02 February 2023. - The English mathematician and theoretical physicist Sir Roger Penrose (University of Oxford) gave a lecture at the Konkoly Thege Miklós Institute of Astronomy of the Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences
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.
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.
ESA's Gaia mission released a goldmine of knowledge about our galaxy and beyond, with the active involvement of eight researchers from the Observatory.
The consortium meeting of ESA’s exoplanet atmosphere characterizing Ariel mission attracted 300 participants. The meeting was held in Budapest between 24-27 October 2023. One of the main organizers was Konkoly Observatory.
ESA's Gaia mission released a goldmine of knowledge about our galaxy and beyond. Four hundred scientists worked on the mission’s latest ‘focused product release’ (FPR), with the active involvement of eight researchers from the Observatory.
The Hungarian Academy of Sciences announced the winners of the 2023 Lendület research grant at the end of September. One of the 19 awardees is our colleague Maria Lugaro, who won the Academy's prestigious grant for the second time after 2017.
Measuring the masses of stars is not always easy, and for the RR Lyrae-type variable stars, in particular, there has been no good way to do this. Our researchers are the first to determine the masses of such stars using seismic models.
