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The Department of Astrophysics currently seeks to fill a postdoctoral position. Applications can be submitted until 5 January 2025.
Sensational images of Saturn, Jupiter and much more taken with the 150-year-old telescope at the observatory of the University of Vienna.
The world's largest optical telescope, the 40-meter ELT, will be starting operations in 2028 in Chile. The Department of Astrophysics is involved in...
For the documentary Karl Hohenlohe visited the University Observatory and spoke to Professor Franz Kerschbaum.
To celebrate 10 years of research operations of the Austrian-Canadian-Polish small satellite project "BRITE-Constellation", an international...
On November 4, 2024, a contract was signed to fund the conceptual study of a new telescope, the Wide Field Spectroscopic Telescope. The Department of...
