SPHERE, a planet-hunting instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, has captured the first confirmed image of a planet caught in the act of forming in the dusty disc surrounding a young star. The young planet is carving a path through the primordial disc of gas and dust around the very young star PDS 70. The data suggest that the planet’s atmosphere is cloudy.
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Since 1988, the “Journées de la Matière Condensée”(JMC) are organized every even year by the Division of Condensed Matter Physics of the French Physics Society (SFP). The main topics covered correspond to all areas of condensed matter, from concepts to applications. The success of the JMC (600-700 attendees) renders this conference the biggest congress on [...]
The EPS works to support its members. Find below the list of activities of the EPS Executive Committee and staff last month:
The creation of a forum for sharing and discussion of the relevant state-of-the-art research results in all fields of physics, and promoting idea exchange between researchers from Macedonia and all over the world is the aim of the biennial conference on physics organized by the Society of Physicists of Macedonia and the Institute of Physics, [...]
The BPU10 is organised by Balkan Physical Union and hosted by the Union of Physicists in Bulgaria.
For the sixteenth year in a row, a group of young scientists organizes the Summer School of Science in Croatia. It is aimed at high-school students with strong interest in science where they get a hands-on experience working in small groups on a specific project. Participants learn and practice the scientific method and analysis, invaluable [...]
The 8th EPS-QEOD Europhoton Conference on ”Solid-State, Fibre and Waveguide Coherent Light Sources” will take place from September 2-7, 2018 at the Barcelona Biomedical Research Park (PRBB), Barcelona, Spain. The conference will feature the latest breakthroughs in the field of solid-state, fibre and waveguide light sources. See detailed topics. World-renowned researchers will discuss the latest developments [...]