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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On November 2, 2019, the Dr. Remeis-Sternwarte hosted the 16th meeting of the VDS-working group ‘history of astronomy’ (VdS-Fachgruppe Geschichte der Astronomie). The 46 participants discussed various aspects about the history of astronomy. For further information visit: http://geschicht... 

On 22 October 2019, the first-light images of the eROSITA telescope taken with all seven X-ray telescope modules were presented to the public. The first combined X-ray images show our neighboring galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (shown in figure), and a pair of interacting clusters of galaxies at ... 

Come and visit us on on October 26, when we open the doors to our observatory for interested people of every age! You’ll be able to explore the historic building, learn about Supernovae, black holes and more, and look to the sky through our telescopes.   

Led by astronomers from FAU, an international consortium has recently discovered a new high-velocity star (HVS). These are stars which move at great speed through the Milky Way, sometimes travelling so fast that they may eventually leave our galaxy. Until now, scientists have not yet been entirely s...