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The nebulae of binary star systems
In binary star systems, things rarely remain peaceful for long. At some point, one star starts to steal matter from the other. The result is often widespread destruction. And a colourful nebula. The Hubble Space Telescope never ceases to delight us with...
Bessel Prize for Benjamin Joachimi: Support for international collaboration in cosmology
The Faculty of Physics and Astronomy is delighted to announce that Prof. Benjamin Joachimi has been awarded the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Prize. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation awards the prize annually to around 20 internationally recognised scientists...
First images of the Vera Rubin Observatory live at the Bochum Planetarium
On Monday, June 23, at 4:30 p.m., all interested parties are invited to the Bochum Planetarium to attend the publication of the first images from the Rubin Observatory, which is going into operation in Chile. Prof. Hendrik Hildebrandt from the Ruhr University, who...
Kilo-Degree Survey Confirms Standard Model of Cosmology
The Kilo-Degree Survey has taken images of 41 million galaxies in its eight years of observation. This image shows a section of the data set. © Konrad Kuijken and the KiDS team. Based on HEALPix sky tessellation An international research team has analyzed data from 41...
Tag der Astronomie an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Das AIRUB lädt alle Interessierten herzlich zum Tag der Astronomie an der RUB ein. Am Samstag, den 29. März startet um 11:19 Uhr die partielle Sonnenfinsternis. Bei uns am Campus Observatorium habt ihr die Möglichkeit, diese live mit unseren Sonnenteleskopen zu...