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Exciting news! Prof. Isobel Hook has been selected to receive the 2025 Caroline Herschel Medal for her groundbreaking work on supernovae & the accelerating universe! 🌌✨ @RoyalAstroSoc 👏 Congrats, @IsobelHook ! #WomenInSTEM #Astronomy astronomische-gesellschaft.de/en

This year’s public lecture series at #MPSGoettingen will be devoted to #Earth and its cosmic next of kin: the inner #planets #Mercury, #Venus and #Mars. Find more info here: mps.mpg.de/die-erde-und-i… All lectures in German. See you there! #innerplanets @thegoecampus

Exciting update: the deadline has been extended! 👇🏽📣

EYES TO THE SKY: THE NEXT GENERATION OF LARGE TELESCOPES @Falling_Walls 🔭✨🌟 Watch live: falling-walls.com/livestream2024 #FallingWalls #ScienceSummit24

🔊 heute bundesweit und kostenfrei 💥👇✨💫

Together with @RoyalAstroSoc we're thrilled to announce that nominations are now open for the prestigious Caroline Herschel Medal!🎖️Details on how to nominate 📷⬇️ astronomische-gesellschaft.de/en/News/the-ca…

Congrats Iliana Cortés Pérez (@AstroInformatix) for winning the best-poster award at the 2024 Int. Meeting of the @GermanAstroSoc for her poster “Disentangling the interplay of the inner region of AGNs via probabilistic photometry”. We are immensely proud!

Last day of #AG2024! Today on the menu: asteroids, fast radio bursts, galaxies and galaxy clusters, just to name a few. We hope you had a great time at the conference. See you next year in Görlitz for #AG2025! ag2024.astronomische-gesellschaft.de/program/detail…

Big thanks to all our speakers for providing us with a dose of fresh, new science! #AG2024

... if this is not enough to awaken your curiosity, then head to the official website of the #AG2024, to read more about these exciting topics: ag2024.astronomische-gesellschaft.de

Today at #AG2024, we started off with inspiring talks in the plenary session. Exploring the low-frequency gravitational wave sky, precision astrophysics in the era of ELT, cosmic magnetic fields and the early Universe...

The Hans-Ludwig Neumann Prize 2024 honours Prof. Dr. Oliver Schwarz for his achievements in teaching astronomy in schools 📚 #AG2024

Dirk Lorenzen donates the prize money to @ReporterOG ✨👍

The Bruno H. Bürgel Prize 2024 goes to astrophysicist and science journalist Dirk Lorenzen, who has been committed to popularizing astronomy and space travel among the general public for decades #AG2024 🤩

Matti Dorsch is awarded with the Doctoral Thesis Award 2024 for his thesis entitled "Tracing the diversity of hot subdwarf evolution surface composition,🧲 fields, and populations" #AG2024

Willem van Straten receives the 2024 Astrophysical Software Award for his significant role in the development of the software package PSRCHIVE 👏💻#AG2024

Time for cosmic coffee ☕️ stay tuned #AG2024

Next up is Matthias Kluge with his Biermann prize talk on the low surface brightness universe 🌌

Congratulations to @antonzensus director at the @MPIfR_Bonn awardee of the Karl Schwarzschild Medal 2024 🎉✨🏅