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
Astronomers from AMU Astronomical Observatory Institute have found a satellite debris which was mistaken for a gamma-ray burst (explosion of a very massive star) in the most distant galaxy known to date. If it was really a gamma-ray burst, … Continued
Astronomical Observatory Institute, Faculty of Physics, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań is seeking a PhD student for the project PRELUDIUM BIS funded by the National Science Centre led by prof. UAM Anna Marciniak. Details can be found here.
2021-06-28, AM