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Xavier Luri, new director of the IEEC

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An artist's impression of Japan’s Hayabusa2 space mission touching down on the surface of the asteroid 1998 KY26. New observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have revealed that 1998 KY26 is just 11 m wide, almost three times smaller than previously thought, and is spinning once every 5 minutes, which is much faster than expected. The image above shows an updated size comparison between the asteroid and spacecraft.

Can spacecraft Hayabusa2 touchdown? New study reveals space mission’s target asteroid is tinier and faster than thought

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News from BLOeM - multiplicity properties of massive stars at low metallicity

2 Oct

Seminar News from BLOeM - multiplicity properties of massive stars at low metallicity

Search and study of massive runaway stars in the Milky Way and impact on high-energy binaries

3 Oct

Thesis Defence Search and study of massive runaway stars in the Milky Way and impact on high-energy binaries

The co-formation and evolution of star clusters and their host galaxies

8 Oct

Seminar The co-formation and evolution of star clusters and their host galaxies

Not-quite-primordial black holes

9 Oct

Seminar Not-quite-primordial black holes

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