Adam McMaster

I’m an astronomy PhD student with the Open University studying variable stars in the SuperWASP all sky survey.

less than 1 minute read

I wrote an article for The Conversation about the recent Gaia Data Release 3 (along with Andrew Norton) summarising my favourite highlights from the new data:

The European Space Agency’s (Esa) Gaia mission has just released new data. The Gaia satellite was launched in 2013, with the aim of measuring the precise positions of a billion stars. In addition to measuring the stars’ positions, speeds and brightness, the satellite has collected data on a huge range of other objects.

There’s a lot to make astronomers excited. Here are five of our favourite insights that the data might provide.

You May Also Enjoy

SuperWASP: Black Hole Hunters at REINFORCE

less than 1 minute read

Last week I gave an update on the Black Hole Hunters project to the REINFORCE workshop, Fostering citizens’ role in the advance of ground-breaking research i...

British Science Week: Astronomy needs you!

less than 1 minute read

I hosted a discussion and Q&A about Black Hole Hunters, citizen science, and the “big data” revolution in astronomy, as part of British Science Week. We ...