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24JAN 2025
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A new look at our founder’s supernova
Researchers at the Remeis-Observatory have discovered X-rays from a star which exploded more than 130 years ago. Ernst Hartwig was a German astronomer who became the first director of the Dr Karl Remeis Observatory when it was founded in 1889. Professionally, he became known for the discovery of the supernova S Andromedae (also referred to […]
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09JAN 2025
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Mapping the stellar graveyard in our neighbor galaxy
Astronomers from the Remeis Observatory Bamberg have published the most detailed X-ray map of exploded stars in our neighbor galaxy to date. The work led by Federico Zangrandi, PhD student in the multiwavelength group led by Prof. Manami Sasaki, used data by the SRG/eROSITA telescope. This telescope, co-developed by the Remeis Observatory and launched in […]
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19JUL 2024
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Walter-Benjamin Fellowship for Martin Mayer
The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has awarded Martin Mayer a research fellowship within their Walter-Benjamin Programme. Dr. Martin Mayer, who has been in the Multiwavelength group at the Remeis Observatory since October 2023, is a postdoctoral researcher, working on hot interstellar medium, supernova remnants and neutron stars. He was previously a PhD student at Max-Planck-Institute for […]The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) has awarded Martin Mayer a research fellowship within their Walter-Benjamin Programme. Dr. Martin Mayer, who has been in the Multiwavelength group at the Remeis Observatory since October 2023, is a postdoctoral researcher, working on hot interstellar medium, supernova remnants and neutron stars. He was previously a PhD student at Max-Planck-Institute for […]
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25MAR 2024
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Funding for eRO-STEP research unit extended
Since 2021, the DFG research unit “eRO-STEP” (eROSITA studies of Stellar Endpoints) has been investigating astrophysical sources of X-ray emission, focusing in particular on compact objects (white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes) and hot gas in the interstellar medium. The SRG/eROSITA X-ray telescope allows for carrying out systematic surveys across the whole sky, and […]
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10NOV 2022
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When A Star Sheds Its Shells
The third brightest star in the constellation Columba (Gamma Columbae), about 900 light years from Earth kept a sectret – which has now been disclosed by Dr. Andreas Irrgang from the Dr. Karl Remeis Observatory in Bamberg in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Norbert Przybilla, a former Remeis astronomer, now at Innsbruck University. The team discovered […]
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06JUL 2022
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Astronomical Plate Archive: Ready for Science in the Virtual Obsevatory
German observatories host a heritage of astronomical observations stored on historical photographic plates that show the starry sky (see Fig. 1). Together with the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam and the Universities of Hamburg and Tartu (Estonia), scientists at the Dr. Remeis-Sternwarte have digitised the astronomical images and published them online – after ten years, […]
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