Keyword: Department of Physics and Astronomy

Postdoctoral researcher Immanuel Christopher Jebaraj has been awarded the prestigious Vincenzo Ferraro Prize for young scholars in Space Physics. The award ceremony took place on 13 October in Sorrento, Italy.

Euclid, the European Space Agency’s space telescope, will be launched on July 1 if everything goes to plan. During the coming six years, it will be mapping one third of the sky.

Astronomers have unveiled the first image of the supermassive black hole at the centre of our own Milky Way galaxy. Interested in hearing how the image was made? Come and hear the researchers talk about the international research collaboration on Monday May 16th at 2 pm.

Researchers from Aalto University, the University of Turku and the Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO were part of the international research group in taking a revolutionary picture.

Using the telescopes of the MAGIC collaboration, scientists have detected very-high-energy gamma rays from the nova eruption of the RS Ophiuchi recurrent nova on the Milky Way.  The measured radiation is up to one hundred billion times more energetic than visible light. This is the first time such intense gamma rays have been observed from a nova. The observations provide new insights into the role of nova eruptions as sources of the mysterious cosmic rays.

During the last twenty years, the trading in stock markets has undergone significant changes. Researchers from the University of Turku and the University of Palermo have investigated the role of high-frequency traders in the markets.

Astronomy has traditionally required a fair amount of travelling by researchers, as observatories are located around the world. As the pandemic drove people to rely on remote connections, a research group from the University of Turku adopted a new type of arrangement to observe the skies.

An international study led from the University of Turku discovered phosphorus and fluorine in solid dust particles collected from a comet. The finding indicates that all the most important elements necessary for life may have been delivered to the Earth by comets.