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Gaia on 3sat: TV-Report with Stefan Jordan

TV broadcaster "3sat" has released an interesting TV-report on the Gaia mission. Stefan Jordan explains some highlight of the first science that has been performed with the Gaia Data Release 2, published on April 25, 2018. (25.2.2019)

Tidal Tails – The Beginning Of The End Of An Open Star Cluster

Heidelberg researchers verify this phenomenon using Gaia data from the Hyades. (15.2.2019)

ALMA provides unprecedented views of the birth of planets

The first survey of protoplanetary disks using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) revealed unknown structures which likely are the sites for planets to be formed. ZAH is one of the leading partners of the campaign. (12.12.2018)

CARMENES detects loss of exoplanet atmosphere

CARMENES detects atmospheric loss of helium from exoplanet WASP-69b in the form of an extended comet-like tail. (6.12.2018)

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Colloquia at ZAH
Mar 29
15:00		 TBA
Paola Di Matteo (GEPI/Obs. de Paris)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)
Apr 05
15:00		 TBA
Francesco Santoro (MPIA)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)
Apr 12
15:00		 TBA
Rolf-Peter Kudritzki (IFA,USM)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)

Recent publications
4/2019
Gaur, Haritma; Gupta, Alok C. et al. (inc. Kurtanidze, O. M.)
Optical variability of TeV blazars on long time-scales
MNRAS 484, 5633(2019)

4/2019
Kruijssen, J. M. D.; Dale, J. E. et al. (inc. Petkova, M. A.; Jeffreson, S. M. R.)
The dynamical evolution of molecular clouds near the Galactic Centre - II. Spatial structure and kinematics of simulated clouds
MNRAS 484, 5734(2019)

4/2019
Prudil, Z.; Dékány, I. et al. (inc. Grebel, E. K.)
On the Oosterhoff dichotomy in the Galactic bulge: I. Spatial distribution
MNRAS 484, 4833(2019)