The first all-sky survey by the eROSITA X-ray telescope revealed the entire X-ray Universe with unprecedented detail in June 2020. The study of one particularly interesting feature, the large-scale “eROSITA bubbles” in the halo of the Milky Way, has now been published in Nature. What has...
This year the Christmas lecture of the Physics department cannot take place, but we can share the recording of our Christmas lecture, which took place in 2016. Enjoy this fun video (in German!), in which we investigate the myth of the star of Betlehem, from your homes 🙂
The Ohm prize of the department of Physics is awarded each year for the best theses. This year, two of our Master students were awarded with the prize by the Ohm prize committee and the whole observatory congratulates both for their honored achievement. Caroline Collischon wrote her Master...
This month’s #WhoIsDrRemeis episode introduces PhD student Dominic Bernreuther, who works on extended Galactic structures in the group of Prof. Manami Sasaki. Using Machine Learning, he is writing a software to find these structures automatically. At the Remeis Observatory, he is part of the S...
Simon Kreuzer is a PhD candidate in the group of Prof. Ulrich Heber and works, among other things, on so-called hypervelocity stars. What those are and what else he is interested in, you can find out in our new #WhoIsDrRemeis Interview.
Javier García, who has been a Humboldt Fellow at our observatory since 2017, has been awarded the ‘2021 Early Career Award’ by the American Astronomical Society. His main focus is to understand the X-ray radiation around accreting compact objects, such as black holes and neutron stars. W...
Philipp Weber is a Master student in the group of Prof. Wilms and he works on eROSITA. He is both a passionate programmer and astrophotographer.
Binary stars are well known to astrophysicists. One stellar double-act in particular has drawn their attention, as part of the X-ray radiation that binary star systems usually emit is missing, and the x-rays it did emit seemed to have strange properties. A research team led by FAU observed a binary....
The eROSITA telescope has finished its first sweep across the sky and presents us the deepest image of the X-ray that humanity has ever seen. This map is about 4 times deeper than what has been seen by the ROSAT all-sky survey 30 years ago and contains over 1 million hot objects,...
Jonas G.-R. is a Master student working on detecting shell-like structures with deep learning algorithms. He is part of Prof. Manami Sasakis Multi-wavelength Astronomy group and went to Australia for a few weeks in 2019 to learn radio data analysis.
