Promotion and popularisation of Science and Astronomy
Scientific career
Fields
Astronomy
Institutions
Pioneer Productions
British Astronomical Association
Thesis
High Resolution Radio Observations of Tycho's Supernova Remnant and Forty-Eight Extragalactic Sources (1976)
Doctoral advisor
Sir Martin Ryle
Stuart Nigel HenbestFRAS[1] (born 6 May 1951) is a British astronomer and science communicator. Born in Manchester and educated in Belfast and at Leicester University, Henbest researched in radio astronomy at the University of Cambridge before becoming a freelance author, television producer and astronomy lecturer. Asteroid 3795 Nigel is named after him.[1][2]
Henbest has written around 50 books and over 1,000 articles on astronomy and space for the popular market, including The New Astronomy and The Guide to the Galaxy.[3] Among his award-winning television productions are On Jupiter, Black Holes and Journey to the Edge of the Universe.[3] As well as lecturing on cruises, Henbest has given astronomy presentations on all seven continents (including Antarctica). He also leads tours to view total eclipses of the Sun.[4]
Formerly Astronomy Consultant to New Scientist magazine, editor of the Journal of the British Astronomical Association and media consultant to the Royal Greenwich Observatory, Henbest is now a Future Astronaut with Virgin Galactic.[5]
Married with two stepdaughters, Henbest lives in Hampstead, North Carolina while retaining a residence in Buckinghamshire, UK.[3]
^ ab"Nigel Henbest biography at the University of Leicester". University of Leicester. Retrieved 19 October 2015.
^"The Stars were out at Morley". Learning for Life at Morley. Retrieved 23 October 2015.
^ abc"Shooting stars, a blue moon and a partial eclipse Astronomer, author and broadcaster Nigel Henbest speaks to the MEN". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
^Dayton, Leigh (2009), Fun in the Egyptian Sun, The Australian, retrieved 13 September 2018
^Philip Sherwell (23 October 2011). "Brits for blast off: tourists head to final frontier". Telegraph. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
Stuart NigelHenbest FRAS (born 6 May 1951) is a British astronomer and science communicator. Born in Manchester and educated in Belfast and at Leicester...
continued its sponsored research into these concepts. According to author NigelHenbest, one of BAC's research teams, headed by engineer Tom Smith, Chief of...
Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 28 February 2011. Heather Couper & NigelHenbest (1999). Space Encyclopedia. Dorling Kindersley. ISBN 978-0-7894-4708-1...
Astronomy and Physics. At Leicester, she met fellow astronomy student NigelHenbest; they formed a working partnership – Hencoup Enterprises – that focuses...
tonne payload to a geostationary earth orbit (GEO). According to author NigelHenbest, Britain was likely unable to pursue Mustard's development alone, but...
in scientific and other documentary productions. Founded in 1988, by NigelHenbest, Heather Couper and Stuart Carter, Pioneer targeted science broadcasting...
Poet Laureate, lives in West Didsbury as of 2009.[citation needed] NigelHenbest, astronomer, author and television producer, was born in West Didsbury...
Bibcode:1984RSPTA.313....5W. doi:10.1098/rsta.1984.0078. S2CID 120193937. NigelHenbest (1991). "Birth of the planets: The Earth and its fellow planets may...
Bibcode:2006A&A...453..785F. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20054231. S2CID 7067530. NigelHenbest (1991). "Birth of the planets: The Earth and its fellow planets may...
2013". New Scientist. 21 November 2013. Retrieved 7 December 2013. NigelHenbest (13 July 2013). "Race to Mars: Who will be first to the Red Planet?"...
Journey to the Edge of the Universe Genre Documentary Written by NigelHenbest, Billie Pink Directed by Yavar Abbas Starring Alec Baldwin Sean Pertwee...
1952-1960 D. G. Hinds 1960-1963 Frank Hyde 1963-1965 Colin Ronan 1965-1985 NigelHenbest 1985-1987 Jacqueline Mitton 1987-1993 Hazel McGee 1994-2018 Philip Jennings...
Journal. 140: 646–655. Bibcode:1964ApJ...140..646L. doi:10.1086/147955. Henbest, Nigel (1994), The Guide to the Galaxy, Cambridge University Press, p. 74,...
Guide To Astronomical Discovery. Cambridge University Press. p. 242. Henbest, Nigel (10 January 1980). Kenward, Michael; Ferry, Georgina (eds.). "Practical...
the hope of the Christian", Fixed stars and binary systems. p. 233 Henbest, Nigel (1991). "Birth of the planets: The Earth and its fellow planets may...
Wetherill". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-08-18. Henbest, Nigel. "Science: Are there lots of Earths out there?". New Scientist. Archived...
architect Edward Calvert (c. 1847 – 1914), domestic architect Stewart Henbest Capper (1859–1925), architect of Ramsay Gardens John Alexander Carfrae...
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