Shortly after becoming a citizen, Maria Lugaro became the first woman astronomer to be elected to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Congratulations! ❤️ 💪👏

Although we aren't a teaching institution, fostering the next generation of astronomers is extremely important to us. We took 12 of our sponsored/supervised undergraduates to Piszkéstető Station to introduce them to our telescopes. Huge thanks to the grad student team who organized the whole event!

Our grad student made it to this year's Hungarian Forbes 30/30 list thanks to her work on modeling the composition of Haumea's work and overall excellence: konkoly.hu/en/news/orga...

Our own supernova expert, Réka Könyves-Tóth and Lili Szabó form the Geographical Institute of the CSFK have been awarded with the Youth Prize of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Congrats!

Egy fázis lezárult a Gaia életében, de még messze a misszió vége:
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Young Scientist Kickoff Workshop, to kick off 2025 and the Spring semester! Three days of co-working for our sponsored and supervised undergraduates and PhD students, where they could show their projects to each other and get to know each other better.

Hermann #Oberth and Theodor von #Karman, Hungary, are two individuals associated with Hungary. Ivan Almar (from @konkolyobs.bsky.social) is another. Inducted into the Hall of Fame during #iac2024 in #Milan. Here is an interview I recorded with him there.
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Glorious aurora and SAR arc on the first night of 2025, as captured by our all-sky camera at Piszkéstető station: www.youtube.com/shorts/X3aOj...

And check out this cool video of 16 years of spot evolution on XX Tri, created in collaboration with data scientists at MOME Budapest: www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0VG...

Most spotted star in the sky: In a study published in Nature Communications, researchers from the AIP and the HUN-REN CSFK have reconstructed the temporal changes in the distribution of surface spots on the red giant star XX Trianguli. phys.org/news/2024-12...

Kiss Csaba és munkatársai a James Webb űrtávcsővel vizsgálták meg a rejtélyes törpebolygót:
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Two hydrogen-rich core-collapse supernovae in the same galaxy in 6 years. SN 2024abfl is 4 magnitude fainter than SN 2018zd was: it's a rare, low-luminosity Type II SN. CCD frames taken with telescopes at @konkolyobs.bsky.social

The European Research Council has awarded an ERC Synergy Grant for the „GEOASTRONOMY” project, an ambitious scientific endeavor that seeks to reveal the chemical foundations of rocky exoplanets around Sun-like stars.
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New results from HUN-REN CSFK researchers and their US colleagues suggest that the six-year light variations of Betelgeuse may be caused by a previously unknown companion star.
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Iván Almár, who celebrates his 92nd birthday this weekend, is one of the founders of Hungarian space exploration.
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ESA has presented an analysis of more than 68,000 articles on astronomy, planetary science and heliophysics, which shows that Hungarian astronomers have the best conversion rate of all ESA members relative to financial contributions.
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Well, hello there! Nice to see you all in the new place. Let's start with a few stories from our recent past.