CBBC’s Blue Peter pays a visit to the University as part of Stargazing Live
January 19, 2012
As part of the BBC Stargazing Live series this week, CBBC’s Blue Peter paid a visit to the University of Glamorgan and the Faulkes Telescope project to chat to school student Hannah Blyth about the exciting research that she carried out as part of her work experience placement last summer.
Whilst working on a Nuffield Foundation summer programme at the University of Glamorgan, coordinated by Faulkes Telescope’s Nick Howes, Hannah used the Faulkes Telescopes in Hawaii and Australia to image regions of sky in our Solar System to try and find new asteroids.
Hannah’s hard work paid off and she found over 20 asteroids, and even a comet breaking up.
Blue Peter were very keen to come and talk to Hannah and Nick about their work and help inspire the next generation of stargazers. The enthusiasm of both must have been infectious: as soon as they filmed their piece Barney, the presenter, went straight home and bought himself a telescope!
To watch the piece on BBC iPlayer, follow this link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b01b4ds4/.
To find out more about studying astronomy at the University of Glamorgan visit the astronomy pages on the website.
