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...
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...
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...
