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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Astronomers uncover the engine behind the most powerful stellar flares in the Kepler field

CSFK

2026. october 25.

A new study led by researchers at the HUN-REN Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences (HUN-REN CSFK) has revealed what makes a distant red giant star the most explosively active in the entire Kepler field -

#New Discovery

Konkoly Observatory Hosted Second MATISSE Science Days in Budapest

Kóspál Ágnes, tudományos tanácsadó

2026. october 09.

100 astronomers, engineers, and students from 18 countries convened to review the latest high-angular resolution results from ESO's mid-infrared interferometric instrument

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.

#New Discovery

Asztrofizikai és Geokémiai Laboratórium

(Kereszturi Ákos)

Nap- és csillagaktivitás kutatócsoport

(SOLSTART, Kővári Zsolt)

Konkoly Űrcsillagászat, Bolygó- és Csillagkeletkezési Csoport

(Ábrahám Péter)

Extragalaktikus Asztrofizika Kutatócsoport

(Vinkó József)

Csillagpulzáció, Űrfotometria, Exobolygók Kutatócsoport (SPEX), valamint MTA CSFK Lendület Lokális Kozmológia Kutatócsoport

(Szabó Róbert)

Naprendszerkutató Csoport

(Kiss Csaba)

“LAND”: Lendület AGB Nuclei and Dust group & “RADIOSTAR”: Radioactivities from Stars to Solar Systems

(Maria Lugaro)

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The number of researchers working at the institute

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

The number of published articles in the last 15 years

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

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