Category: News in the team

OCA (currently OCM) 2021 calendar

Happy New 2021 Year!

After ups and downs of 2020, it’s time for an amazing year 2021. How do we know it’s going to be like this? Because the future with our colleagues, collaborators and friends can only...

Colour-composite image of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC 300 and the surrounding sky field, obtained in 1999 and 2000 with the Wide-Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at the La Silla Observatory. Credit: ESO

15 years of NGC 300 distance

This exact day 15 years ago we published a paper that became a setting stone for our long-lasting project on improving the calibration of the cosmic distance scale in the local Universe.