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In the Evaluation of the quality of research activity for 2022–2025, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education awarded Jagiellonian University A+ rating in the field of astronomy.

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APOD

Astronomy Picture of the Day
 

Exemplary sky picture from the apod.pl/apod service: a dusty nebula

 

 

 

Study program

Positive assessment by the Polish Accreditation Committee

Hyper-Kamiokande

Projekt „Hyper-Kamiokande” został zaakceptowany do finansowania w ramach programu „Wsparcie udziału polskich zespołów naukowych w międzynarodowych projektach infrastruktury badawczej” Ministerstwa Edukacji i Nauki.

 

Night under the Stars

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Decorational: Photo of the night sky with the central band of the Milky Way

 

 

 

Meteo

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AllSky camera: OAUJ, Kraków

Sky above the JU Observatory in Kraków, exemplary shot. Sunny sky with few clouds.

News

Academic Day of Remembrance at the Rakowicki Cemetery

12.11.2024
On Wednesday, 6 November, in celebration of the Academic Day of Remembrance, a delegation of staff, students and colleagues of the Jagiellonian Observatory put flowers on the graves of our long-standing academics Dr Maria Kurpinska-Winiarska and Dr Maciej Winiarski.
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Leszek M. Sokołowski (1948-2024)

07.11.2024
Professor passed away on 6 November 2024. He was the long-time head of the Department of Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology at the Astronomical Observatory.
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Jean-Pierre Lasota-Hirszowicz (1942-2024)

06.11.2024
On 1 November 2024, we received the sad news about the passing away of Professor Jean-Pierre Lasota-Hirszowicz - renowned cosmologist who has also worked as a visiting professor and eminent lecturer at our Observatory for several years.
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National Astronomy Competition ‘’Astrolabium‘’: registration open

23.10.2024
Polish school students and their teachers are invited to participate in this year's edition of the Competition.
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Lesser Poland's Researchers' Night 2024

17.09.2024
Researchers' Night will be held this year on Friday 27 September. The programme includes a tour of the Observatory, astronomy workshops and, if the weather is fine, sky observations with large telescopes!
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Planetary Science Conference – 5th National Mars Science Seminar (2024)

30.07.2024
The 5th National Mars Science Seminar will be held on October 11th, 2024, in Krakow, Poland.
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70th anniversary of the start of radio astronomy in Poland

01.07.2024
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First distinct observations of a smaller black hole in OJ 287

29.06.2024
Several collaborating research groups, including a team from the Jagiellonian University, have confirmed the presence of two supermassive black holes in the active nucleus of the distant galaxy OJ 287. The existence of a pair of black holes was first suggested by astronomers from the University of Turku, Finland, back in 1982.
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