Listen to the radio… about OCA
Only this week we had two talks in Polish radios about the OCA inauguration that’s happening at the end of November.
Category: News in the team
The winners of the Polish-French Science Award 2023
Grzegorz Pietrzyński and Pierre Kervella have been awarded a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie Polish-French Science Award.
Weronika Narloch and Gergely Hajdu at the AAS Journal Author Series
Our colleagues Weronika Narloch and Gergely Hajdu were invited by Frank Timmes to talk about their recent work as part of the AAS Journal Author Series.
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,...
First light at the Polish Astronomical Observatory in Chile
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
ASA is building telescopes in the Atacama Desert, Chile
Three new telescopes were installed in our Observatory Cerro Armazones in Chile. We documented this process with many photos!
Wolfgang Gieren awarded Barba Prize
The prize honors esteemed astronomers for their outstanding contributions to the development of astronomy in Chile.
New post-doc fellow in CAMK Warsaw, Poland
We are happy to welcome dr. Nikki Miller in Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center, Warsaw, Poland.
Happy New 2023 Year!
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...
The Araucaria Book now available online
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.