QUVIK

The goal of the QUVIK satellite project (Quick Ultra-Violet Kilonovae Surveyor) is to prepare the first Czech space telescope, which will observe collisions of neutron stars, or possibly collisions between neutron stars and black holes. These observations can reveal, among other things, much about the formation of elements heavier than iron that are created during such collisions. These include, for example, gold or platinum.

The telescope will also enable observations of exoplanets—that is, planets orbiting stars other than the Sun. In combination with other observations from different observatories, scientists will be able to determine how these planets are losing their atmospheres. It will also be possible to observe very hot stars, supernovae, star clusters, and radiation from the cores of galaxies, when a supermassive black hole tears apart a star at the center of a galaxy.

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