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Astro-Obs Newcastle 🔭
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The Astro-Obs group, researching observational astrophysics and cosmology at the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics at Newcastle University. 🌌 🔭📡
New paper by PhD student Devang Liya 🎉
This study demonstrates the power of JWST photometry to constrain the SEDs of AGN 📈

Read the paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2510.26884
November 3, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Massive congratulations to @rosedshepherd.bsky.social for winning the #NAM2025Durham 3 minute thesis competition!! 🎉🎉
July 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
@bethmg.bsky.social with their poster on multi-scale and multi-tracer 1-point statistics 📊
July 10, 2025 at 10:09 AM
Check out the amazing space art by Houda Haidar! 🎨✨
July 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Steph Campbell talking about emission line contamination in JWST imaging of nearby Seyferts 🔭
July 10, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Houda Haidar talking about JWST imaging of extended dust in nearby AGN 🌌
July 10, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Devang Liya presenting his work on SED fitting of AGN with JWST 📈
July 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Next up we have @astrosarah.bsky.social talking about exploring circumnuclear dust in nearby AGN with JWST ⬡
July 10, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Lots of @newcastleuni.bsky.social representation at @nam25-durham.bsky.social this week! ✨
First up, @astrofawcett.bsky.social talking about evidence for a blow-out phase in dusty QSOs 💨
#NAM2025Durham
July 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
A few photos from the Discover Festival at @newcastleuni.bsky.social - great event with lots of engagement from the public! ✨

Karthika Bhuvanendran @astrofawcett.bsky.social @rosedshepherd.bsky.social
June 23, 2025 at 9:09 AM
Great watching the 3 Minute Thesis @newcastleuni.bsky.social final, featuring 3 of our brilliant astro PhD students! ✨
Rose Shepherd, Carola Zanoletti & Julie Thomas
May 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
📢New paper alert!

Carola Zanoletti explores how using PCA-based cuts can provide tighter constrains on modified gravity theories 🌌
arxiv.org/abs/2503.20951
April 2, 2025 at 1:06 PM
📢New paper alert!

Charlie MacMahon explores new ways to train cosmological emulators in order to constrain cosmological models 🖥️🌌
arxiv.org/abs/2504.00552
April 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Amazing to hear that two of our @newcastleuni.bsky.social astronomers, @astrofawcett.bsky.social & @bethmg.bsky.social, were celebrated at the inspirational women of Newcastle event for #IWD2025
March 11, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Ivan Almeida exploring simulations of outflows in AGN 💨
January 10, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Rose Shepherd sonifying the universe 🎼
January 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Melissa Ewing talking about X-ray polarimetry 🛰️
January 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Carola Zanoletti exploring modified gravity 🚀
January 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Carolyn Mill discussing photometric redshift uncertainties 📊
January 9, 2025 at 2:56 PM
@bethmg.bsky.social talking about one-point statistics 🌌
January 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
@astrosario.bsky.social demonstrating the FortesFit SED fitting code 📈
January 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Houda Haidar exploring dust with JWST ✨
January 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Steph Campbell exploring extended MIR emission with JWST 🔭
January 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
January 9, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Tonight Astro-Obs researcher Samuel Ward gave a wonderful Insights NCL talk "An Extragalactic Murder Mystery: Can Black Holes Kill Galaxies?"
December 5, 2023 at 10:14 PM