László L. Kiss, physicist, astronomer and Director General of the CSFK won the 2023 Prima Primissima Award in the Hungarian Science category. Congratulations!
ESA's Gaia mission released a goldmine of knowledge about our galaxy and beyond, with the active involvement of eight researchers from the Observatory.
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.
Crystalline silicates formed during an earlier eruption of the young star EX Lupi have been spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope. They were hot crystals when they were formed, and no information about them was available for 15 years.
Wading through the wealth of data from ESA’s Gaia mission, scientists found a massive, dormant black hole. With a mass of nearly 33 times that of the Sun, this is the largest black hole of stellar origin known so far within the Milky Way.
At least one in a dozen stars show evidence of planetary ingestion according to a paper published in Nature today, and co-authored by Konkoly researcher Dr. Meridith Joyce.
The European Space Agency has presented an analysis of more than 68,000 articles on astronomy, planetary science and heliophysics, which shows that Hungarian astronomers have the best conversion rate of all ESA members relative to financial contributions.
Krisztián Sárneczky has discovered another tiny asteroid heading straight for Earth with the Schmidt telescope in Piszkéstető. The demise of 2024 BX1 was observed later that night above Europe.