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. 

Ole König works on dense objects: neutron stars! He is a PhD candidate of the X-ray group led by Prof. Jörn Wilms. 

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...