Category Archives: Astrophysics

The Story of Stuff

Posted on 10/11/2012 by Jon Butterworth

An episode of the Sky at Night, which if I remember rightly featured me and Chris Lintott burying a bottle in some gravel on a rather cold beach.

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The matter that’s not not not there

Posted on 25/05/2012 by Jon Butterworth

Our local dark matter stages a comeback Astronomers study the motion of stars in galaxies, as they twist and rotate under each other’s gravitational attraction. The motion throws up a long-standing puzzle in astrophysics: The way the stars move indicates … Continue reading →

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Displacement activity

Posted on 30/04/2012 by Jon Butterworth

Well, I can’t get into my Guardian site, because of some VPN and password mix up. And yet I desperately need to write something to take my mind off the derby this evening. So here I am, back again. Today … Continue reading →

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Dark matter, cosmic rays, open access antimatter and LHC protons

Posted on 23/04/2012 by Jon Butterworth

At the Guardian.

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