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Patzer Award for Elisa Schösser (ZAH/ARI)

The Ernst Patzer Foundation annually awards prizes for the best peer-reviewed publications by young researchers at MPIA and ZAH. This year, Elisa Schösser (ZAH/ARI) is one of the three prize winners. (2025/10/31)

New Gliese Fellow 2025: Dr. Natalia Lahén

Dr. Natalia Lahén started her new position as Gliese Fellow 2025 at ARI. Her main research interests focus on hydrodynamical simulations of the formation and evolution of stars and star clusters in a galactic ecosystem. (2025/10/01)

Carl Zeiss Foundation funds new research group at ZAH

With his new research group, Dr. Ksoll is pursuing the goal of developing evaluation algorithms for the study of star formation on the basis of machine learning. The Carl Zeiss Foundation is funding his project with 1.8 million euros. (2025/09/23)

LSWs optical systems design for CUBES passed final review

The Cassegrain U-Band Efficient Spectrograph (CUBES), a future instrument for ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), has successfully passed its final design review. LSW is responsible for the design and development of its optical system. (2025/08/08)

The Thousand Colour Map of Sculptor

Astronomers created the most detailed colour map of the Sculptor Galaxy - a technical and scientific triumph also featuring Heidelberg expertise. (2025/07/14)

New ZAH Director: Ralf Klessen

Since July 1, Prof. Dr. Ralf Klessen (ZAH/ITA) is managing director of ZAH. He succeeds Prof. Dr. Joachim Wambsganss. As deputy director the ZAH board elected Prof. Dr. Dominika Wylezalek (ZAH/ARI). (2025/07/01)

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Astro & Physics Talks

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Guest scientists at ZAH
Next Astro colloquia
Nov 07
11:00		TBA
Myriam Benisty (MPIA)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)
Nov 07
11:00		TBA
Gai? Zasowski (U. of Utah)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)
Nov 07
11:00		Galactic Archeology, Near and (Sort of) Far
Gaił Zasowski (U. of Utah)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)

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Recent ZAH publications
10/2025
Krugly, Yurij; Golubov, Oleksiy et al. (inc. Lipatova, Veronika)
Contact binary asteroid (153201) 2000 WO107: Rotation, shape model, and density
A&A 702, A170(2025)

10/2025
Henneco, J.; Schneider, F. R. N.; Laplace, E.
Contact tracing of binary stars: Pathways to stellar mergers (Corrigendum)
A&A 702, C4(2025)

10/2025
Villa-Durango, Mónica A.; Barrera-Ballesteros, Jorge et al. (inc. Kreckel, Kathryn)
SDSS-V Local Volume Mapper (LVM): revealing the structure of the Rosette Nebula
MNRAS 543, 1196(2025)

more publications ...