2025
Since the beginning of March 2025 the Institute of Astronomy is in possession of the first in its history remotely controlled telescope – an advanced observational system with great research and educational possibilities. The main element of this unit is a 12.5 inch radius Ritchey-Chrétien telescope made by an American company RC Optical. Telescopes of […]
Imagine a distant star that works like a cosmic magnifying glass, bending and amplifying the light of an even more distant star that is right behind it. This fascinating trick of gravity is called gravitational microlensing and it aids astronomers in finding microlensing planets that could otherwise remain hidden. When a planet orbits a lens-star, […]