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
- 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
- Bringing the James Webb Space Telescope to life in the UK
- Astronomy survey to revolutionise capability of understanding changing celestial phenomena
- Major success for Edinburgh Astrophysicists with the James Webb Space Telescope
- Ultra-sensitive radio images reveal thousands of star-forming galaxies in early Universe
- Triple success for astronomy researchers
- Possible light sparked by colliding black holes
- Astronomers measure wind speed on a brown dwarf
- Scientists discover supernova that outshines all others
- Neil Turok, the Inaugural Higgs Chair of Theoretical Physics, brings in new focus on the quantum universe
The Royal Observatory Edinburgh comprises the UK Astronomy Technology Centre of the Science and Technology Facilities Council, the Institute for Astronomy of the University of Edinburgh, the Higgs Centre for Innovation and the ROE Visitor Centre.