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Astronomers detect colliding neutron stars for the first time

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[:el] Astronomers announced on Monday that they had seen and heard a pair of dead stars collide, giving them their first glimpse of the violent process by which most of the gold and silver in the universe was created. The collision, known as a kilonova,...

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A Greek astronomer in the team that discovered the fastest pulsar in our galaxy

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[:el] Astronomers, among them a Greek researcher, have discovered two rapidly rotating radio pulsars with the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) radio telescope in the Netherlands by investigating unknown gamma-ray sources uncovered by NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The first pulsar (PSR J1552+5437) rotates 412 times per...

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Greek astronomer in the team that discovered potentially habitable planet

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[:el] An international team of astronomers including a Greek researcher, has found clear evidence of a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our Solar System. The new world, designated Proxima b, orbits its cool red parent star every 11 days and has a temperature...

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Greek astronomer in the team that captured black hole as it eats passing star

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[:el] Radio astronomers have used a radio telescope network the size of the Earth to zoom in on a unique phenomenon in a distant galaxy: a jet activated by a star being consumed by a supermassive black hole. The record-sharp observations reveal a compact and...

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Greek detects Jupiter-like storm on small, cool star

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[:el] Astronomers, led by a Greek researcher, have discovered what appears to be a tiny star with a giant, cloudy storm, using data from NASA’s Spitzer and Kepler space telescopes. The dark storm is akin to Jupiter’s Great Red Spot: a persistent, raging storm larger...

Famous Greeks

A boy counts the stars

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[:el] Dionysis Simopoulos was born in Ioannina on March 8, 1943, and studied Political Communication and Astrophysics at the Department of Physics and Astronomy of the State University of Luisiana, . During that time, he was awarded several prizes in the field of communication and...

Astronomers detect colliding neutron stars for the first time

A Greek astronomer in the team that discovered the fastest pulsar in our galaxy

Greek astronomer in the team that discovered potentially habitable planet

Greek astronomer in the team that captured black hole as it eats passing star

Greek detects Jupiter-like storm on small, cool star

A boy counts the stars

The enchanting “heart” of the Peloponnese

Τhe mapping of the human brain unites the science of biology and...

The man who mapped the human brain

Dr. Ioanna (Joan) Vernikos – The first Greek female scientist at NASA

Katerina Gogou – The carefree girl of Greek cinema who was anything...

Rania Bellou – The artist of memory

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