The early stage researchers (ESRs) of the CHAMELEON network organised a four-day retreat in Copenhagen in early September 2022 with the goal of utilising the benefits of meeting in person to progress the research in our network. This was achieved through a busy schedule consisting of workshops, lecturers, presentations and co-working. In addition to progressing … Read more
(By Ludmila Carone) We at Chameleon are happy to announce the following book: Around Distant Suns – Emma Johanna Puranen Purchase in the UK.International Purchase via Amazon Around Distant Suns is an anthology of science fiction (SF) stories organised and edited by Emma Johanna Puranen, an interdisciplinary PhD student from the St Andrews Centre for … Read more
By Sven Kiefer (on behalf of the organization commitee) This year, the Massive Exoplanet MEME Exhibition opened its (virtual) doors for the second time. Visitors could enjoy over 100 memes about exoplanets, student life and astrophysics in general. We kicked it off with a short introductory presentation about astrophysics by Cyrano Chatziantoniou, a member of … Read more
(By Ludmila Carone) In the last blogpost, dear reader, you read all about what a planet transit is. (If not, then here you go!). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech In any case, identifying a transit is only the beginning. Now we can actually measure the transit. One of the first thing that we identify for a suspected transit … Read more
(By Ludmila Carone) A transit? What is that? Here is a link to Venus as it transits in front of our Sun in 2012. Extrasolar planets do something similar in front of their own central star. Only we cannot see it as directly as we can see it with Venus. Indirectly, however, we can if … Read more