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| June 2012 |
| Euclid Mission was formally adopted yesterday by the ESA Science Programme Committee (SPC) and can move into the full construction phase. This is the final step
of the selection of Euclid as part of ESA's Cosmic Vision.
The Romanian Space Agency issued a Press Release in which the Romanian contribution to Euclid is mentioned. The official announcement can be found here. |
| EXCEPTIONAL - October 2011 |
| European Space Agency(ESA) chooses next two medium-class missions science missions, the first in ESA's Cosmic Vision 2015-2025: Solar Orbiter and EUCLID.More can
be found here. Romania contributes to EUCLID Mission through the Institute for Space Sciences supported by the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA). This contribution is especially important because it is for the first time when Romania is an institutional partner in a medium-class scientific space mission. This was made possible by ROSA with its succesfull efforts to include Romania in ESA and by the outstanding results obtained by ISS for PLANCK Mission. On October 10 2011, a press conference was held by Dr. Lucia Popa and Dr. Vlad Popa, the representatives of the Institute for Space Sciences for EUCLID Mission and the head of ROSA, Dr. Marius Ioan Piso . You can watch a recording of the press conference directly on our web page (Romanian). |
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| October 4th 2011 |
| The 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded one half to Saul Perlmutter and the other half jointly to
Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess "for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through observations of distant supernovae".
More details here |
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| SPECIAL - June 2011 |
| An exceptionally X-ray luminous
and massive galaxy cluster was detected by Planck and
confirmed by XMM-Newton
More details can be found in this paper |
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| PLANCK EARLY RESULTS 2011 |
| A set of papers describing the scientific performance of the Planck payload and presenting results regarding difuse emission and sources included in the Early Release Compact Source Catalogue can be found here |
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