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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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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Action! NSF–DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory Begins Capturing the Greatest Cosmic Movie Ever Made

2026. june 30.

The 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time has officially started, marking the beginning of a new era in astronomy and astrophysics

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Quasars as cosmic rulers

Sandor Frey, senior research fellow

2026. june 29.

A classical cosmological test has been revisited using a much larger dataset to probe the geometry of the Universe.

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ESA’s Euclid captures the Milky Way’s crowded heart

Euclid Consortium

2026. june 24.

The largest and most detailed photo ever made of our Milky Way galaxy’s centre in visible light is revealed today by the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission.

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This is how a giant galaxy formed more than 12 billion years ago

Sandor Frey, senior research fellow

2026. june 18.

An international team of researchers – including Hungarian scientists – has examined the internal structure of an extremely distant radio galaxy in unprecedented detail.

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International Conference on the Eruptive Phases of Young Stars at the HUN-REN CSFK Konkoly Observatory

Péter Ábrahám, research advisor

2026. june 09.

At the invitation of the HUN-REN CSFK Konkoly Space Astronomy, Planet and Star Formation Research Group, scientists studying the dynamic phases of star formation came to Budapest

Standing in support with the Director General of the research centre

2026. april 27.

We support efforts aimed at rethinking the operation of the research network, giving greater weight to professional considerations, and making decisions based on the involvement of the research community.

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The number of near-Earth asteroids discovered at the research institute since 2020

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The total amount of research grants obtained by the astronomical institute since 2016 (in thousand euros)

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