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.
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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,...
Wolfgang Gieren awarded Barba Prize
The prize honors esteemed astronomers for their outstanding contributions to the development of astronomy in Chile.
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.
The Araucaria Project wins ERC Synergy grant
So far the Araucaria Project has been focusing on distances in our local Universe, but we dared to make a bold leap much, much farther…
Habilitation title for Darek Graczyk
Today we are celebrating with our colleague Darek Graczyk, who obtained the title of doctor habilitated!
Grzegorz Pietrzyński wins ERC grant
Professor Grzegorz Pietrzyński has received European Research Council Advanced grant of 2.4 million Euro for “A sub-percent distance scale from binaries and Cepheids” project.
Konkurs “Science is Freedom”
Prof. Grzegorz Pietrzyński, together with the Araucaria Project, was honored with 2nd price in the contest “Science is Freedom” organized by Polish Ministry of Science.