Visitor Centre

Astrophysics Group
Mullard Space Science Laboratory

Welcome to the Visitor Centre for the Astrophysics Group. Here you will find more information on the science, projects and missions of the group. There are beginner's guides and talks given to schools and societies. Please browse through and if you have any comments or suggestions, then email www_astro@mssl.ucl.ac.uk.

MSSL BEGINNER'S GUIDES

A Guide to Active Galactic Nuclei Zoom in to the heart of a quasar with this animation The Unified Model of Active Galactic Nuclei An explanation of cosmological redshift A cartoon of the expanding Universe A Beginner's Guide to the Cosmic Microwave Background A Beginner's Guide to Spectra An Introduction to Binary Star Systems The evolution of stars - from birth to supernovae

PRESENTATIONS GIVEN TO GROUPS, SCHOOLS AND SOCIETIES

A Journey to the Stars

MISSIONS, PRESENT AND FUTURE

XMM-Newton UK XMM-Newton Information Centre - providing information about the ESA XMM-Newton observatory. Optical Monitor on XMM-Newton - MSSL's optical/UV telescope Reflection Grating Spectrometer - a high resolution X-ray spectrometer for XMM-Newton XMM Survey Science Centre (SSC) at MSSL - leading the X-ray Identification programme (XID). Making optical identifications of serendipitous X-ray sources discovered by XMM-Newton

Information about the SWIFT mission	Herschel- the Far Infra-Red Space Telescope	GAIA-RVS- a radial velocity spectrograph for ESA's GAIA mission