Astronomers from Poznań, working in an international team, have observed a gamma-ray burst and an associated hot cocoon of gas. This allowed them for the first time to confirm the existence of such cocoons in supernova explosions. The observations were … Continued
The team led by dr. hab. Michał Michałowski from the AOI AMU has discovered large amounts of atomic gas in the environment of an explosion of a relativistic supernova 2009bb type Ic. These supernovae explode when the most massive stars … Continued
One of our colleagues, prof. UAM Piotr A. Dybczyński, was invited to join an international team, which shall study 1I/’Oumuamua. This rocky body of hundreds of metres size is the first asteroid which came to us from the outside of … Continued
The biggest and the most accurate up to now new map of our Galaxy – Milky Way – will be created thanks to the data gathered by the cosmic telescope Gaia. The release of the new catalogue (DR2) containing important … 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 “Inner Main Belt V-type asteroids as tracers of differentiated … Continued