Tuesday, 27. March 2012
We welcome at our institute: Dr. Miguel Verdugo...
... a new postdoc in Bodo Ziegler's group
Wednesday, 29. February 2012
Our guest professor this summer term: PD Dr. Isabelle Cherchneff
Her course will be on "Physics and Chemistry of interstellar and circumstellar environments"
Monday, 16. January 2012
From the Formation of Stars to the Origin of Life
Inaugural lecture by Prof. Manuel Güdel (Main Building of the University, 'Großer Festsaal', 6 p.m.)
Tuesday, 3. January 2012
An apprentice supercomputer
On December 10th Mr. Florian Szabo reached his goal: he created from
scratch a high performance computer cluster (supercomputer)
successfully.
Sunday, 1. January 2012
"Pathways to Habitability"
Our institute will coordinate and carry out the FWF-funded National Research Network "Pathways to Habitability: From Disks to Active Stars, Planets to Life"
Monday, 12. December 2011
ESO's VLT has found the fastest rotating star
The massive bright young star lies in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Ines Brott is co-author of the reference paper on "The VLT-FLAMES Tarantula Survey".
Thursday, 8. December 2011
Viennese astronomers publish in "Nature"
Core-rotation-rate in red-giant stars revealed by P. Beck, Th. Kallinger et al.
Wednesday, 7. December 2011
A Christmas Tree in Space
Around Christmas the four satellites MOST, CoRoT, Spitzer and Chandra observe the "Christmas Tree Cluster" NGC 2264 for one month continuously.
Sunday, 13. November 2011
Jupiter with unusual dark spots
Image taken by Michael Grünanger at the 12inch refractor of our observatory, as a result of a longstanding cooperation between the institute and the "West Dome Amateur Group".
Friday, 7. October 2011
From darkness to light: the origins of stars and planets
Inaugural lecture by Prof. Joao Alves (Main Building of the University, 'Großer Festsaal', 6 p.m.)
