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Astronomy & Astrophysics is an international journal publishing papers on the latest findings from the astronomy and astrophysics community www.aanda.org

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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Featured image: Laser-induced vesicles on the Murchison meteorite (Tai, K., et al., 2026, A&A, 713, A231) www.aanda.org/component/is...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
UNIGE press release: A “rebellious” exoplanet orbits in the opposite direction of its star www.unige.ch/medias/en/20... Article by Carteret et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...
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A “rebellious” exoplanet orbits in the opposite direction of its star - Medias - UNIGE
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Featured image: Photopolarimetry of millimeter dust pebbles (García-Izquierdo, F. J., et al., 2026, A&A, 713, A198) www.aanda.org/component/is...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
NCBJ press release: How to effectively identify galaxy mergers? NCBJ researchers compare morphological methods and machine learning www.ncbj.gov.pl/en/news/how-... Article by Cotter et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...
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Narodowe Centrum Badań Jądrowych
Nasze Centrum to unikalna jednostka badawcza w skali kraju. Mamy bardzo bogatą historię, a przede wszystkim ogromny dorobek naukowy, głównie w takich dziedzinach jak: fizyka, technologie jądrowe i pl...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Featured image: The LOFAR Galaxy Cluster Ultra-Deep Field (Botteon, A., et al., 2026, A&A, 713, A150) www.aanda.org/component/is...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Highlight: Expanding stellar associations as Galactic accelerometers by Till Sawala, Núria Miret Roig 2026, A&A, 713, A261 www.aanda.org/2026-highlig...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
NOA press release: Brewing, Raging and Lulling: Astronomers catch a quasar storm in action xraygroup.astro.noa.gr/brewing-ragi... Article by Akylas et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...
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Brewing, Raging and Lulling: Astronomers catch a quasar storm in action – X-ray Astronomy group
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
INAF press release: Galaxy "ghostbusters" with the VST www.inaf.it/en/inaf-news... Article by Tortora et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...
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GALAXY “GHOSTBUSTERS” WITH THE VST — English
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Dublin Uni. press release: Scientists discover how to decode weather on faraway, deep-space worlds www.tcd.ie/news_events/... Article by Schrader et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...
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Scientists discover how to decode weather on faraway, deep-space worlds
Scientists from Trinity have developed a powerful way to unravel the changing weather patterns on distant worlds.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Highlight: The JWST weather report: Unravelling the atmospheric variability of isolated worlds using principal component analysis by Merle A. Schrader, Johanna M. Vos, Evert Nasedkin, Jennifer Kestell, et al. 2026, A&A, 713, A192 www.aanda.org/2026-highlig...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Featured image: Magma ocean interior-atmosphere feedback evolution (Sastre, M., et al., 2026, A&A, 713, A159) www.aanda.org/component/issues/?task=images
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
ICE-CSIC press release: Ultra-fast black hole winds detected for the first time in a 'dead' galaxy ice.csic.es/news/news-pr... Article by Xu et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...
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Ultra-fast black hole winds detected for the first time in a 'dead' galaxy
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
IAC press release: An IAC study reveals that galaxies can grow in an "explosive" way www.iac.es/en/outreach/... Article by Ruiz Cejudo et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...
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An IAC study reveals that galaxies can grow in an "explosive" way
The general picture of galaxy growth is that of a slow and steady process. Scientific consensus has concluded that gas accumulates in their disks, which triggers star formation and causes the galaxy t...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
MPE press release: Black holes too massive for their galaxy – and still growing www.mpe.mpg.de/8232113/news... Article by Buchner et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...
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Black holes outgrow their galaxies
New findings reveal black holes growing faster than their galaxies, with mass ratios up to 1:20 compared to typical 1:200.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Featured image: Black holes outgrowing their host galaxies (Buchner, J., et al., 2026, A&A, 713, A11) www.aanda.org/component/is...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Highlight: A large population of overmassive black hole quasars at z=0.3-0.8 revealed by eROSITA by Johannes Buchner, Isabelle Gauger, Qiaoya Wu, Hattie Starck, Catarina Aydar, et al. 2026, A&A, 713, A11 www.aanda.org/2026-highlig...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Highlight: Hidden Vela supercluster revealed by the first hybrid redshift and peculiar velocity reconstruction by A.M. Hollinger, H.M. Courtois, R.C. Kraan-Korteweg, and al. 2026, A&A, 713, A4 www.aanda.org/2026-highlig...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Featured image: X-ray temperature of diffuse gas in Wd 1 (Albacete-Colombo, J. F., et al., 2026, A&A, 713, A79) www.aanda.org/component/is...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Featured image: Deep colour (g,r,i) image of the galaxy Messier 74 (Ruiz Cejudo, I., et al., 2026, A&A, 713, A10) www.aanda.org/component/is...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Featured image: Map revealing the hidden giant supercluster Vela (Hollinger, A. M., et al., 2026, A&A, 713, A4) www.aanda.org/component/is...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
MPE press release: Cosmic Trio: Three Black Holes Discovered in a Young Galaxy for the First Time www.mpe.mpg.de/8218247/news... Article by Übler et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...
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Cosmic Trio
Researchers discover three active supermassive black holes in a distant galaxy, revealing insights into early Universe black hole growth.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
ESA press release: Webb reveals dust and water surviving in the extreme environment around the Milky Way’s central black hole esawebb.org/news/weic2617/ Article by Peißker et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...
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Webb reveals dust and water surviving in the extreme environment around the Milky Way’s central black hole
Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of astronomers have discovered that dust and water can form and survive surprisingly close to the supermassive black hole at th...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Vienna Uni. press release: The ghost in Orion’s shell. New radio observations reveal hidden structures around the Orion Nebula www.univie.ac.at/en/news/deta... Article by Soler et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...
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The ghost in Orion's shell
New radio observations reveal hidden structures around the Orion Nebula
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Featured image: SN1987A’s outer rings emission lines from VLT/MUSE (Rosu, S., et al., 2026, A&A, 712, A188) www.aanda.org/component/is...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Highlight: The outer rings of SN,1987A from year 1994 to 2024. Morphology, light curves, and optical to mid-infrared spectra by S. Rosu, E. Gerville-Reache, S. Thomas, et al. 2026, A&A, 712, A188 www.aanda.org/2026-highlig...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
MPE/MPG press release: eROSITA delivers the most comprehensive census of the high-energy Universe to date www.mpe.mpg.de/8215311/news... Article by Ramos-Ceja et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...
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eROSITA delivers the most comprehensive census of the high-energy Universe to date
The second eROSITA data release reveals 1.9 million pointlike and 64,000 extended X-ray sources, enhancing cosmic population studies.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
ESO press release: Astronomers find strongest evidence yet that Betelgeuse has a companion www.eso.org/public/news/... Article by Montargès et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...
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Astronomers find strongest evidence yet that Betelgeuse has a companion - “The conclusion of a century-long quest”
At long last, astronomers have firm evidence that Betelgeuse, one of the most famous stars in the night sky, is not alone. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), a...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
CNRS/Strasbourg Observatory: Cosmic filaments shape star formation across the Universe astro.unistra.fr/en/2026/07/2... Article by Jego et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...
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Cosmic filaments shape star formation across the Universe - Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg
On scales of hundreds of millions of light-years, galaxies are distributed along a vast network of matter filaments known as the cosmic web. While it was already known that galaxies located near cosmi...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Featured image: Multiwavelength view of the Hydra I cluster (Srivastava, A., et al., 2026, A&A, 711, A226) www.aanda.org/component/is...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
NASA press release: NASA's Chandra Sees Black Hole Stirring "Pot" Containing Galactic Potato chandra.si.edu/press/26_rel... Article by Wang et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...
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Chandra Press Room :: NASA's Chandra Sees Black Hole Stirring "Pot" Containing Galactic Potato :: 21 July 2026
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Uppsala Uni. press release: The Sun contains more silver than previously estimated www.uu.se/en/press/pre... Article by Caliskan et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...
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The Sun contains more silver than previously estimated – Uppsala University
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Highlight: Planetary formation tracks on the Hertzsprung--Russell diagram. Visualising the processes of giant planet growth by Benedikt Gottstein, Gabriel-Dominique Marleau, Christoph Mordasini 2026, A&A, 711, A173 www.aanda.org/2026-highlig...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Featured image: Cold atmosphere of COCONUTS-2b with JWST-MIRI/MRS (Kühnle, H., et al., 2026, A&A, 710, A355) www.aanda.org/component/is...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Highlight: A quiescent galaxy in a gas-rich cosmic web node at z∼3 by Weichen Wang, Sebastiano Cantalupo, Marta Galbiati, Andrea Travascio, Antonio Pensabene, et al. 2026, A&A, 711, A84 www.aanda.org/2026-highlig...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Kyushu Uni. press release: Capturing the cosmic ‘drift’ before a star is born www.kyushu-u.ac.jp/en/researche... Article by Arzoumanian et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...
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Capturing the cosmic ‘drift’ before a star is born | Research Results | KYUSHU UNIVERSITY
Researchers observe the velocity difference between two molecules in a prestellar core, elucidating the process of early star formation
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
MPIA press release: Young Giant Gas Planet Beta Pic b refuses to reveal its origin www.mpia.de/news/science... Article by von Stauffenberg et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...
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Young Giant Gas Planet Beta Pic b Refuses to Reveal its Origin
New findings on Beta Pic b's atmosphere challenge traditional methods of tracing giant gas planets' formation locations.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Featured image: High-precision Euclid photometry of NGC 6397 (Griggio, M., et al., 2026, A&A, 711, A88) www.aanda.org/component/is...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ESA press release: Euclid discovers the most ancient quasar in the Universe www.esa.int/Science_Expl... Articles by Yang et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004... and Belladitta et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...
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Euclid discovers the most ancient quasar in the Universe
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Highlight: Extremely ultraviolet-bright starbursts at the end of cosmic reionization by R. Marques-Chaves, D. Schaerer, M. Dessauges-Zavadsky, et al. 2026, A&A, 711, A112 www.aanda.org/2026-highlig...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Featured image: JWST view of a UV-bright galaxy at z > 6 (Marques-Chaves, R., et al., 2026, A&A, 711, A112) www.aanda.org/component/is...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
NASA & ESA press release: ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Chandra space telescopes examine Milky Way at arms' length chandra.si.edu/press/26_rel... www.esa.int/Science_Expl... Article by Vaia et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...
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Chandra Press Room :: NASA's Chandra Examines Milky Way at Arms' Length :: 01 July 2026
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
It’s the final day of #EAS2026Lausanne! If you’ve been meaning to stop by the A&A stand #9, today is your chance! Come and meet: ☕ 10:30–11:00 Marc Huertas-Company A&A Associate Editor Today’s the day – SS44 starts at 13:15
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
ESO press release: "Beyond the limit": one million satellites and mirrors in space pose grave threat to the night sky www.eso.org/public/news/... Article by Hainaut: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...
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"Beyond the limit": one million satellites and mirrors in space pose grave threat to the night sky
A new European Southern Observatory (ESO) study has found that current proposals to launch over 1.7 million satellites into orbit, including extremely bright ones, would have “devastating consequences...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Join us for a coffee and a chat at the A&A stand #9 at #EAS2026Lausanne today. ☕ 10:30–11:00 Pierre-Alain Duc @padastr.bsky.social A&A Board & Executive Committee Member ☕ 16:30–17:00 João Alves @joaoalves.bsky.social A&A Letters Editor-in-Chief Don’t forget…SS44 is tomorrow!
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
IAA-CSIC press release: One of the faintest galaxies around Andromeda has been discovered: Andromeda XXXVI www.iaa.csic.es/english/one-... Article by Sakowska et al.: www.aanda.org/10.1051/0004...
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One of the faintest galaxies around Andromeda has been discovered: Andromeda XXXVI | Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Who’s at the A&A stand 9 at #EAS2026Lausanne today? ☕ 10:30–11:00 Arūnas Kučinskas Chairperson, A&A Board of Directors ☕ 16:30–17:00 David Elbaz A&A Managing Editor Only two days until SS44.
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Featured image: Gallery of strong gravitational lensing systems discovered in the Q1 dataset Credits: ESA/Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA; M. Walmsley, M. Huertas-Company, J.-C. Cuillandre; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO - "Euclid Quick Data Release (Q1)" Special issue, 2026, A&A, 711 www.aanda.org/component/is...
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A&A community survey reveals strong support for quality, fairness and human oversight in scientific publishing Read more: www.aanda.org/2026-press-r...
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EDP Sciences @edpsciences.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
A great first day at #EAS2026Lausanne. Great to see so many people stopping by the A&A stand with questions about the journal. Best of all, they’ve been able to put them directly to A&A editors and Board members. Exactly the conversations we were hoping for! @aanda-journal.bsky.social
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Astronomy & Astrophysics @aanda-journal.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Planning your coffee breaks at #EAS2026Lausanne? Drop by the A&A stand 9 to meet: ☕ 10:30–11:00 Françoise Combes A&A Associate Editor ☕ 16:30–17:00 Arūnas Kučinskas Chairperson, A&A Board of Directors Have you added SS44 to your programme?
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