Agata Rożek

@agastro.bsky.social

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Astronomer looking at chunks of metal and rock in space. Currently at Royal Observatory Edinburgh. PhD. she/her. Asteroid 63440

A brown display board at a kindergarten with brown and white prints of craters made with cocoa and flour pinned. The card in the centered says Making Moon Craters with our favourite Astronomer Miss Agata Rożek
Agata smiling while leaning on an inflatable model of asteroid Bennu
Andy Rivkin at a lectern on a stage with ACM 2026 branding with a slide on low-albedo objects on a massive screen behind him
Picture of a lecture theatre with a camera livestreaming the proceedings. There is a speaker at the lectern at Asteroids Comets Meteors branding across the stage
A view of Poznań from "Brama Poznania" museum in Cathedral Island, featuring the venue for ACM 2026 conference and a red bridge
A card with NASA's Silver Group Achievement Award diploma awarded to the DART team "For exeptional contributions and support in the launch of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft, which will change the course of human history" with my name on it
An aerial shot of Poznań from a Ryanair flight featuring the Poznań University of Technology's Teaching Campus - the venue for ACM 2026 conference
A child's rendition of Saturn on a black background surrounded by all the moons, the biggest one a circle and the rest dots. A bit of Jupiter is lurking on top, and line art of constellations of Orion and Big Dipper in the background
A grayscale rendition of an asteroid shaped vaguely as a rubber duck or a shoe. The background are reference axes with a scale in km showing she asteroid to be just over 600m across.
Homemade gingerbreads covered in chocolate and sprinkles laid out on baking paper
A screen in a dark lecture theater with "Glasgow Science Centre" beamed on the screen next to a title slide of a talk about Planetary Defence in Action
A grey 3D print of the updated shape model for asteroid 1998 KY26 with a scale model of the Hayabusa-2 spacecraft, both in 1:48 scale
A picture of University of Edinburgh stand at the Space Comm Expo. A person sits at a table working on a tablet
Calm see and sunny skies. Sun shining over Edinburgh.
Clouds over an astronomical observatory
Northern lights
A kestrel holding down a starling
A screenshot from Google maps showing possible public transport route that would take 44 min to travel