GEOASTRONOMY: Bridging Earth and the Cosmos to Understand Rocky Exoplanets. The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded an ERC Synergy Grant for the groundbreaking „GEOASTRONOMY” project, an ambitious scientific endeavor that seeks to reveal the chemical foundations of rocky exoplanets around Sun-like stars.

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EUCLID's new images are out

ESA's Euclid celebrates first science with sparkling cosmic views

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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Prima Primissima

László L. Kiss, physicist, astronomer and Director General of the CSFK won the 2023 Prima Primissima Award in the Hungarian Science category. Congratulations!

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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.

Queloz

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.

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Starspot activity of the red giant XX Trianguli indicate non-periodic, chaotic dynamo

CSFK

2024. december 04.

Spectacular movie showing 16 years of starspot evolution.

#New Discovery

Nuclear physicists and astrophysicists have measured the time scale of the Sun's birth

2024. november 14.

Have you ever wondered how long it took for our Sun to form within its stellar nursery?

#New Discovery

GEOASTRONOMY: Bridging Earth and the Cosmos to Understand Rocky Exoplanets

2024. november 05.

A total of €571 million in funding has been awarded to fifty-seven research groups to tackle some of the most complex scientific problems, spanning a wide range of disciplines.

#Our Research

Betelgeuse and Betelbuddy? Red supergiant in Orion likely has a stellar companion

CSFK / Jane Beaufore

2024. october 21.

New results from HUN-REN CSFK researchers and their US colleagues suggest that the six-year light variations of Betelgeuse may be caused by a previously unknown companion star.

Changes to the research assistant program of the observatory

Konkoly Observatory

2024. september 16.

We are changing the timetable for our highly successful program, including the next call for applications. Applications for the next round will be open by the end of the year and interviews will take place in January.