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On the 8th of March we celebrate International Women's Day. The University of Vienna is happy to contribute to this and promote this day of action.
How do planetary systems form? And what do debris discs have to do with it? Nicole Pawellek will be unravelling these questions on 8th March 2024.
Call 2024 is open: All students at our Faculty as well as students of two Postgraduate-programmes are invited to submit the best photos of their...
On February 15th, 2024, SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket with the space probe “Intuitive Machines IM-1” as payload bound to the moon....
The Radcliffe Wave is moving! A research team with the participation of João Alves (Astrophysics, University of Vienna) and colleagues from Harvard...
We would like to remember our colleague Thomas Posch, who passed away in 2019. He would have celebrated his 50th birthday today, 20th February 2024....
