On 11 January 2018 dr. An-li Tsai started as a postdoc at the Observatory. She will work with dr. Michał Michałowski within the research project „PanDust: everything you always wanted to know about cosmic dust” funded by the National Science … Continued
Applications are invited for a PhD student scholarship at the Institute Astronomical Observatory, Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. PhD student will work within the National Science Center project “New asteroid taxonomy as a tool to understand composition … Continued
The European Space Agency has selected the Gaia-GOSA service as an image of the week for the Gaia official website. The article summarizes the goals of the project and talks about the observations gathered. The Gaia-GOSA service has been developed … Continued
UAM Institute of Astronomical Observatory received funding in the OPUS13 National Science Center competition in the amount of about 700 000PLN. As part of the project, a new classification of the asteroids will be created based on their surface properties … Continued
Gravitational waves, travelling disturbances of space-time predicted by the theory of general relativity, were discovered 2 years ago by LIGO (Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory). On the 17 August 2017 an international team of astronomers, including dr. Michał Michałowski from … Continued