Professor Philip Best
Post:
Professor of Extragalactic Astronomy
Research Interests:
- Active galactic nuclei
- High-redshift galaxies
- Galaxy evolution
- Clusters of galaxies
Email username:
pnb
Room:
C21
Phone:
358
What's New
- Data tests Einstein’s famous theory of General Relativity
- Completion of the largest infrared map of the Milky Way
- PhD student team involved in planet discovery
- Release of observations and data from the Euclid space telescope
- Dormant massive black hole spotted in the Milky Way
- Euclid satellite explores mysteries of the dark Universe
- Ancient galaxy revealed by space telescope
- Astronomers reveal the largest cosmic explosion ever seen
- Research award success for Jim Dunlop
- Astronomy award recognition for John Peacock
- The most distant galaxy discovered by Edinburgh astronomers
- Comet chaser mission moves from blueprint to reality
- A massive new harvest of astronomical data
- Heavens need environmental protection like the Earth
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