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Prof. Dr. Michela Mapelli (ZAH/ITA) has been appointed to the "Henriette Herz Scouting Program". She now has the opportunity to recommend scientific talents from abroad for a Humboldt Research Fellowship in Heidelberg. (2024/01/08)

To investigate the formation of dormant black holes which are part of a binary star system with a companion star, Prof. Dr. Michela Mapelli (ZAH/ITA) receives a research grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG). (25/01/07)

Eva Grebel (ZAH) received the teaching award from the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Heidelberg University. (2024/12/06)

The Ernst Patzer Foundation is awarding the best refereed publications by young researchers at MPIA and ZAH. This year, Brooke Polak (ITA) and Jose Eduardo Mendez-Delgado (ARI) are among the awardees. (2024/11/30)

Dr. Dominika Wylezalek, Emmy Noether Junior Research Group Leader at ZAH/ARI, received the Hengstberger Award 2024. The award will support Dr. Wylezalek in organising a scientific symposium at the IWH in 2025. (2024/10/19)

The Landessternwarte Königstuhl (LSW) mourns the loss of Dr. Gerhard Klare, who died on July 24, 2024 at the age of 92. (2024/07/25)


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ASTROPHYSICS CURRICULUM
Astro & Physics Talks
Next Astro colloquia
Jan 16
11:15
A Bi-stability Jump for Wolf-Rayet stars?
Roel Lefever (ARI)
ARI Institute Colloquium
ARI, Moenchhofstrasse 12-14, Seminarraum 1.OG
Jan 17
11:00
Dancing JWST spectra of an enigmatic and evolving world
Niall Whiteford (AMNH)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)
Jan 21
16:30
Massive stars evolution: Progresses and challenges
Dr Sylvia Ekstroem (University of Geneva)
Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium
Philosophenweg 12, Main Lecture hall (gHS)

Recent ZAH publications
1/2025
Chen, Mandy C.; Chen, Hsiao-Wen et al. (inc. Bertemes, Caroline; Wylezalek, Dominika; Rupke, David S. N.)
Resolving Turbulence Drivers in Two Luminous Obscured Quasars with JWST/NIRSpec Integral Field Unit
ApJ 978, L18(2025)

1/2025
Shi, Jiahan; Bartelmann, Matthias et al. (inc. Dullemond, Cornelis P.)
Kinetic field theory applied to planetesimal formation I: freely streaming dust particles
MNRAS 536, 1625(2025)

1/2025
Whitworth, David J.; Smith, Rowan J. et al. (inc. Klessen, Ralf S.; Brucy, Noé; Glover, Simon C. O.)
Do stars still form in molecular gas within CO-dark dwarf galaxies?
MNRAS 536, 2936(2025)