The Universe is in motion. We may not notice as we gaze upon the night sky, but on large timescales galaxies orbit one another and merge with one another.  Astronomers simulate these processes in order to understand them better. The VINTERGATAN simulation  Researchers include:  Oscar Agertz, Florent Renaud, Santi Roca Fàbrega, Corentin Cadiou, Alvaro Segovia Otero Learn more about the project Spec

https://www.astro.lu.se/Research/galactic-dynamics-and-evolution - 2025-07-21

From the Royal Observatory Greenwich Show description:Show length: 30 minutesAvailable languages: English, Swedish, UkranianFramerate: 30 fpsThis show is a visually spectacular and immersive journey through the history and future of space exploration. We discuss the challenges and dangers we must consider as we leave our planet, and what we might encounter as we travel the cosmos. Files available

https://www.astro.lu.se/Outreach/Planetarium/final-frontier - 2025-07-21

The first recorded observatory in Lund was built in 1672 by astronomy professor Anders Spole, the grandfather of Anders Celsius. Spole's observatory was destroyed in 1676 during the Battle of Lund. Lund Observatory was founded in 1749 with an observatory in the round tower in a University building in Lundagård, Kungshuset.  The Observatory's first dedicated building was built in 1867, and is locat

https://www.astro.lu.se/Library/historic-pictures - 2025-07-21

The rocket behind the astronomers had launched from Kiruna in the 60s for a project studying meteors. From left: Nils-Eric Cerne, Gösta Lyngå, Gunnar Larsson-Leander, Herta Nilsson (behind), Inga Åkesson, Lennart Lindegren, Torbjörn Wiesel, Nels Hansson, Stig Wramdemark, Björn Stenholm (top), Peter Linde (below), Eva Jurlander, Dainis Dravins, Hans-Ove Hagerbo, Katrin Särg, Stefan Larsson, Eva Mez

https://www.astro.lu.se/library/historic-pictures/lund-observatory-1980-2005 - 2025-07-21

This picture is taken in the lecture theatre of the old observatory in the fall of 1940 (the planetarium would be housed here from 1978-2000). This picture was published in Kvällsposten (local news paper) on March 6th, 1955 under the headline "Jättearbete med stjärnpanorama slutfört vid lundaobservatoriet". Left of the Milky Way Panorama we see Tatjana and Martin Kesküla, who painted the panorama

https://www.astro.lu.se/library/historic-pictures/lund-observatory-1940-1980 - 2025-07-21

Charlier gathered a large number of apprentices, such that one talked about "lundaskolan" within astronomy, referring to the statistical methods for analysing the structure of the Solar System used by Charlier and his apprentics. This picture shows Frida Palmér standing by the meridian circle, which had been installed at Lund Observaotry in 1874. This meridian circle was used make 35 413 observati

https://www.astro.lu.se/Library/historic-pictures/lund-observatory-1940 - 2025-07-21

Arnes Öga (The Arne's Eye Telescope) Year: 2019 Reflector: PlaneWave CDK24, a Dall-Kirkham Astrograph with a 24" primary mirror Mount:  PlaneWave L-mount CCD:  3K chip with a filterwheel with 7 slots Available filters: UBVRI, H-alpha, SII and OIII Spectrograf:  Echelle Spectrograph with average resolution of 18000, covering the wavelength region btw 392-780 nm. The Teaching telescope Year: 2016 Mo

https://www.astro.lu.se/Outreach/stargazing/our-telescopes - 2025-07-21

https://www.astro.lu.se/Outreach/stargazing/recent-pictures - 2025-07-21

ALVA is an astronomy club for students in Lund. The purpose of the club is to provide a place for science students and other people interested in astronomy to get inspiration and to experience how exciting the Universe can be. ALVA arranges astronomy-related activities such as public lectures, stargazing nights, planetarium shows and workshops. We aim to arrange events roughly once per month, usua

https://www.astro.lu.se/ALVA/about-alva - 2025-07-21

This is the webpage for the Lund Observatory Journal Club. Every week on Tuesday, we meet between 12.30-13.00 on Zoom (link is distributed via email). A volunteer will present a paper on a recent publication to an audience of interested master students, PhD students and postdocs. Upcoming presentations in HT 21: Rebecca Forsberg September 28th, 2021 Chemical abundances of 1111 FGK stars from the H

https://www.astro.lu.se/meetings/journal-club - 2025-07-21

Intended learning outcomes (ILOs) After attending a Journal Club a student should be able to: State the status of the field in which the paper is written   Identify the problem that is tackled in the paper                Understand (broadly) the solution presented in the paper Explain this solution orally         Formulate a brief summary of the paper   Relate the results of the paper to related f

https://www.astro.lu.se/meetings/journal-club/learning-outcomes - 2025-07-21

Speaker / Date Topic Eero Vaher April 13, 2021 Characterizing and correcting the proper motion bias of the bright Gaia EDR3 sources (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021arXiv210307432C/abstract) Rebecca Forsberg April 6, 2021 Using heritability of stellar chemistry to reveal the history of the Milky Way (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021MNRAS.502...32J/abstract) Daniel Mikkola March 30, 202

https://www.astro.lu.se/meetings/journal-club/past-speakers-2021 - 2025-07-21

Galactic Crash Tests ALVA is arranging a talk by Dr. Florent Renaud about galactic collisions. The abstract of the talk is as follows: The most widely accepted theory of galaxy formation claims that a major aspect of the assembly of galaxies is the interaction and mergers with their neighbours. Such interactions are commonly observed as distorted galaxies which host violent bursts of star formatio

https://www.astro.lu.se/ALVA/past-alva-events - 2025-07-21

2nd year master studentsCas Anderholm Hansson, sa0288an-s [at] student [dot] lu [dot] seEduárd Illés, ed8687il-s [at] student [dot] lu [dot] seZhanna Kuhrij, zh0840ku-s [at] student [dot] lu [dot] seEddie Larsson, eddie [dot] larsson [dot] 6476 [at] student [dot] lu [dot] seKira Lund, ki2374lu-s [at] student [dot] lu [dot] seMatilda Skantz, ma4436sk-s [at] student [dot] lu [dot] seMartin Korsfeldt

https://www.astro.lu.se/peoplelist/master-students-and-bachelor-thesis-students - 2025-07-21

Lund Observatory has a long history of famous astronomers working on understanding the dynamics and the constituents of the Milky Way. Today we honour this legacy by actively pursuing questions at the cutting edge of astronomical research, namely the formation and evolution of galaxies, stars and exoplanets. The research here at the Division for Astrophysics is driven by the curiosity of individua

https://www.astro.lu.se/Research - 2025-07-21

December 16, 2015  Asli Pehlivan  Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics  Andreasen, D. T.; Sousa, S. G.; Delgado Mena, E.; Santos, N. C.; Tsantaki, M.; Rojas-Ayala, B.; Neves, V.  NIR spectroscopy of the Sun and HD20010 - Compiling a new linelist in the NIR  December 9, 2015  Bert Bitsch  Early solar system Rings and moons  Kaveh Pahleva&Alessandro Morbidelli  Collisionless encounters and

https://www.astro.lu.se/calendar/journal-club/past-meetings-2011-2015 - 2025-07-21

Date Speaker Topic Author ads December 15, 2020 Eero Vaher GAIA EDR3     December 8, 2020 Christian Sahlholdt astronomical databases: miscellaneous; astrometry; stars: distances; Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies de Jong et al. Benford's law in the Gaia universe November 17, 2020 Thomas Ronnet Planetary Science Deng et al. Early oxidation of the martian crust triggered by impacts November 10

https://www.astro.lu.se/calendar/journal-club/past-speakers-2016-2020 - 2025-07-21

The old ATP newsletter was published for many years, recounting the comings and goings of Lund Observatory researchers.  We keep it here for archival purposes.  All links point to PDF files and open in new a tab. 2022 December 2022 November 2022 October 2022 September 2022 Summer 2022 May 2022 April 2022 March 2022 February 2022 2021 December 2021 November 2021 October 2021 September 2021 June 202

https://www.astro.lu.se/LundObservatory/monthly-newsletter - 2025-07-21

Virtually from Lund Observatory, March and April 2021 Scientific motivation The characterization of stellar properties is crucial to studies of Galactic archaeology, exoplanets, and stellar structure and evolution. To ensure the success of these science pillars, a well-established and well-understood set of reference stars is needed. Current and future large surveys of the Milky Way are set to det

https://www.astro.lu.se/lundreferencestars - 2025-07-21

Preliminary schedule Speakers Date Europe (central) Sydney Chile Ohio Santi Cassisi Maria Bergemann   March 3 10:30 20:30 6:30 4:30 Paula Jofre Pierre Maxted Shreeya Shetye March 17 14:00 0:00 10:00 9:00 Sven Buder Meridith Joyce Martina Baratella March 31 9:00 18:00 4:00 3:00 Yuan-Sen Ting Kim Venn Laia Casamiquela April 14 15:00 23:00 9:00 9:00 Maosheng Xiang Patrick Gaulme Jake Clark April 28 9

https://www.astro.lu.se/lundreferencestars/programme - 2025-07-21