Happy New 2022 Year!
Yet another year passed and we are thrilled to welcome 2022 with all its potential and surprises. In the Araucaria Project, we plan to build a couple of new telescopes in the Observatory Cerro...
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Araucaria’s distance to the LMC awarded by the Foundation for Polish Science
The Foundation for Polish Science Prize 2021 goes to the leader of the Araucaria Project for the precise distance determination to the Large Magellanic Cloud.
We’re hiring
Two post-doctoral and two senior positions at Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland, are available in the field of extragalactic distance scale.
Araucaria Meeting 2021, Sopot, Poland
Biennial meeting of the Araucaria Project took place in Sopot, Poland, on September 13-17, 2021. The theme of the meeting was “Physics behind the primary distance indicators”.
New post-doc fellow in CAMK Warsaw, Poland
We are happy to welcome dr. Megan Lewis in Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland.
Extended envelopes around Galactic Cepheids
Among 45 Milky Way Cepheids, investigated in this study, 13 show near-infrared excess, which is interpreted as the presence of circumstellar envelopes.
Distance determination from J-band magnitudes of carbon stars on the asymptotic giant branch (JAGB)
We used a new method of distance determination, based on carbon AGB stars, to derive distances to nine galaxies in the Local and Sculptor Group.
Numerous population of binary Cepheids with giant companions
A bold hypothesis that outliers above the period-luminosity relation of Classical Cepheids are binaries brings a discovery of 16 new binary Cepheids with giant companions in the LMC.
Cosmic distance ladder explained
Araucaria members explain our scientific work in episode 117 of Polish outreach series about astronomy, Astronarium.
We’re hiring
Join the Araucaria Project! We are looking for a postdoc fellow with an observational background, who is eager to work in Warsaw, Poland, on pulsating stars and eclipsing binaries.