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Greek children swept the medals at the 2nd Astronomy – Astrophysics Olympiad

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The natural disaster that struck Thessaly and Volos last September, fortunately, did not affect the 2nd International Youth Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad, which took place in the capital of Magnesia from 24 to 30 September, at the Cultural Centre of Nea Ionia. As the announcement...
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Discovered the fastest pulsar in our galaxy

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[:el] Sotiris A. Sanidas is an astronomer and a post-doctoral researcher at the Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam, with expertise in Mathematical Physics, Theoretical Physics and Cosmology. His main research interests include Pulsars (surveys, timing), Radio Astronomy Instrumentation (monolithic and phased arrays,...
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Unlocks the secrets of the Universe

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[:el] Vicky Kalogera is director of Northwestern’s Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics (CIERA) and the Erastus O. Haven Professor of Physics and Astronomy in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. Her research focuses on the physics of compact astrophysical objects, specifically...
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Captured black hole as it eats passing star

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[:el] Dimitrios Giannios is a professor of Physics and Astronomy at Purdue University. He was part of a team that discovered a black hole absorbing a star in a distant galaxy. D. Giannios completed his B.Sc. at the University of Patras in Greece in 2000....
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Searching to discover new galaxies

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[:el] Dr. Leonidas Moustakas is a Research Scientist, astrophysicist, working in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA), being part of the “greek community” of four other scientists, Anezina Solomonidou, Antonis Bloom, Anastasios Petropoulos and Panagiotis Kourdis, that also work there. He is interested in fundamental questions...
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Angelos Vourlidas: NASA’s greek “eye” to the limitless sky

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[:el]Angelos Vourlidas is an astrophysicist and a supervisor in the field of Solar Section at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.  In August 2015,  started to work with the National Observatory of Athens in the field of research on Coronal Mass Ejections and Space...

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