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,...
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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.
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.
Successful PhD defense of Piotr Wielgórski
On October 28th we celebrated a doctoral degree obtained by Piotr Wielgórski.
Successful PhD defense of Bartek Zgirski
On April 29th we said goodbye to a PhD student and welcomed a postdoc in the Araucaria Project.
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.
Cosmic distance ladder explained
Araucaria members explain our scientific work in episode 117 of Polish outreach series about astronomy, Astronarium.
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…