The Laboratory Astrophysics Division (LAD) of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) announced Dr. Natalie Hell, a former PhD student at the Dr. Karl Remeis-Observatory, to receive its 2020 Dissertation Prize. Natalie got this prize because of her thesis “Benchmarking Transition Energies and ... 

In his Master’s thesis, Steven Hämmerich worked on blue horizontal branch stars as part of Ulrich Heber’s working group. He is also part of our Social Media team. 

Melanie Lang is a Master student at our Observatory and works on eROSITA simulations. She is part of Manami Sasaki’s Multiwavelength working group. 

Without a doubt the Dr. Karl Remeis-Sternwarte is a special place of the FAU. In the series “Besondere Orte der FAU” the university of Erlangen-Nuremberg presents its Astronomical Institute located in Bamberg. 

The publication of Chinese astronomers about a black hole as massive as 70 solar masses immediately triggered theoretical investigations as well as additional observations by other astrophysicists, because theoretically stellar black holes have masses of about ten times that of our Sun. The Astronom... 

Watch #WhoIsDrRemeis Episode 2! Get to know Konstantin Haubner, who is a Bachelor student of Manami Sasaki and works on particle acceleration in interstellar shock waves. 

Every month, we publish an interview belonging to our #WhoIsDrRemeis feature here and on our social media channels. See below what’s new! 

The first episode of #WhoIsDrRemeis is now online! Each month, there will be an episode introducing one member of the Remeis observatory. The first member to be introduced is Maximilian Lorenz. He is a graduate student and working with Prof. Jörn Wilms on simulations for the ATHENA X-ray mission, wh... 

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