Michał Michałowski has received an OPUS grant from the National Science Centre for a 4-year project entitled “Which stars explode as supernovae?”. He will study gas in galaxies hosting the largest cosmic explosions of stars.
Date: 20.07, 13:00 Presenter: Christina Thöne Affiliation: Czech Academy of Sciences, Astronomical Institute Title: GRB 171205A: Multi-wavelength observations of the host of a peculiar nearby GRB Abstract: Long GRBs are related to the collapse of a very massive star and … Continued
Astronomers from Poznań participated in the discovery and characterization of a very small asteroid using the James Webb Spacee Telescope. The detected asteroid is the smallest object observed by the James Webb telescope and one of the smallest observed asteroids … Continued
Jubilee conference at the Astronomical Observatory in Kharkiv (Ukraine)
On 15 February, 2022 at the Institute of Astronomy of the National University in Kharkiv (Ukraine) a jubilee conference to celebrate the 80th birthday of prof. Dmitrij F. Lupishko was held. It was devoted to asteroid phometry and polarimetry. Due … Continued
The SOAR telescope, part of the Cerro Tololo Observatory in Chile (Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory – CTIO), helped astronomers confirm the existence of Earth’s second Trojan asteroid and determine its exact orbit. Based on the observations, it was found that … Continued