Chris Lintott

Astrophysicist

Chris Lintott is a Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Oxford and a co-host of BBC's The Sky at Night.

Recent articles by Chris Lintott

Image of an asteroid colliding and blocking out a star's light. Credit: NASA

The mystery of double-dipping stars

Illustration showing what our galaxy the Milky Way likely looks like.

Can we measure the mass of the Milky Way?

Hubble has helped to define the shape of the Ring Nebula, revealing it to be doughnut shaped, with lower density material at its core. Credit: Credits: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration

Astronomy explained What is a planetary nebula?

A Chandra X-ray Observatory image of galaxy NGC 4636

X-ray reveals the secrets of the Virgo Cluster

The hunt for Green Pea galaxies has been swept along by citizen scientists. The distinctive colour is due to the glow of excited oxygen. Credit: Richard Nowell and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

What are Green Pea galaxies?

A star-forming region 210,000 light-years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud, including star cluster NGC 346. Credit: NASA, ESA and A. Nota (ESA/STScI, STScI/AURA)

What can young stars tell us about the Universe?

Recent explosive volcanic deposit around a fissure of the Cerberus Fossae system. Credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS/The Murray Lab

Mars Are the Red Planet's volcanoes active?

Loops and blobs of cosmic dust in elliptical galaxy NGC 1316. Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

Where is all the cosmic dust?

A simulation showing Earth’s night sky in 3.75 billion years as Andromeda collides with the Milky Way. Credit: NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger

Andromeda-Milky Way collision: what happens when the galaxies collide?

I. HEYWOOD (OXFORD/RHODES/SARAO), NARVIKK/ISTOCK/GETTY. Two giant radio galaxies found with the MeerKAT telescope, with their light shown in red

Two giant radio galaxies found are among brightest in the Universe

Artist's impression of a Sun-like star near a supermassive black hole. Credit: ESO, ESA/Hubble, M. Kornmesser

Where is the nearest black hole to Earth?

Artist's impression of hypervelocity star HE 0437-5439, which has been booted out of the Milky Way. Credit: NASA, ESA, and G. Bacon (STScI)

The mystery of the Milky Way’s runaway stars

An artist’s impression shows how the Universe’s first, massive, blue stars are embedded in gaseous filaments. Credit: N.R.Fuller/National Science Foundation

How did the first stars affect the evolution of the Universe?

Do the high energy jets we see in the most active systems, suggest growing black holes? Credit: draco-zlat/getty images

BL Lacertae objects: attempting to understand a cosmic riddle

Three images of NGC 2770 from early 2008 show the rare occurrence of two supernovae. Credit: ESO

Why do some galaxies have more supernovae than others?