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AHPC activities

This Researcher’s Night, the AHPC group’s Scientists – experts in Astrophysics and Computer Science – will engage the public in a series of interactive sessions based on exciting facts relating to the Universe, astronomy and the modern methods of research we use to conduct our work, including High Performance Computing (parallel programming). The content of the activities will be adjusted according to individual’s background knowledge, with activities suitable for all ages from children to adults. Below one can find more details and information about the activities we will have on offer.

 

Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project – HELP

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Scale your Cosmos Right!

  • Webpage by Dr. Jen Gupta (ICG; University of Portsmouth)
  • A twist on the classic TV gameshow ‘Play Your Cards Right‘. The game is pretty simple: Six cards are set out face down. The player then turns over one card after the other and each time the player has to sort the astronomical objects based on their actual size!

 

EARTH

Name: Earth Mass: 5.9 ×1024 kg
Radius: 6,371 km
Distance (from Earth): 0 km # of Stars: 0

MOON

Name: Moon Mass: 7.3 ×1022 kg
Radius: 1,737 km
Distance (from Earth): 384,400 km = 1.2 light-second # of Stars: 0

JUPITER

Name: Jupiter Mass: 1.9×1027 kg = 317.8×Earth = 1/1047 × Sun
Radius: 69,911 km
Distance (from Earth):  Closest: 588 ×106 km = 33 light-minutes  Farthest: 968 ×106 km = 54 light-minutes  # of Stars: 0

 

SUN

Name: Sun Type: Star Mass: 1.9×1030 kg = 333,000 × Earth
Radius: 695,700 km = 109 × Earth
Distance (from Earth): 1 AU ≈ 1.496×108 km = 8 light-minutes # of Stars: 1

HELIX

Name: Helix Nebula Type: Planetary Nebula Mass: < 8 x Sun
Radius: 2.7 x 1013 km = 2.87 light-years
Distance (from Earth): 6.7 x 1015 km = 714 light-years # of Stars: 1 white dwarf star

 

ORION

Name: Orion Nebula Type: Diffuse Nebula Mass: ~ 2,000 x Sun
Radius: 1.1 x 1014 km = 12 light-years
Distance (from Earth): 1.3 x 1016 km =1,344 light-years # of Stars: 2,800

GLOBULAR CLUSTER

Name: 47 Tucanae (NGC 104) Type: Globular Cluster Mass: 7.00×105 x Sun  Radius: 5.7 x 1014 km = 60 light-years
Distance (from Earth): 1.6 x 1017 km =16,700 light-years # of Stars: > 500,000

 

SPIRAL GALAXY

Name: Pinwheel Galaxy (Messier 101) Type: Spiral Galaxy Mass: 100×109 x Sun (disk) + 3×109 x Sun (central bulge) Radius: 8 x 1017 km = 85,000 light-years
Distance (from Earth): 1.4 x 1020 km = 20,900,000 light-years # of Stars: ~1 trillion (1012)

 

GALAXY CLUSTER

Name: Abell 1689  Type: Galaxy Cluster Mass: ~1015 x Sun  Radius: 9.4 x 1018 km = 1,000,000 light-years
Distance (from Earth): 2.3 x 1022 km = 2,459,000,000 light-years # of Stars: >160,000 globular clusters

 

Chat with an Astronomer

  • Chat with our researchers on various astronomical subjects and recent research updates from our group.

High Performance Computing

By using a laptop and a wireless connection to High Performance Computing machines (Supercomputers) our researchers will engage the public through live performance comparisons of serial and parallel algorithms. Using the guidance of our researchers, the public will be able to develop and test simple parallel and serial algorithms in real time, using a Supercomputer.

Scientific Posters