All news
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1 Oct 2024
Culture Night 2024
With over 1300 visitors at the telescopes and in the planetarium, it is safe to say that Culture Night 2024 was a great success.
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19 Sep 2024
Gearing up for Culture Night
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5 Sep 2024
Researchers discover a space oddity – an exoplanet moving in mysterious ways
A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has discovered a small planet that displays peculiar orbital motion. The shimmying planet, located 455 light-years from Earth, show...
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11 Jun 2024
Astronomer honored by his home town
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16 Feb 2024
Astronomers determine the age of three mysterious baby stars at the heart of the Milky Way
Note: This PR was published by Lund University on 01/12/2023 Through analysis of high-resolution data from a ten-metre telescope in Hawaii, researchers at Lund University in Swe...
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26 Jan 2024
Second ARRAKIHS consortium meeting
The second ARRAKIHS consortium meeting was held in Lund in January. Progress of the mission study and the development of the project's instruments was discussed during this three ...
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12 Dec 2023
The Division of Astrophysics moves to A400
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21 Aug 2023
RFS 2023 : Space Research School
The annual Space Research School was organized here in late August by Astronomic Youth (Astronomisk Ungdom) in collaboration with Lund Observatory.
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19 Jan 2023
NASA astronaut Jim Pawelczyk visits Lund University
Every seat in Lundmarkssalen was full, and around 50 additional visitors followed on zoom, as NASA astronaut Jim Pawelczyk gave his talk on Monday afternoon.
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5 Dec 2022
Berkeley Price awarded to the Gaia collaboration
Congratulations to the Gaia team (and especially to the Lund Observatory members of the team) who will soon receive the 2023 Lancelot M. Berkeley - New York Community Trust Prize ...
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25 May 2022
Lennart Lindegren is shared recipient of the Shaw Price in Astronomy!
Congratulations to Lennart Lindegren, Professor Emeritus of Lund Observatory, for being the shared recipient of the Shaw Price in Astronomy!
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13 Jan 2022
ERC Starting Grant for Michiel Lambrechts!
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1 Oct 2021
Nils Ryde promoted to Professor
Big congratulations to Nils, who has just been promoted to Professor here at the Department for Astronomy and Theoretical Physics.
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30 Mar 2021
New website launched.
At the end of March Lund Observatory moved its website to the Lund University web server.
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4 Jan 2021
Paul McMillan awarded pedagogical prize
The University pedagogical prize 2020 was awarded to Paul McMillan here at Lund Observatory.