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Dominika Wylezalek new Professor at ZAH / ARI

Dominika Wylezalek has been appointed as a new Professor at ZAH and Director at ARI, effective March 1, 2025. She will lead the research group “Galaxy Evolution and AGN (GALENA)”. (2025/02/24)

Last starlight for Gaia

With its sky-scanning phase completed and "retirement” orbit imminent, the ARI team is saddened by the forced break in contact. But there are great data products on the horizon. (2025/01/16)

Michela Mapelli appointed Humboldt Scouting Sponsor

Prof. Dr. Michela Mapelli (ZAH/ITA) has been appointed to the "Henriette Herz Scouting Program". She now has the opportunity to recommend scientific talents from abroad for a Humboldt Research Fellowship in Heidelberg. (2025/01/08)

DoBlack: Unraveling the zoo of dormant black holes

To investigate the formation of dormant black holes which are part of a binary star system with a companion star, Prof. Dr. Michela Mapelli (ZAH/ITA) receives a research grant from the German Research Foundation (DFG). (2025/01/07)

Teaching award for Eva Grebel

Eva Grebel (ZAH) received the teaching award from the Department of Physics and Astronomy of Heidelberg University. (2024/12/06)

Patzer Award for Brooke Polak (ITA) and Jose Eduardo Mendez-Delgado (ARI)

The Ernst Patzer Foundation is awarding the best refereed publications by young researchers at MPIA and ZAH. This year, Brooke Polak (ITA) and Jose Eduardo Mendez-Delgado (ARI) are among the awardees. (2024/11/30)

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ASTROPHYSICS CURRICULUM

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Astro & Physics Talks

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Next Astro colloquia
Apr 29
16:30		The build-up of galactic nuclei: how do black holes get there?
Nadine Neumayer (MPIA)
Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium
Philosophenweg 12, Main Lecture hall (gHS),
May 02
11:00		TBA
Julia Seidel (ESO)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)
May 02
11:00		TBA
Alexander Plavin (BHI, Harward)
Königstuhl Kolloquium
Max-Planck-Institut für Astronomie, Level 3 Lecture Hall (301)

more colloquia ...

Recent ZAH publications
4/2025
Sánchez-Monge, Á.; Brogan, C. L. et al. (inc. Klessen, R. S.)
ALMAGAL: II. The ALMA evolutionary study of high-mass protocluster formation in the Galaxy: ALMA data processing and pipeline
A&A 696, A150(2025)

4/2025
Ray, Shrishmoy; Sallum, Steph et al. (inc. Quirrenbach, Andreas)
The JWST Early Release Science Program for Direct Observations of Exoplanetary Systems. III. Aperture Masking Interferometric Observations of the Star HIP 65426 at 3.8 μm
ApJ 983, L25(2025)

4/2025
Martocchia, S.; Boselli, A. et al.
A Virgo Environmental Survey Tracing Ionised Gas Emission (VESTIGE): XVIII. Reconstructing the star formation history of early-type galaxies through the combination of their UV and Hα emission
A&A 696, A79(2025)

more publications ...