GRB 190114C: the first investigation of the most energetic gamma radiation
An international team of astronomers, including Michał Michałowski from AOI, has for the first time seen the most energetic gamma radiation from a gamma-ray burst (GRB) 190114C, the explosion of a very massive star. The energy was in the so-called … Continued
Asteroid Hygiea a candidate for a dwarf planet?
Astronomers from the Astronomical Observatory Institute AMU, working in an international team, obtained a very detailed image of Hygiea – the fourth in size asteroid, revolving the Sun between orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It made it possible to derive … Continued
Poznań-Warsaw team points to a plausible home system of the interstellar comet 2I/Borisov
A team of astronomers: Piotr A. Dybczyński (UAM), Małgorzata Królikowska (CBK PAN) and Rita Wysoczańska (UAM) have published recently a preprint (https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.10952) in which they propose a double star Kruger 60 as a possible home system for an interstellar comet … Continued
Astronomical Observatory Institute in the „EUROPLANET 2024 Research Infrastructure” project financed within the H2020 programme
Astronomical Observatory Institute, together with 56 other leading research and industrial partners, received funding for a four year project devoted to the creation of the interdisciplinary platform for planetary systems studies. Research will be carried out within the Horizon 2020 … Continued
Magdalena Otulakowska-Hypka is the laureate of the SONATINA 3 NCN grant
The National Science Center awarded the SONATINA 3 grant to Dr. Otulakowska-Hypka to study symbiotic stars with the use of optical interferometry. Optical interferometry combines the light observed by several telescopes that simultaneously observe the same astronomical object. This method … Continued