Telescopes in the Atacama desert, Chile The Atacama desert of Chile is home to several of the world's greatest telescopes. In this aerial view, the low evening Sun accentuates the mountainous topography. The nearby Cerro Paranal hosts VLT, the Very Large Telescope of ESO, the European Southern Observatory.  In the distance to the left, ELT, the Extremely Large Telescope is being erected on Cerro

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from the Lund University Planetarium Show description: Show length: ca 20-45 minutes Available languages: English, Swedish The Lund University Planetarium produced a flat screen version of Distant Universe for Culture Night 2020. This is a live show that requires narration from an experienced astronomer. Only the background videos are provided here and then it is up to you to set it up and provide

https://www.astro.lu.se/Outreach/Planetarium/Distant-Universe - 2025-06-17

The LU and the ROG production teams are willing to share clips and resources with the community.  We are always interested in knowing how people are using our resources, so if you find any of this useful then feel free to reach out and let us know. Flying through the International Space Station Produced by:  Lund Universtiy Planetarium Fulldome video for download In this five minute clip we start

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- APRIL 28, 9:00 TO 10:30 (CEST)   Programme 9:00 Reference stars for large spectroscopic surveys - the case of LAMOST (Maosheng Xiang) 9:20 Selection of oscillating red giants in multiple-stars systems (Patrick Gaulme) 9:40 Utilising Galactic Archaeology for Exoplanetary Science (Jake Clark) 9:48 Discussion   Talk Slides Slides for talk: 'Reference stars for large spectroscopic surveys - the case

https://www.astro.lu.se/lundreferencestars/programme/session-5 - 2025-06-17

Projects:   The origin of the Nuclear Star Cluster The purpose of the research is to systematically determine and characterize the processes involved in the build up of the Nuclear Star Cluster of the Milky Way and the surrounding central structures, and to investigate the consequences and implications for our understanding of the formation engines of galaxies in general. By studying the present d

https://www.astro.lu.se/~ryde/GCE - 2025-06-17

  Projects:   Water vapor in the atmospheres of Red Giants I have made major contributions to the interpretation of high-resolution, mid-infrared spectra of stars, especially those of red supergiants. For instance, I discovered unexpected water vapour in the atmospheres of warm giant stars. These observations are very useful to test models of the outer atmospheric structures. We still do not know

https://www.astro.lu.se/~ryde/RG - 2025-06-17

Projects:   Near-IR Atomic and Molecular Spectroscopy in the Laboratory With the new Fourier Transform Spectrometer installed at Lund Observatory, we are involved in measuring wavelengths and line strengths of transitions in astrophysically interesting elements, such as Sr, Y, and Ba.   IR spectroscopy at high spectral resolution for the E-ELT I am enaged by ESO to investigate the scientific case

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- Information coming soon Back Red Giants Galactic Chemical Evolution Infrared Spectroscopy

https://www.astro.lu.se/~ryde/Teaching - 2025-06-17

The main aim of my research is to unravel the origin and evolution of large spiral galaxies like our own Milky Way. This is best done by by probing and mapping in detail the age, chemical abundance, and kinematical properties of its main structural components. To do this I have utilised different tracers: dwarf stars in the solar neighbourhood, red giant stars in the inner and outer regions of the

https://www.astro.lu.se/~tbensby/research - 2025-06-17

Important note: SRS 2021 will be a 3 hour 45 minute online meeting due to the ongoing Covid-19 restrictions. Last years meeting was canceled for the same reasons. Svenska Rymdforskares Samarbetsgrupp 2021 holds its annual gathering of researchers who work on space topics and is being held virtually this year. Lund Observatory is hosting the meeting which takes place on the 16th March online. The m

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Session 1  -  Chair: David Hobbs (LU) 08:30-08:35  Welcome to Virtual Lund  - David Hobbs (LU)   08:35-08:55  Characterizing the Martian surface and potential organics with ExoMars and MOMA - Sandra Siljeström (RISE, Borås) 08:55-09:15  The first ever energetic neutral particle measurements on the lunar surface: A Swedish instrument on a Chinese lunar rover - Martin Wieser (IRF Kiruna) 09:15-09:35

https://www.astro.lu.se/SRS2021/programme - 2025-06-17

- follow us on social media In the past few years several of our astronomers have been active on the Lund Observatory Twitter account.Check us out on Twitter to get a glimpse into the day to day work (and play) here at the University.Link to Lund Observatory on Twitter/X    Tweeting Astronomers The Lund Observatory Twitter account (@lundobservatory) is currently being managed by:Anna S. Arnadottir

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Name Institute David Hobbs Lund Observatory Alexander Mustill Lund Observatory Maria Hamrin Department of Physics, Umeå University Per Magnusson Rymdstyrelsen Felix Ryde KTH, Stockholm Vilgot Claesson Rymdstyrelsen Anders Tjulin EISCAT Scientific Association Santiago Arellano Chalmers Tekniska Högskola Herbert Gunell Umeå Universitet Lars Karlsson Karolinska Institutet Mats Holmström Institutet fö

https://www.astro.lu.se/SRS2021/participants - 2025-06-17

The third season of our astronomy podcast is now published and available! Brand new episodes were released every Friday during March 2023 on a wide variety of podcasting platforms, giving you an unique insight into the life and work of our researchers - and into the lives and works of a few visiting researchers. The very first season of The Meridian was released back in the fall of 2021, while sec

https://www.astro.lu.se/TheMeridian - 2025-06-17

Transcription of the zeroth episode The episode starts with background music and 24 high school students saying astronomical words like “Space missions”,  "Solar wind", "The big dipper", "Galactic dynamics", "Gravitational waves", "Exoplanets", "Black holes", "Betelgeuse", "Dark energy", "Near earth asteroids", "Jupiter", "Ground based telescopes" and more.  Slowly it fades to everyone saying “The

https://www.astro.lu.se/meridian-s01e00 - 2025-06-17

As the 2021 meeting was held as an online meeting, Lund Observatory is now happy to invite you all to Lund for the 2022 meeting. Register for the SRS 2022 meeting Svenska Rymdforskares Samarbetsgrupp 2022 holds its annual gathering of researchers who work on space topics. Lund Observatory is hosting the meeting which takes place on 23-24 March. The meeting covers a large area of space science carr

https://www.astro.lu.se/SRS2022 - 2025-06-17

Name and Institute David Hobbs (Lund Observatory), Dinner: Y Poster: N Maria Hamrin (Umeå University), Dinner: Y: Poster: N Alexander Mustill (Lund Observatory), Dinner Y: Poster N Ross Church (Lund Observatory), Dinner Y: Poster N Paul McMillan (Lund Observatory), Dinner N: Poster N Julien Record (Karolinska Institutet), Dinner Y: Poster Y Lisa Westerberg (Karolinska Institutet), Dinner Y: Poster

https://www.astro.lu.se/SRS2022/participants - 2025-06-17

The SRS 2022 programme. Wednesday 23rd 13:00: David Hobbs (LU) - Welcome to Lund Astrobiology - Chair: Natuschka Lee 13:05: Merve Yesilbas (UmU) - The Role of Salts and Brines in Modern Martian Geochemistry 13:30: Birger Schmitz (LU) - Astronomy by looking down instead of up - research at the Astrogeobiology Laboratory Astronomy - Chair: Felix Ryde 13:55: Jens Hoeijmakers (LU) - Atmospheres of Ult

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Transcription of the first episode   Rebecca:  This is season one, episode one, of the Meridian, our brand new podcast.  We are coming to you on September 24th 2021 from Lund Observatory, as we are celebrating the Astronomy Day and Night here in Sweden.   Crossing our local meridian in this episode we have Michiel Lambrechts, a planet formation specialist from Belgium, who first moved to Lund as a

https://www.astro.lu.se/meridian-s01e01 - 2025-06-17

Alva is a not-for-profit student organisation based at Lund Observatory, Lund University.  We arrange activities such as popular astronomy talks, observations of celestial objects with the Lund Observatory telescopes, trips to the Lund University Planetarium and other space-related activities.   ALVA exists for the sole purpose of sharing the love of science, space and astronomy.  ALVA is a recogn

https://www.astro.lu.se/form/join-alva-astronomy-club - 2025-06-17