With the launch of Space Warps, a new citizen science project on the Zooniverse platform, you can now join in the search to find rare and elusive strong gravitational lenses
An international research team including Ágnes Kóspál from Konkoly Observatory has created the first detailed map of the molecular layers within a planet-forming disk – the flattened cloud of gas and dust surrounding a young star, where planets are born.
The Ritchey-Chrétien-Coudé (RCC) telescope at the Piszkéstető Mountain Station, with a 102 cm primary mirror and an effective focal length of 13.5 meters, is currently the largest telescope in Hungary.
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.