Successful landing on asteroid Ryugu
On September 21, the small compact MINERVA-II1 rovers separated from the Hayabusa2 spacecraft (time of separation was 13:06 JST). The MINERVA-II1 consists of two rovers, Rover-1A and Rover-1B. It is confirmed that both rovers landed on the surface of asteroid … Continued
Large amounts of atomic gas in the environment of a supernova explosion
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
Studies of the first interstellar object
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
New map of the Milky Way
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
PhD scholarship within National Science Center project
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