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06FEB 2025
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Stray supernova remnants uncovered in our cosmic neighbor
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 Cloud, scientists from the Remeis Observatory were able to confirm what seemed […]
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24JAN 2025
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A new look at our founder’s supernova
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 supernova S Andromedae (also referred to […]
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09JAN 2025
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Mapping the stellar graveyard in our neighbor galaxy
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, co-developed by the Remeis Observatory and launched in […]
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16OCT 2024
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Remeis Open Day 2024
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 our telescopes, if the weather […]
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23AUG 2024
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Quantifying Anisotropies on the Sphere
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 powerful shape descriptors called Minkowski tensors to the spherical […]
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19JUL 2024
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Walter-Benjamin Fellowship for Martin Mayer
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, supernova remnants and neutron stars. He was previously a PhD student at Max-Planck-Institute for […]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, supernova remnants and neutron stars. He was previously a PhD student at Max-Planck-Institute for […]
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