New NCN / Sonata13 grant for asteroid research
Our Institute received 730,000 PLN funding in the Sonata-13 competition of the National Science Center, for the implementation of the project entitled “Inner Main Belt V-type asteroids as tracers of differentiated planetesimals”. During the project a comprehensive study of basaltic … Continued
An-li Tsai, a new employee of AOI
On 11 January 2018 dr. An-li Tsai started as a postdoc at the Observatory. She will work with dr. Michał Michałowski within the research project „PanDust: everything you always wanted to know about cosmic dust” funded by the National Science … 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 “New asteroid taxonomy as a tool to understand composition … Continued
Gaia-GOSA is the image of the week on ESA Gaia website
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
New NCN-OPUS grant for asteroid research
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