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The 2023 MERAC Prize for the Best Early Career Researcher is awarded to Dylan Nelson (ZAH/ITA) for his leading role in computational astrophysics. (2023/04/05)

The 2023 MERAC Prize for the Best Early Career Researcher is awarded to Dominika Wylezalek (ZAH/ARI) for her studies of supermassive black holes. (2023/04/05)

The new “Ute and Roland Wielen Foundation Fund” shall support science, research and teaching at Heidelberg University, primarily at ARI and ITA. (2023/03/16)

Heading Heidelberg University in future will be molecular biologist Prof. Dr Frauke Melchior. She will take up her new office as of 1 October this year. (2023/03/09)

Data obtained within five years with the eponymous spectrograph at Calar-Alto Observatory have already led to the discovery of 59 partly habitable new exoplanets. (2023/02/22)

Using Webb's image clarity at infrared wavelengths, scientists discover missing pieces of the star formation puzzle. Their findings are now published in a collection of research papers, also with first authors from ZAH. (2023/02/16)

May 30 16:00	How to grow a galactic disk (or two) Professor Florent Renaud (Lund Observatory, Sweden) Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium Philosophenweg 12, Main Lecture Theatre (gHS)
Jun 01 11:15	Temperature inhomogeneities cause the abundance discrepancy in H II regions Jose Eduardo Mendez Delgado (ARI) ARI Institute Colloquium ARI, Moenchhofstrasse 12-14, Seminarraum 1.OG
Jun 02 11:00	TBD José Eduardo Méndez Delgado (ARI) Königstuhl Kolloquium Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)

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Welcome to the Center for Astronomy of Heidelberg University

Dylan Nelson receives the 2023 MERAC Award for New Technologies

Dominika Wylezalek receives the 2023 MERAC Award in Observational Astrophysics

Ute and Roland Wielen Foundation Fund established

Frauke Melchior becomes new Rector of Universität Heidelberg

Landessternwarte Königstuhl celebrates success of the CARMENES project

Webb telescope finds pieces of the star formation puzzle

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