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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...
Target launch date of 2030 confirmed. The Department of Astrophysics at the University of Vienna is contributing onboard software to help detect faint...
The Department of Astrophysics is currently seeking to fill the position of an IT Systems Architect. Submit your application by 7 June 2026!
The first place of the Faculty's photo competition goes to the Geography student Niklas Kastius, the second to Lorin Helwig and the third to Clemens...
