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During 2024 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Astronomical Society, Prof. Eduardo Martin and Jun-Yan Zhang, SUBSTELLAR project principal investigator and predoctoral researcher irrespectively, visited the High School affiliated to Zhejiang University, where Jun-Yan studied during 2012 to 2015 and created an astronomical club.

Prof. Martin presented a popular science talk entitled “Free Floating Planets: Worlds Without Twilights" for a group including more than 200 students, their teachers and few amateur astronomers from local astronomical association.

Prof. Martin started the talk showing the SUBSTELLAR video, and Jun-Yan was assisting with interpretation. 

The audience responded with endless applauses, and countless questions regarding from specific techniques to the connection between our humanity and astronomy.

Prof. Eduardo Martin and Jun-Yan Zhang, SUBSTELLAR project principal investigator and predoctoral researcher irrespectively, are attending the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Chinese Astronomical Society, in Hangzhou, China.

Prof. Martin presented an invited talk entitled “Early Observations of Stars and Substellar Objects with Euclid’. He started this talk showing the SUBSTELLAR video , and continued presenting the work and preliminary results obtained by our team with the early released observations made by Euclid.

Some images of the meeting: 

SUBSTELLAR, an European Research Council advanced project, awarded to IAC Prof. Eduardo Martín, has finished it's first outreach video.

The video is a result of the collaboration between the SUBSTELLAR team and the audiovisual company The Flow Studio.

The video, entitled “SUBSTELLAR ”, intends to reach a large audience and it is the first attempt of our team of presenting, in a nutshell, information about the substellar world.

We would like to thank our colleague Jun-Yan Zhang (aka Jerry), who kindly translated the video into Chinesse laguaje. See the translated version by clicking on SUBSTELLAR-CN  . 

On September 5th 2024, Dr Marusa Zerjal, SUBSTELLAR postdoctoral researcher, gave a seminar at the Center for Astrophysics and Cosmology , University of Nova Gorica, Slovenia.

The presentation made by Dr Zerjal was entitled  "Substellar science with the Euclid space telescope" .

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Posted by Daniel Lawler (phys.org)

Referring to the release of the Euclid telescope's first scientific results, announced last week by the European Space Agency (ESA), PHYS.ORG has published a brief article in which Prof. Eduardo Martín, SUBSTELLAR principal investigator, among other researchers commented these results.

"Among the discoveries were seven new free-floating planets, gas giants at least four times the mass of Jupiter. They were spotted in the Orion Nebula, the nearest star-forming region to Earth, roughly 1,500 light years away."

"Euclid also confirmed the existence of dozens of other previously detected rogue planets. Spanish astronomer Eduardo Martin, the lead author of a pre-print study published on arXiv.org Friday, said this was likely just the "tip of the iceberg". Because they do not reflect the light of a star, spotting rogue planets is like "finding a needle in a haystack", Martin told AFP."

See the whole post at  Starless and forever alone...