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Tycho Brahe Prize 2018 for Prof. Andrzej Udalski

Prof. Andrzej Udalski from the University of Warsaw has received the Tycho Brahe Prize 2018 “in recognition of the role as driving force behind OGLE (Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment)”.

Light from two colliding neutron stars

LIGO and Virgo make first detection of gravitational waves produced by colliding neutron stars. Scientists from the UW contributed to this discovery.

The LIGO-Virgo network detected gravitational wave

The Virgo collaboration and the LIGO Scientific Collaboration report the three-detector observation of gravitational waves. This result highlights the potential of a network of gravitational waves.

Free-floating planets in the Milky Way

The astronomers from the OGLE team found hints of a population of Earth-mass free-floating planets, ejected from their parent planetary systems and gravitationally unbound to any star.

25 years of the OGLE project

One of the largest observing program in the history of the Polish astronomy marks its 25 years. From 24th to 28th July the international conference concerning the OGLE project will be held at the UW.

BLAPs – a new class of pulsating stars

Astronomers from the OGLE project have discovered an unknown class of pulsing variable stars. The discovery has been published in the prestigious “Nature Astronomy” journal.

A third detection of Gravitational Waves

A third detection of gravitational waves, ripples in space and time, has been made. The scientist from the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw contributed to this discovery.

Prof. Udalski awarded Dan David Prize

On 21st May Professor Andrzej Udalski from the Astronomical Observatory of the UW has received the Dan David Prize. This award belongs to the top ten prestigious distinctions in the world.

UW geologists in Chile

The employees of the Faculty of Geology commenced work associated with the construction of next generation ground-based very high-energy gamma-ray observatory – the Cherenkov Telescope Array.

Dan David Prize for astronomer

Professor Andrzej Udalski from the Astronomical Observatory of the UW was awarded the Dan David Prize. Before, Jacques Le Goff, Tony Blair, and Al Gore received this award.

Discovery of a circumbinary planet

Prof. Andrzej Udalski from the Astronomical Observatory of the UW is a co-author of a scientific paper on the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting two stars. The event was detected by OGLE sky survey.

Star caught exploding out of hibernation

Astronomers from the Warsaw University Astronomical Observatory based long-term large-scale sky survey OGLE announced the discovery of an extraordinary exploding star.

Gravitational waves in the “Nature”

“Nature” – the prestigious magazine has published an article on the evolution of two 40-100 Msun stars which were the source of the gravitational waves.

Second detection of gravitational waves

For the second time scientists from LIGO observed gravitational wave – ripples in the fabric of spacetime. Two scientists from the Astronomical Observatory have contributed to this discovery.

ERC grant for astronomer

Professor Grzegorz Pietrzyński from the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Warsaw was granted the ERC Advanced Grant. It is 12th prestigious award for the UW.

Accelerator in the Galactic center

Researchers from the H.E.S.S. observatory discovered the source accelerating Galactic cosmic rays – the supermassive black hole. Among them were Prof. Tomasz Bulik and Mira Grudzińska from the UW.

1st place for the UW student

Student of the Faculty of Physics of the UW – Wojciech Gładysz wrote the best essay about sustained exploration of the inner solar system and became the winner in 2015 Contest of the BMSIS.

Discovery of gravitational waves

Three scientists from the UW have cooperated in the discovery of gravitational waves. The research has confirmed a major prediction of Einstein’s general theory of relativity.

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