Gravitational waves are invisible (yet incredibly fast) ripples in the otherwise tough, stiff fabric of spacetime. Gravitational waves travel at the speed of light and squeeze and stretch anything in their path as they pass by. Gravitational waves are fundamentally Read More …
The mission of the COSPAR Athens 2022 is to deliver a COSPAR Scientific Assembly that reflects, serves and prolongs COSPAR’s prominence, leading role and legacy. COSPAR Athens 2022 provides every means necessary to support COSPAR’s mission to ‘assemble a worldwide Read More …
🚀 Dr. Bianca Salmaso is the Program Manager and System Engineer for the construction of BeaTriX, a unique X-ray facility able to generate a parallel uniform and expanded X-ray beam to test the mirror modules of the ESA ATHENA telescope. Read More …
😉 NGC3242, a planetary #nebula, that have been observed both by @Chandra X-ray Observatory (X-rays in magenta colour) and Hubble Space Telescope (optical in red, green & blue colours) space telescopes. 📖 #Planetary nebulas are a phase that #stars like Read More …
For more than a decade now, multi-messenger astrophysics has established itself as a distinct discipline. To provide new insights and understand the properties and processes of the most energetic events in the Universe, it leverages the potential of the combined Read More …
🎆 We wish you all a wonderful and safe New Year! 🎆 😉Even though this was a tough year for all due to the covid situation, we are looking #AHEAD to a wealthy and prosperous #2022!
NGC7027, a planetary nebula, that have been observed both by Chandra (X-rays in magenta colour) and Hubble (optical in red, green & blue colours) space telescopes. Planetary nebulas are a phase that stars like the Sun undergo after they run Read More …
NGC6302, a planetary nebula, that have been observed both by Chandra (X-rays in magenta colour) and Hubble (optical in red, green & blue colours) space telescopes. Planetary nebulas are a phase that stars like the Sun undergo after they run Read More …
🚀 Dr. Ioannis Georgantopoulos is X-ray astronomer and director of research at the National Observatory of Athens in Greece. His research interests include supermassive black holes (Active Galactic Nuclei). He is the leader of the Greek team working on the Read More …
Four enormous cavities, or bubbles, have been found at the center of a galaxy cluster using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory. The left panel of the following graphic shows an optical image of the galaxy cluster called RBS 797, from NASA’s Read More …
