LSST First Look images

On 23 June 2025, the breathtaking first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's LSST sky survey programme were published. Wander through the billions of pixels with us!

Maria Lugaro becomes member of the Academy

A historic moment: for the first time in its 200 years of existence, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences has elected a woman astronomer as one of its members.

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Csilla Kalup among the Forbes 30/30

Our graduate student researcher has been included in the 2025 edition of Forbes magazine's 30 successful Hungarians under 30 list.

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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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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.

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Gemini Observatory confirms predictions made by Konkoly researchers on the existence of Betelgeuse's companion star

CSFK

2025. july 29.

Our researchers predicted last year that a companion star might be orbiting the red supergiant. After several attempts to detect it, an independent research team has now succeeded in observing the celestial body using direct imaging.

#New Discovery

János Kelemen (1951–2025)

Szabó Róbert

2025. july 20.

János Kelemen, astronomer, our former colleague passed away in early July.

LSST First Look Images

Szabó Róbert

2025. july 12.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory features the world's largest camera and will continuously monitor the southern sky for ten years, capturing colour, time-lapse movie of any changes. Researchers from our Institute are also involved in the sky survey.

Norton Szabó at the Hungarian Science Meeting in the Hague

Szabó Róbert

2025. july 10.

Norton O. Szabó, a research assistant of our Institute, represented the researchers of the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Network at the Embassy of Hungary in the Hague on 19 June 2025 at the opening of the Hungarian Science Meeting.

Great success for our students at the 2025 OTDK

CSFK

2025. may 17.

The success of the observatory's research assistant program is reflected in the 12 awards in the Physics section of the OTDK, several of which were won by Bachelor students. The Science Faculty of ELTE also awarded prizes to our students.