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,...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
