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2nd of November Science Highlight : Evolution of Quasar Host Galaxies Team led by Jari Kotilainen traces the luminosity evolution of quasar host galaxies.

14th October Prof. Nikolai Voshchinnikov (St. Petersburg State University) will give a lecture course PHYSICS OF INTERSTELLAR DUST during November 2 - 13, 2009. Contact Aleksandr Mylläri for further details.

22nd-24th October Galileian Nights at the Tuorla Observatory. Starting at 7PM we will be pointing our telescope towards the objects that Galileo once looked at. Additional shows, during this time, presented at the planetarium.

18th September Science Highlight : Probing the structure of a faint X-ray binary Work by a team led by Pasi Hakala uncovers assymetric structure in the accretion disc of the faint X-ray binary UW CrB

September 14-30 Prof. Konstantin V. Kholshevnikov from the Sobolev Astronomical Institute (St. Petersburg State University) will be giving a short course on "Dynamics of Extrasolar Planets".

4th June Congratulations to Tuorla Observatory PhD student Veli-Pekka Hentunen, who participated in supernova research published in the Nature magazine.

5th May Thesis defence of Tomi Hyvönen will take place in the Quantum building on Saturday 9th May 2009 at 12:00.

22nd March Tuorla welcomes Cristina Romero-Canizales, who is visiting for three months from Granada, Spain. Cristina will be working with Seppo Mattila on infrared properties of supernovae.

17th March Congratulations to Seppo Mikkola, who has been appointed as an Editorial board member of The Open Astronomy Journal, on on-line journal which covers all areas of astronomy and astrophysics.

6th March Congratulations to Esko Gardner, Chris Flynn, Samuli Kotiranta, Pekka Heinämäki, Elizaveta Rastorgueva, Aleksi Halkola, Laura Portinari and Pasi Nurmi, all of whom have received funding for research and travel from the Magnus Ehrnrooth Foundation, and to Heidi Lietzen who has obtained funding for the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

6th March Welcome to Juliet Datson, who joins Tuorla to do a PhD under the supervision of Chris Flynn and Laura Portinari. Juliet comes to us from MPIA in Heidelberg, and will be working on the star formation history of the Milky Way.

2nd March Congratulations to Seppo Mikkola, who has just been elected to the Organising Committee of the International Astronomical Union's Commission 7 (Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy), to serve in the period 2009-2012.

20th February Science Highlight : Proposed exoplanet confirmed. Graduate students Mikko Tuomi and Samuli Kotiranta find an exoplanet, with a technique that holds promise to find many more.

30th January First Supernova Discovered with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics in research lead by Tuorla's Seppo Mattila and Erkki Kankare. University of Turku has a press release in Finnish.

14th January Welcome to Riho Reinthal, who joins Tuorla to do a PhD under the supervision of Elina Lindfors. Riho comes to us from Tartu in Estonia.