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Scientists at RoCS contributes to cutting-edge research on waves in the lower solar atmosphere Jan. 6, 2021 9:19 AM

Heating of the solar atmosphere (i.e., the chromosphere, the transition region, and the corona) has been a much-debated topic in solar physics for many decades. Seven researchers and scientists at RoCS - Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics, UiO, comes up with some answers in a worldwide cooperation.
Unlocking the mysteries of the Solar Atmosphere Dec. 22, 2020 9:33 AM

An article in Titan is dedicated a breakthrough work of the WaLSA international working group where Shahin Jafarzadeh from RoCS - Rosseland Centre of Solar Physics, UiO, take part.
Solar Orbiter prepares for festive Venus flyby Dec. 17, 2020 4:39 PM

Solar Orbiter is getting ready for the first of many gravity assist flybys of Venus on 27 December, to start bringing it closer to the Sun and tilting its orbit in order to observe our star from different perspectives.
BeyondPlanck lifts veil after veil on the early universe Nov. 18, 2020 11:05 AM

This BeyondPlanck paper presents new images of polarized emission from astrophysical sky components using never before combined data sets with a brand new approach.
BeyondPlanck solves the calibration conundrum Nov. 17, 2020 10:54 AM

Instrumental calibration is vital for the results of a CMB experiment to make sense. But how can we calibrate the instrument using measurements that we ideally need to calibrate the instrument to measure properly?

Fredagskollokvium: Saghir Bashir Jan. 22, 2021 11:00 AM

Saghir Bashir, University of Lisbon
Fredagskollokvium: Henrik Eklund Jan. 29, 2021 11:00 AM

Henrik Eklund, ITA
Disputation: Marie Kristine Foss Jan. 29, 2021 1:00 PM

Doctoral candidate Marie K. Foss at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Mapping the Teenage Universe with COMAP" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.
Fredagskollokvium: Francesco P. Massel Feb. 5, 2021 11:00 AM

Francesco P. Massel, University of South-Eastern Norway Dept. of Science and Industry systems
Fredagskollokvium: Celebrating Women in Astrophysics Feb. 12, 2021 11:00 AM

On February 11 th the world celebrate the international day of Women in Astronomy. This Fredagskollokvium will be all about ITA's women astrophysicists.

Slađana looks at cosmic voids to unravel the nature of dark energy Jan. 15, 2021 5:03 PM

"My research goal? Constraining cosmological and gravitational models and discovering the nature of dark energy".
Enjoying numerical methods and high performance computing Jan. 7, 2021 1:08 PM

Her name is Maria Guadalupe Barrios Sazo, but she goes by Lupe. She has come all the way from Guatemala to work as a Research Software Engineer at RoCS - Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics.
Working on a solar puzzle Dec. 4, 2020 3:38 PM

- My work will be focused on the long-standing puzzle of energy transport throughout the solar atmosphere, explains Kilian Krikova.