On 13 July 2019, a proton-M rocket successfully launched the Spectrum-X-Gamma satellite with the German eROSITA instrument. As of 17:00 CEST, the systems on Spectrum-X-Gamma appear to be nominal and the temperatures of the eROSITA instrument are also in the nominal range.
An international consortium led by FAU astronomers discovered three hyper-velocity stars (HVS), which survived supernova explosions. These “Zombie” stars could give clues concerning how the chemical elements are created and distributed in the Universe. Not only a new class of HVS has been dis...
Are you prepared for the launch of eROSITA in July 2019? We are glad to provide you the Spektr-RG paper model. This model is in the scale of 1/48 and shows great detail of the eROSITA and the ART-XC X-ray telescopes. This paper model kit provides you with all parts...
On Friday June 21st 2019 a proton M rocket will be launched at Baikonur, on board the SRG satellite. Part of this satellite is the eROSITA X-ray telescope developed by German an Russian scientists. The Astronomical Institute of the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg is greatly involved in the development of the...
Last week the 16th INTEGRAL/BART Workshop took place in Carlsbad (Czech Republic). This conference is dedicated to high energy astrophysics and supporting ground-based experiments and partly organized by the Dr. Karl Remeis-Sternwarte. Four members gave interesting talks on their topics. The partici...
In the context of the digitisation project of astronomical plates funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) entitled “Digitalisierung astronomischer Fotoplatten und ihre Integration in das internationale Virtual Observatory”, a consortium of astronomers from the Hamburger Sternwarte, the L...
An international scientific team, including Prof. Dr. Manami Sasaki from Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory, Bamberg, and the Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics has used NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory – one of the most sophisticated X-ray observatories built to date – to reveal how very high...
If you look up at the sky on a clear night you can see stars, lots of stars. Astronomical recordings from observatories let you see them in much greater detail. The Dr. Remeis Observatory owns approximately 40,000 historical photographic plates, a genuine treasure trove for anyone interested in star...
The FRANCI (FRanconian Astronomy Neighborhood Collaboration Incentive) meeting is an annual one-day meeting of the Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory and ECAP (University of Erlangen) and the Chair of Astronomy (University of Wuerzburg) since 2013. The goal of this meeting is to bring together the differen...
When a massive star ends its life it explodes in a very energetic explosion called a supernova. The ejected stellar matter expands spherically and is in some cases also collimated into jets. If a jet points to us, the explosion is observed as a very intense flash of gamma-ray emission...
