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• Telescope on the rooftop - Virtual tour

  26.04.2021

  Unfortunately, the pandemic prevents us from meeting and observing together. Especially the telescope on the rooftop of the Argelander Institute for Astronomy would be great to use (technical information here). Our institute staff has now made a virtual tour of the Cassegrain telescope for students.

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• Longest intergalactic gas filament discovered

  17.12.2020

  Study led by the University of Bonn confirms models on the evolution of our Universe

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• Argelander Fellowship 2021

  30.09.2020

  The Argelander Institute for Astronomy (AIfA) at the University of Bonn invites applications for the Argelander Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, which honors Friedrich Wilhelm August Argelander (1799-1875) and his first modern sky survey.

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• How galaxies have produced their stars

  29.09.2020

  An international team of astronomers, including members of the Argelander Institute, used the ALMA observatory to track down the fuel for star formation - molecular hydrogen gas - in the Hubble Ultra-Deep Field, one of the best studied regions of the sky.

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• Our deepest view of the X-ray sky

  19.06.2020

  The eROSITA telescope has provided a new, sharp view of hot and energetic processes across the Universe

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