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22 Oct 2025
A new eye on the universe opens in Chile
A new instrument on the four-metre VISTA telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile has recently captured its first starlight. This marks the beginning of a new era in...
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25 Feb 2025
Titan och mystiska jetströmmar på extrem exoplanet
Tack vare Europeiska sydobservatoriets teleskop i Chile har astronomer gjort detaljerade observationer av den mytomspunna exoplaneten WASP-121 b. Upptäckterna av grundämnet titan o...
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27 Jan 2025
Astronom tar farväl av rymdteleskop som under lång tid kartlagt Vintergatan
I drygt 30 år har astronomiprofessor Lennart Lindegren varit delaktig i arbetet med rymdteleskopet Gaia. Nyligen samlade instrumentet in sina sista observationer. Men teleskopets b...
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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.
