21 September 2024 19:00 to 20:00 | Other Image credit: EHT Collaboration Welcome to the Planetarium where we are premiering the show "Supermassive Black Holes: Uncovering the Invisible". This planetarium show gives us an insight into how astronomers use both numerical simulations and state-of-the-art observations to gain understanding of these mysterious objects hiding at the hearts of distant gal

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/calendar/planetarium-show-supermassive-black-holes - 2025-05-09

21 September 2024 20:30 to 23:30 | Exhibition Astronomer och astronomistudenter från Avdelningen för Astrofysik dukar fram sina teleskop och bjuder dig att titta på universum. [English below]Om det är stjärnklart kommer vi ha teleskop på astronomihusets innergård, samt uppe på observationsplattformen och i kupolerna på husets tak.   Detta brukar vara poppulärt så det finns risk för köbildning.    

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/calendar/stargazing-lund-observatory-4 - 2025-05-09

27 August 2024 15:00 to 16:00 | Seminar Ian Roederer, associate professor at NC State University will talk about Understanding the origin of the elements remains one of the major challenges of modern astrophysics. I will introduce some of the big, open questions in the field and present several major advances from recent years. These advances include measuring the most complete heavy element chemi

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/calendar/origin-heaviest-elements - 2025-05-09

19 September 2024 13:15 to 14:00 | Seminar Reaching out to the stars - studying the Milky Way through its stellar content. Image credit: ESO/B. Tafreshi. C.Clare Worley, senior lecturer at University of Canterbury, New Zealand The field of galactic archaeology abounds with data, and more is to come from multi-object spectrograph surveys such as WEAVE and 4MOST. With my recent move back to Aotearoa

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/calendar/exploring-stars-southern-sky-high-resolution-spectroscopy - 2025-05-09

17 October 2024 13:15 to 14:00 | Seminar The Sun seen on 26 August 2024, Downloaded from Space Weather Data Portal Jenny Knuth, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) and the Space Weather Technology, Research, and Education Center (SWx TREC) at the University of Colorado, Boulder Abstract: 2024 saw the largest solar storm in 20 years (May 10 to 15), and millions of people were able t

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/calendar/visualizing-space-weather-swx-trec-space-weather-applications-bring-data-life - 2025-05-09

19 November 2024 15:15 to 16:15 | Seminar Professor Irene Tamborra, Nils Bohr Institute, Denmark Professor Tamborra will tell us about her fascinating work in the boarderland between astronomy and particle physics. Abstract: Neutrinos are fascinating elementary particles heralding the dawn of the multi-messenger astronomy era. Neutrinos affect the stellar dynamics, drive the formation of new eleme

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/calendar/neutrinos-era-multi-messenger-astronomy - 2025-05-09

2 October 2024 18:00 to 19:00 | Lecture/talk Perserverance och Ingenuity. Bild från NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Nordenmarkföreläsningen 2024 Svenska astronomiska sällskapet presenterar årets Nordenmarkföreläsning, med Sanna Alwmark, biträdande universitetslektor vid Geologiska institutionen.Jakten på stenplaneternas tidiga historia.På Mars finns stenar som innehåller information om en stenplanets mer än

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/calendar/jakten-pa-stenplaneternas-tidiga-historia - 2025-05-09

15 October 2024 10:30 to 11:30 | Seminar Milky Way seen behind ESO's VISTA telescope on Paranal, Chile Isaure Gonzalez Rivera, PhD student at Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur will talk about To deepen our knowledge of the early Milky Way, it is of particular interest to investigate the orbital and chemical properties of the most metal-poor stars associated with the oldest stars in our Universe. Rece

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/calendar/investigating-metal-poor-disc-milky-way-pristine-gaia-synthetic - 2025-05-09

26 November 2024 16:15 to 19:00 | Conference Half-day conference 26 November (16.15 - 19.00) There are advanced, concrete plans to establish space stations on the Moon and Mars, and to set up mining industries on asteroids and other celestial bodies. Countries new to the space race, as well as private industry, are now competing to achieve these goals. Meantime, deadly asteroids travel at high spe

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/calendar/end-world-post-apocalyptic-space-imaginarie - 2025-05-09

29 October 2024 10:30 to 11:30 | Seminar Milky Way seen behind ESO's VISTA telescope on Paranal, Chile Anastasiia Plotnikova, PhD student at Università di Padova will talk about The location of the Sun in the Milky Way gives us a great opportunity to study our Galaxy in detail. And later we can generalize obtained knowledge to further galaxies in the Universe.In this talk, I would like to start by

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/calendar/assembly-history-milky-way-insights-metal-poor-stars-and-solar-twins - 2025-05-09

A half-day conference of presentations and panel discussion. There are advanced, concrete plans to establish space stations on the Moon and Mars, and to set up mining industries on asteroids and other celestial bodies. Countries new to the space race, as well as private industry, are now competing to achieve these goals. Meantime, deadly asteroids travel at high speed straight towards Earth, and a

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/EotW - 2025-05-09

End of the World 26 November 2024 Astronomdagarna2024 2 - 4 October 2024

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/Conferences - 2025-05-09

12 November 2024 10:30 to 11:30 | Seminar Globular Cluster Omega Centauri. Credit: ESO/INAF-VST/OmegaCAM. Stephanie Monty, a postdoctoral researcher at IOA University of Cambridge, will talk about Globular clusters (GCs) are among the most ancient objects in the local Universe, acting as tracers of galaxy formation across both space and time. With the recent JWST discovery of nitrogen-rich star fo

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/calendar/galactic-archaeology-globular-clusters-chemo-chrono-dynamical-tracers-milky-ways-history - 2025-05-09

18 November 2024 15:00 to 17:00 | Seminar Terrence Kee, Reader in inorganic chemistry at the University of Leeds will give a presentation titled: "Evidence in Astrobiology - But What Is the Question?" Zoom link: https://lu-se.zoom.us/j/65415118455Speaker bio:Terrence Kee is a chemist by scientific background, (PhD - University of Durham; SERC-NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT and thence University o

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/calendar/space-humanities-seminar-evidence-astrobiology-what-question - 2025-05-09

14 January 2025 10:30 to 11:30 | Seminar Milky Way seen behind ESO's VISTA telescope on Paranal, Chile Bridget Ratcliffe Postdoctoral researcher at Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) The relatively unchanging chemical abundances of stellar atmospheres contain important information regarding the environment in which the stars formed in, and make them an essential tool for untangling t

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/calendar/reconstructing-milky-way-disks-chemical-evolution-data-driven-metallicity-profile - 2025-05-09

6 February 2025 13:15 to 14:00 | Seminar We are happy to announce a Lund Observatory seminar to be given by Hans Olofson from Chalmers. Hans is an expert on observations of evolved stars and will tell us about his new work enabled by ALMA. A title and abstract are provided below. Observational studies of evolved stars, mainly AGB stars and red supergiants, using ALMAAbstract:  The high sensitivity

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/calendar/observational-studies-evolved-stars-mainly-agb-stars-and-red-supergiants-using-alma - 2025-05-09

14 February 2025 19:30 to 21:00 | Other Take the chance to snuggle up in the Planetarium's double seats and discover one of space's most fascinating phenomena with someone dear to you. We'll treat you to non-alcoholic sparkling drinks and light snacks. We open the doors at 7:30 PM. Mingle in the Experiment Hall, explore some of our interactive stations, and enjoy a glass of non-alcoholic sparkling

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/calendar/valentines-day-evening-show-planetarium - 2025-05-09

5 February 2025 15:00 to 16:00 | Seminar Milky Way seen behind ESO's VISTA telescope on Paranal, Chile Guilherme Limberg KICP Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago Abstract: One of the greatest successes of the recently finalized Gaia astrometric space mission was uncovering the Milky Way's most massive accretion events that happened over the last ~10 Gyr, including the Last Major Merge

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/calendar/stars-star-clusters-and-central-black-hole-milky-ways-last-major-merger - 2025-05-09

12 March 2025 14:00 to 15:00 | Seminar The Carina Nebula. Image Credit: VLT/ESO/T. Preibisch Kaley Brauer, NSF Fellow at Harvard University The chemical makeup of ancient stars provides important insight into how galaxies formed and evolved in the early Universe. The Aeos project is a set of high-resolution simulations that model how individual stars form, enrich their surroundings with chemical e

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/calendar/galaxy-formation-and-chemical-enrichment-early-universe - 2025-05-09

26 March 2025 14:00 to 15:00 | Seminar The Carina Nebula. Image Credit: VLT/ESO/T. Preibisch Maddie Lucey, NSF Astronomy & Astrophysics Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Abstract: The metal-poor stars in the inner Galaxy are thought to be the oldest stars in our Galaxy. Therefore their chemodynamical properties can uniquely inform and constrain theories of early Milky Way forma

https://www.lundobservatory.lu.se/calendar/galactic-halos-contribution-inner-galaxy-stellar-populations - 2025-05-09