist Dr Bian presents a general public talk for 12+ about the Sun in Irkutsk. "Rendezvous with the sun".....(to original post)

Galina Motorina, former visiting PhD student in A&A group has won a prestigious prize from the Government of St Petersburg for her work on RHESSI and SDO/AIA data  [announcement translated by Google]. This work on DEM in flares has been partially published Geomagnetism and Aeronomy and The Astrophysical Journal......(to original post)

On the 7th October 2015, bright aurora/northern lights were visible over Glasgow due to fast solar wind from a coronal hole on the Sun. A&A group member Dr Iain Hannah was able to photograph this aurora (shown below) and a time lapse of it is available here. .....(to original post)

On Friday 25th, four members of the group attended the Exploration 2015 at Glasgow Science Centre, a free night in which over 1000 members of the public came along to talk to researchers. We showed off some of the latest solar images and explained (using spectral lamps and spectrometers) why we.....(to original post)

Amateur and professional astronomers are taking part in an observation campaign of solar flares until the 27th September 2015. F-HUNTERS is a campaign targeted to amateur astronomers, organized by the dissemination team of the F-CHROMA project. The main goal is to encourage solar astrophotographers to hunt for solar flares, along with.....(to original post)

In a short video, Alec explains the importance of solar system plasmas to be discussed at STFC Introductory Solar System Plasmas School hosted by Astronomy & Astrophysics group  .....(to original post)

The School’s objective is to bring internationally leading UK scientists to instruct and inspire the incoming PhD students. It will provide them with the broad context in which their specific research will reside, and encourage interdisciplinary thinking from the outset. .....(to original post)

Thanks to Paul Wright and Duncan Stackhouse one can follow CESRA school via twitter #CESRA2015.....(to original post)

Hamish Reid and Natasha Jeffrey speak about radio school in a short UoG video.....(to original post)

BBC's Sky at Night programme this month features work by Dr Iain Hannah on small explosive releases of energy in the Sun's atmosphere observed by NASA's NuSTAR telescope. These observations are trying to catch the faint X-ray signatures of electrons being accelerated which would give clues to the physics powering these.....(to original post)

Glasgow University is hosting the 2015 CESRA radio summer school. The school is open to solar radio physicists including PhD students and early career researchers.  The school will cover the essential elements of theory, modelling and data analysis and will feature lectures and tutorials.  Students will have the opportunity to meet and.....(to original post)

Baolin Tan (China), Alexey Kuznetsov (Irkutsk, Russia) and Sergei Kuznetsov and Alexander Morgachev (Pulkovo, Russia) visit our group to work on the solar flares and radio emission from the Sun. The visits are supported by pan-European EU funded network 'RadioSun'  involving China, Czech Republic, Poland, Russia and the UK......(to original post)

The University’s observatory at Acre Rd is being refurbished over the summer – below are some photos showing the good progress that has been made. Lot's has been done since the fifth, fourth, third, second and first set of pictures. .....(to original post)

Dr Prasad Subramanian, an associate professor of Physics at IISER Pune, visited the Glasgow Astronomy Group to study eruptions on the Sun. The collaboration is associated with the renewal of an agreement between University of Glasgow and Indian Institute of Science Education and Research in Pune (IISER-Pune)......(to original post)