Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory is deeply saddened by the unexpected passing of our dear friend, colleague, and mentor Dr. Katja Pottschmidt on Tuesday, June 17 2025. Born May 31, 1971, in Aurich, Germany, into a military family (her father was in the German air force), Katja grew up in Aurich...
Astronomers from the Remeis Observatory have studied the X-ray emission from a massive young star cluster that acts as a Galactic particle accelerator Our home galaxy, and consequently Earth too, is submerged in a continuous stream of charged particles known as cosmic rays. These particles can reach...
Remeis Researchers have discovered the leftovers of two stellar explosions in the outskirts of our neighbor galaxy, using ESA’s XMM-Newton satellite. When the European Space Agency’s XMM-Newton pointed its telescope at two unidentified sources of light in the outskirts of the Large Magellanic ...
Researchers at the Remeis-Observatory have discovered X-rays from a star which exploded more than 130 years ago. Ernst Hartwig was a German astronomer who became the first director of the Dr Karl Remeis Observatory when it was founded in 1889. Professionally, he became known for the discovery of the...
Astronomers from the Remeis Observatory Bamberg have published the most detailed X-ray map of exploded stars in our neighbor galaxy to date. The work led by Federico Zangrandi, PhD student in the multiwavelength group led by Prof. Manami Sasaki, used data by the SRG/eROSITA telescope. This telescope...
After a five-year break, it is once again time for the Open Day at the Remeis Observatory on Saturday, October 26. Between 3 pm and midnight, visitors will be able to enjoy numerous activities and talks related to the research at Remeis, including the possibility of observing the sky through...
Researchers led by PhD student Caroline Collischon in the group of Manami Sasaki at the Remeis Observatory have introduced a new way of describing shapes in the night sky. In their recent paper on “Morphometry on the sphere” published in Communications Physics, they adapted a set of powe...
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has awarded Martin Mayer a research fellowship within their Walter-Benjamin Programme. Dr. Martin Mayer, who has been in the Multiwavelength group at the Remeis Observatory since October 2023, is a postdoctoral researcher, working on hot interstellar medium,...
Since 2021, the DFG research unit “eRO-STEP” (eROSITA studies of Stellar Endpoints) has been investigating astrophysical sources of X-ray emission, focusing in particular on compact objects (white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes) and hot gas in the interstellar medium. The SRG/eRO...
The third brightest star in the constellation Columba (Gamma Columbae), about 900 light years from Earth kept a sectret – which has now been disclosed by Dr. Andreas Irrgang from the Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory in Bamberg in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Norbert Przybilla, a former Remeis astro...
