An asteroid “Kudritzki”
Our long-time Araucarian Rolf Kudritzki has now his own asteroid, 2012 XN58 “Kudritzki”. The new name of the asteroid was announced in the Bulletin of the Working Group of Small Bodies Nomenclature, Volume 3,...
Our long-time Araucarian Rolf Kudritzki has now his own asteroid, 2012 XN58 “Kudritzki”. The new name of the asteroid was announced in the Bulletin of the Working Group of Small Bodies Nomenclature, Volume 3,...
In mid-April of this year, a newly-built 0.8-m telescope saw its first light from the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Three new telescopes were installed in our Observatory Cerro Armazones in Chile. We documented this process with many photos!
The prize honors esteemed astronomers for their outstanding contributions to the development of astronomy in Chile.
We are happy to welcome dr. Nikki Miller in Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland.
We’re entering the New Year with excitement about the renovation and expansion of our Cerro Armazones Observatory, which is now on the final stretch. We want to wish all our collaborators and friends self-fuelling...
In 2021 we’ve been busy working on a book that would summarize and highlight Araucaria’s most important scientific endeavours and their importance in the context of the extragalactic distance scale.
On October 28th we celebrated a doctoral degree obtained by Piotr Wielgórski.
On April 29th we said goodbye to a PhD student and welcomed a postdoc in the Araucaria Project.
We offer 2 positions for PhD students and 3 positions for postdocs in the Araucaria Project