Hungarian astronomers the most succesful in Europe

Relative to financial conributions to ESA.

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Asteroid impact

Our colleague, Krisztián Sárneczky, has discovered his third asteroid to hit Earth. The tiny object was destroyed in the atmosphere.

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Prima Primissima

László L. Kiss, physicist, astronomer and Director General of the CSFK won the 2023 Prima Primissima Award in the Hungarian Science category. Congratulations!

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Gaia FPR

ESA's Gaia mission released a goldmine of knowledge about our galaxy and beyond, with the active involvement of eight researchers from the Observatory.

Queloz

On 10 May, our Institute hosted the Swiss astronomer-astrophysicist Didier Queloz at the Hungarian Astronomy and Earth Sciences Research Centre. His visit was a historic landmark.

EX Lupi

Crystalline silicates formed during an earlier eruption of the young star EX Lupi have been spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope. They were hot crystals when they were formed, and no information about them was available for 15 years.

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Iván Almár chosen to be a member of astronautics Hall of Fame

CSFK

2024. april 24.

The International Astronautical Federation (IAF) is the world's largest international space research organisation.

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Sleeping giant surprises Gaia scientists

CSFK

2024. april 22.

Wading through the wealth of data from ESA’s Gaia mission, scientists found a massive, dormant black hole. With a mass of nearly 33 times that of the Sun, this is the largest black hole of stellar origin known so far within the Milky Way.

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Twin stars reveal planet-eating habits

CSFK

2024. march 20.

At least one in a dozen stars show evidence of planetary ingestion according to a paper published in Nature today, and co-authored by Konkoly researcher Dr. Meridith Joyce.

Hungarian astronomers are the most successful in Europe, ESA analysis reveals

CSFK

2024. february 28.

The European Space Agency has presented an analysis of more than 68,000 articles on astronomy, planetary science and heliophysics, which shows that Hungarian astronomers have the best conversion rate of all ESA members relative to financial contributions.

162 minutes from discovery until impact

László Molnár

2024. january 23.

Krisztián Sárneczky has discovered another tiny asteroid heading straight for Earth with the Schmidt telescope in Piszkéstető. The demise of 2024 BX1 was observed later that night above Europe.

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Students on the stage: TDK 2023

László Molnár

2023. december 19.

The observatory hosted the ELTE Astronomy TDK conference the second year in a row, at which 17 undergraduate students presented their scientific results.

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