A tidal disruption event (or as it’s well known as “TDE”) is an astronomical phenomenon that happens when a star passes sufficiently close to a supermassive black hole and the enormous gravitational force (tidal force) of the black hole pulls Read More …
During the last week of September, the international contest to learn about X-ray astronomy using the Quizizz platform has allowed the general public to know aspects of the following projects: AHEAD2020 project, the Athena Community Office, the XMM2Athena project, the Read More …
To celebrate this year’s European Researchers Night, we have prepared an international contest to learn about X-ray astronomy using the Quizizz platform. This contest is a joint international initiative of the following projects: the AHEAD2020 project, the Athena Community Office, Read More …
The centre of the Milky Way Galaxy hosts a black hole (Sagittarius A* (Sgr A)) of about 4 million the mass of the Sun. Because of its mass, our own galaxy is considered as very “calm” at present, compared to those Read More …
The 28th summer school of #Astrophysics for 15-18 y.o. students organized by the National Observatory of Athens in Greece lasted two days (31/08-01/09) and included talks, hands-on exercises and observations of our Sun/Moon and many more! The AHEAD2020 team members Read More …
ESA’s Euclid mission is designed to explore the composition and evolution of the dark Universe. The space telescope will create a great map of the large-scale structure of the Universe across space and time by observing billions of galaxies out Read More …
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AHEAD2020 in collaboration with the Penteli’s visitor center of the National Observatory of Athens organizes a summer school (in person) of Astrophysics for elementary school children under the dome of the historic telescope NEWALL in 4-5th of July, 2023. Based Read More …
The National Observatory of Athens (NOA) organizes an event in memory of the great Greek scientist and scholar, Stavros Katsanevas, professor emeritus of Astroparticle Physics and Cosmology at APC and director of the European Gravitational Wave Observatory. ⏰ Monday, June Read More …
Bovornpratch Vijarnwannaluk(Tohoku Univ.) “Obscuration of Luminous AGN unveiled with Deep & Wide Multiwavelength Datasets”. IAASARS NOA is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Topic: Extragalactic Talk. 13.00 B. VijarnwannalukTime: Jun 1, 2023 13:00 Athens If you would like to Read More …
