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Ágnes Kóspál’s talk at the French Institute in Budapest

Ágnes Kóspál — Fri, 31 Mar 2023 13:11:00 +0000

The role of women in science was discussed for the third time at a forum initiated by the French Institute in Budapest, in collaboration with the Women in Science Association (NaTE). At the conference held on March 27, 2023, Hungarian and French female researchers from different scientific fields, including SACCRED PI Ágnes Kóspál, shared their experiences and best practices.

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Press release: Long-lost crystals in the protoplanetary disk of a young star were successfully rediscovered with the James Webb Space Telescope

Ágnes Kóspál — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 14:17:00 +0000

An international team led by researchers from the Konkoly Observatory at the ELKH Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (CSFK), used the MIRI spectrograph onboard the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to study the circumstellar disk of the Sun-like young star EX Lupi. Thanks to the exquisite sensitivity of the instrument, they rediscovered long-lost silicate crystals that had formed in an earlier outburst of EX Lupi. In the infrared spectrum of EX Lupi’s disk, they also detected molecules that are essential ingredients for the development of life, among others carbon monoxide and water vapor. The crystals that formed in a hot environment have now moved to a colder part of the protoplanetary disk that encircles the star, where they may become parts of forming comets and planets. This provides a possible explanation for the high amount of crystalline grains in comets in our own solar system. A study with the results of the research was published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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Press release: The Gaia Collaboration including CSFK researchers wins 2023 Berkeley Prize for creation of revolutionary new 3D map of the Milky Way

Ágnes Kóspál — Mon, 28 Nov 2022 14:21:00 +0000

The Konkoly Thege Miklós Astronomical Institute of the ELKH Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (CSFK) and several Hungarian researchers are part of the consortium that has been awarded the 2023 Lancelot M. Berkeley – New York Community Trust Meritable Work in Astronomy Prize. The prize was awarded to the consortium responsible for the implementation of the Gaia project for creating the largest and most accurate three-dimensional map of the Milky Way.

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Press release: “Intruder” caught redhanded in rarely detected stellar flyby eventPress release:

Ágnes Kóspál — Fri, 04 Feb 2022 13:57:00 +0000

An international team of astronomers, including Péter Ábrahám, Lei Chen, and Ágnes Kóspál from the Konkoly Observatory of the ELKH Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (Budapest, Hungary), published their latest results on the Z Canis Majoris (Z CMa) pre-main sequence binary system in the prestigious Nature Astronomy journal. The team claims that their images obtained with three powerful telescopes (the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii, the Jansky Very Large Array in the US, and the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile) imply that the circumstellar dust and gas disk was disturbed by an external body. Read more in ... Read more »

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