Marcel Agüeros Columbia Stellar ages are notoriously difficult to measure accurately for main-sequence low-mass stars, severely limiting our ability to address questions ranging from the...[more]
Adriano Agnello ESO Much of today's Universe is "dark". In the concordance cosmological scenario, Dark Energy is the likely culprit for the (observed) accelerated expansion of the Universe,...[more]
David Elbaz CEA Our understanding of galaxy formation is largely based on the use of the Lyman discontinuity in the ultraviolet spectrum of galaxies. Discovering "Lyman break galaxies"...[more]
Mattia Sormani Heidelberg I give an introduction to the gas dynamics in the bar region of the Milky Way, which is characterised by strong non-circular motions. I show how this allows to interpret...[more]
Mohammad Akhlagi CRAL Astronomical instrumentation has greatly advanced over the last 40 years: with digital detectors, space telescopes and +8m class ground-based telescopes for example. However,...[more]
Tom Richtler Universidad de Concepción The question whether elliptical galaxies fall onto the same baryonic Tully-Fisher-relation as spiral galaxies, obviously is critical for the universal...[more]
Marc Huertas-Company Observatoire de Paris Thanks to rapidly improving technology, astronomy is entering the big data era. New surveys that will be available in 2-5 years will contain...[more]
Karina Voggel (Utah Uni.)"The hunt for super-massive black holes in UCDs - Stripped nuclei as tracers of the assembly history of a Galaxy Cluster”Abstract: Central super-massive BHs (SMBHS) have...[more]
Gaia is an ambitious ESA mission to chart a three-dimensional map of our Galaxy with unprecedented...
The ObAS seminars have moved online, every Friday morning at 10:30 here The program of the coming...
Comme la plupart des galaxies spirales, la Voie lactée a en son centre une condensation d'étoiles à...
Le Globe de Coronelli de Strasbourg restauré sera inauguré officiellement (sur invitation) ce...
En raison de la situation sanitaire, il n'y aura pas de visites de la Grande Coupole de...
CDS is hiring a researcher (M/F) on a 24 months contract for the scientific support to the...