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
The presence of a ring around Haumea, a dwarf planet located beyond Neptune, is reported online this week in Nature. This discovery opens up new avenues of research in the trans-Neptunian region. Of the four known dwarf planets (Pluto, Eris, … Continued
On 2017-09-21 we have observed a NASA OSIRIS-REx spacecraft on its journey to the Potentially Hazardous Asteroid (101995) Bennu during a gravitational assist maneuver near the Earth. This little dot visible in the center of the image above is a … Continued