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The Department of Astrophysics currently seeks to fill a PhD position. Submit your application until 15 August 2026!
New radio observations reveal hidden structures around the Orion Nebula: An international team led by Juan Diego Soler at the University of Vienna...
Tim Bliek and Vera Flasch from our admin-team have received the UNIVIE Green University Award 2026 for their Night Train Support project, which...
Katja Fahrion, a Marie Curie Fellow at the Department of Astrophysics, has been awarded an ASTRA Grant from the FWF for her project “Mapping the...
An international research collaboration between the University of Vienna and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the United States has used...
Join this public lecture by Emily Hunt and learn more about how Gaia satellite data are transforming our understanding of star clusters and why a more...
