Chariklo's changing rings

Csilla Kalup and Csaba Kiss participated in the analysis and explanation of the JWST observations.

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Réka Könyes-Tóth awarded the Junior Prima Prize

Another of our colleagues receives the prestigious award in the Hungarian Science category.

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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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James Webb Space Telescope discovers that Chariklo’s invisible rings are changing

Csilla Kalup, Csaba Kiss

2026. september 09.

As part of an international team led by the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC), Hungarian astronomers demonstrate for the first time that the two rings of this small Solar System body are changing in opposite directions.

#New Discovery

Inside the Cosmic Dust Trap: ALMA Unveils Secrets of Potential Planet Nursery around Young Star

Ágnes Kóspál, scientific advisor

2026. august 18.

An international team of Chinese and Hungarian astronomers has unveiled detailed new observations of a protoplanetary disk around the star HD 34282.

#New Discovery

A glimpse into a system formed by the collision of three galaxies

Sandor Frey, senior research fellow

2026. july 20.

Archival observations from international radio telescope arrays have revealed compelling evidence for a hidden black hole in the luminous infrared galaxy UGC 2369S.

#New Discovery

Radio outburst of a nearby black hole could help us better understand the early Universe

Sandor Frey, senior research fellow

2026. july 07.

A supermassive black hole at the centre of an active galactic nucleus in our cosmic “neighborhood” is growing at an exceptionally rapid rate while producing a radio outburst unlike anything previously observed.

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Euclid Space Telescope Shatters Cosmic Record: Discovery of the Two Most Distant Quasars Ever Observed

ESA

2026. july 06.

Today, the Euclid Consortium announces the discovery of 31 new quasars at redshifts between 6.6 and 7.8, including the two most distant quasars ever observed.