We report the first reliable measurement of the nebular [OI] 5577AA emission line in the Orion nebula. The use of diagnostic diagrams using the nebular [OI] and...
Participation to the PLATO Ground-Based Observation Programme
The ESA PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and Oscillations of stars) mission aims at the detection and characterisation (radii, mass, density, age) of terrestrial...
Particle accelerators in space: resolving them for the first time
The detection of optical counterparts of hot spots in radio galaxies has been a challenge in astrophysics since the 1960s. Being located at several 100 kpc away...
PASS - a Permanent All Sky Survey for the detection of transits
A project to survey the entire visible sky for the presence of transits by extrasolar planets is presented. The experiment would consist of one or two fixed...
The Permanent All Sky Survey (PASS) will consist of arrays of wide angle CCD cameras, that will permanently survey the entire visible sky from several observing...