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A team of researchers of the Department of Astrophysics of the University of Vienna is taking part in it.

Study (EN)
 

Die two Teaching Awards of the Faculty go to Oliver Hahn, Agata Wislocka und Bodo Ziegler for the course Cosmology and to Janek Walk and Philipp Marr...

Event
 

On 13 June, Erich Meyer will talk about "Der gesamte Sternenhimmel als großes Fotoprojekt".

Visiting (EN)
 

From May to August 2025, Sergey Khoperskov from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam is Ida Pfeiffer Professor at the Faculty of Earth...

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The contribution of the University of Vienna to the payload for the ARRAKIHS mission will be the Auto-Guiding System for the two instruments on board....

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... on the successful defense of his dissertation on "Exploring the Dark Universe: constraining the scalar field dark matter model and explaining the...