New Discoveries About Asteroid 1998 KY26 – Preparing for the Hayabusa2 Mission Six years before the planned encounter of the Japanese Hayabusa2 spacecraft with asteroid 1998 KY26, a team from the Astronomical Observatory Institute of Adam Mickiewicz University – Prof. … Continued
On March 24, 2025, at around 9:00 PM, an extraordinary phenomenon known as the “cosmic whirlpool” was visible over Poznań (and beyond). Since July 2024, our Observatory has been equipped with a set of cameras that monitor the sky as … Continued
Prof. Oleksyi Golubov from Kharkiv University (Ukraine) will give a series of lectures for students and PhD students. They will be held Monday to Friday (24-28 Feb) from 10:00 to 12:30 in the conference room ‘Salonik’ of our Observatory. During … Continued
Astronomical Observatory Institute, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań is seeking a postdoc for the project OPUS funded by the National Science Centre led by dr. hab. Michał Michałowski. Details can be found here.
Binary stars exploding as supernovae type Ic Astronomers from the Astronomical Observatory Institute of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland) have solved the mystery of enigmatic cosmic explosions known as supernovae type Ic. During these very energetic explosions we … Continued