The X-ray pulsars were discovered in the 70s and are among the most luminous objects in the X-ray sky. They are binary systems that consist of a magnetized neutron star in orbit with a normal stellar companion. The magnetic field Read More …
White dwarfs are among the most stable of stars. Left on their own, these stars that have exhausted most of their nuclear fuel — while still typically as massive as the Sun — and shrunk to a relatively small size Read More …
Description Massive spectroscopic datasets, in the form of IFU datacubes and large surveys consisting of thousands of spectra, have begun to stream into archives on a daily basis, and will soon include observations from NIRSpec and MIRI aboard JWST. Creating Read More …
The massive galaxies and a fraction of lower mass galaxies in the Local Universe host a super massive black hole (SMBH) in their centre. They have masses between millions to 10 billions times the mass of the Sun. When matter Read More …
Galaxy clusters are the largest objects in the universe held together by gravity. They typically contain hundreds of galaxies (stars, gas and dust), spread over a region of whose size is roughly 1025 cm. Their total masses exceed 1048 gm. Read More …
Beginning in April 2021, the CTA Observatory (CTAO) launched its new monthly webinar series “Journey through the Extreme Universe” livestreamed via the CTA YouTube and Facebook channels. The webinars have the main goal to take you on a journey through Read More …
The X-ray XMM-Newton space telescope in October 12th, 2021 completed its 4000th orbit around the Earth with a billion kilometers travelled so far! XMM-Newton is an European Space Agency X-ray satellite launched in December 10th of 1999. The mission was Read More …
The latest #AHEAD2020 movie 🎥 entitled “AHEAD2020: Unveiling the Invisible Universe” won the first prize in the “Best Full-dome” category in the 20th Baikal international film festival (8-12/09/2021, https://en.baikalkinofest.ru/). The movie was already played in about 40 planetaria around the Read More …
The AHEAD2020 main goal is to integrate and open research infrastructures for high energy and multi-messenger astrophysics. We offer a wide program of transnational access (TNA) to the best European test and calibration facilities and access free of cost to Read More …
Astronomers have measured motions within a remarkable cosmic structure for the first time using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The data show a blast wave and debris from an exploded star moving away from the explosion site and colliding with a Read More …
