Science Outreach

ESA video showcasing the Solar Orbiter (Metis) observations that we linked to interchange reconnection in Romano et al. 2025 by comparing to one of my simulations: link
Press release for our work exploring how coronal jets could be releated to magnetic switchbacks in the solar wind (Touresse et al. 2024): link.
NASA high performance computing service's science highlight of my simulation work on coupled CMEs (Wyper et al. 2021): web story, tweet.
AAS NOVA featured eclipse image from our 2021 paper on pseudostreamer formation (Scott et al. 2021): link.
NASA web story and an online article on the discovery and analysis of "plumelets" (Uritsky et al. ApJ, 2021) as a result of a NASA HSR grant to study the link between Jets and Plumes: web story, techexplorist.com.
AAS NOVA science highlight for my 2018 jet paper (Wyper et al. 2018): link.
Articles related to my Nature paper (Wyper et al. 2017) on solar eruptions: phys.org, Science Daily, Space.com, IBTimes, NASA web story.

Celebrate Science festival: I created and ran a stall (Celebrating the Sun) teaching the public about how the Sun's activity leads to the Aurora, 29^th - 31^th Oct. 2024
Public Talk: The Sun's Active Atmosphere, Bishop Auckland Astronomical Society, 6^th Oct. 2023
Public Talk: Applied Mathematics in Astrophysics: A celebration of International Mathematics Day, Cafe Scientifique, 14^th March 2023
Public Talk: The Sun's Active Atmosphere, Durham Astronomical Society, 24^th May 2019
Public Talk: The Sun's Active Atmosphere, Sunderland Astronomical Society, 18^th Mar. 2018
Helping at the CCMC stand during Explore@goddard, Sept. 26^th 2015
Dundee Univesity science day, Nov. 9^th 2013
Meet the expert day at the Dundee Science Center, July 29^th 2013 (picture: Dr David MacTaggart and I lighting fluorescent tubes with a plasma ball on the day).

Conversations with Goddard, Sept. 20^th 2016, discussing what it's like to work at NASA and how I ended up there for a while.

Dr Peter Wyper