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Dylan Nelson receives the 2023 MERAC Award for New Technologies

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)

Dominika Wylezalek receives the 2023 MERAC Award in Observational Astrophysics

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)

Ute and Roland Wielen Foundation Fund established

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)

Frauke Melchior becomes new Rector of Universität Heidelberg

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)

Landessternwarte Königstuhl celebrates success of the CARMENES project

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)

Webb telescope finds pieces of the star formation puzzle

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)

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Next Astro colloquia
Jun 06
16:00		Star cluster formation, feedback and evolution across cosmic times
Professor Angela Adamo (Stockholm University)
Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium
Philosophenweg 12, Main Lecture hall (gHS)
Jun 09
11:00		TBD
Paul Molliere (MPIA)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)
Jun 09
11:00		Trace gases and weather: exoplanet atmospheres 
with JWST and the ELTs

Paul Molliere (MPIA)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)

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Astro & Physics talks in HD

Heidelberg Physics Seminar and Talks Organizer (HePhysTo)

Recent ZAH publications
6/2023
Sikora, James; Rowe, Jason et al. (inc. Stürmer, Julian)
Updated Planetary Mass Constraints of the Young V1298 Tau System Using MAROON-X
AJ 165, 250(2023)

6/2023
Reissl, Stefan; Meehan, Paul; Klessen, Ralf S.
The mechanical alignment of dust (MAD). I. The spin-up process of fractal grains by a gas-dust drift
A&A 674, A47(2023)

7/2023
Werner, S. V.; Hatch, N. A. et al. (inc. Wylezalek, D.)
Intracluster light in the core of z 2 galaxy proto-clusters
MNRAS 523, 91(2023)

more publications ...