Back in 2001 the then Department of Astronomy moved from the old observatory at Svanelyckan (Stadsparken) to Sölvegatan 27.  Today it was time for the astronomers to move again.  Next time you want to visit the Division of Astronomy, we will be located in the A400 corridoor in the Physics building. Welcome.   

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/division-astrophysics-moves-a400 - 2025-08-25

The second ARRAKIHS consortium meeting was held in Lund in January. Progress of the mission study and the development of the project's instruments was discussed during this three day meeting.

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/second-arrakihs-consortium-meeting - 2025-08-25

The image, taken with ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile, shows a high-resolution view of the innermost parts of the Milky Way. In the new study, the researchers examined the dense nuclear star cluster shown in detail here. (Photo: ESO) Note: This PR was published by Lund University on 01/12/2023 Through analysis of high-resolution data from a ten-metre telescope in Hawaii, researchers at Lund Un

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/astronomers-determine-age-three-mysterious-baby-stars-heart-milky-way - 2025-08-25

Rebecca Forsberg and Nic Borsato continue to host our astronomy podcast 'The Meridian'.    In this third season they interview prominent researchers, such as NASA astronaut Jim Pawelczyk, professor at Penn State University in Kinesiology and Physiology, Ruth Pöttgen, a senior lecturer at the Department of Physics, Judith Korth, here at the Division of Astrophysics and Prof. Marie Dacke from the De

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/third-season-meridian-astronomy-podcast-released - 2025-08-25

Image credit: Naciódigital.cat  We were pleased to hear that one of our own, Santi Roca Faberga, has been honored by his local community for his achievements.  By popular vote in his home town he was selected for the Garrotxí de l'Any award 2023.An article about the award ceremony was published (in Catalan) in the Garroxta newspaper:Article about Stanti Roca Faberga

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/astronomer-honored-his-home-town - 2025-08-25

Astronomers and astronomy students have been training and checking the telescopes in preparation for Culture night.  The forecast looks good and we hope to get lots of visitors that want to look through the telescopes and marvel at the Universe.Astronomy on Culture Night 2024: Kl 11.00 - 19.00 :  Ljusets mörkare sidaThe Lund University Planetarium premiers with a new show (in Swedish) about how ou

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/gearing-culture-night - 2025-08-25

With over 1300 visitors at the telescopes and in the planetarium, it is safe to say that Culture Night 2024 was a great success. Arranging astronomy events on Culture Night is always a bit difficult since we do not know in advance if the skies are going to be clear.  We had luck with us this year.  The weather was nice and sunny during the day and once the Sun set we could bring out the telescopes

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/culture-night-2024 - 2025-08-25

Artist’s impression of a planetary system. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser A research team led by Lund University in Sweden has discovered a small planet that displays peculiar orbital motion. The shimmying planet, located 455 light-years from Earth, shows that planetary systems can be considerably more complex than researchers have previously thought. The newly discovered planet TOI-1408c has a mass eq

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/researchers-discover-space-oddity-exoplanet-moving-mysterious-ways - 2025-08-25

Image Credit> ESA/ATG medialab, ESO/S. Brunier I drygt 30 år har astronomiprofessor Lennart Lindegren varit delaktig i arbetet med rymdteleskopet Gaia. Nyligen samlade instrumentet in sina sista observationer. Men teleskopets bidrag till forskningen kommer att leva kvar under lång tid. This news article is in Swedish.  It was originally published on www.naturvetenskap.lu.se by Johan Joelsson.Lenna

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/astronom-tar-farval-av-rymdteleskop-som-under-lang-tid-kartlagt-vintergatan - 2025-08-25

Artist's image of an ultra-hot Jupiter. Source: ESO/M. Kornmesser Tack vare Europeiska sydobservatoriets teleskop i Chile har astronomer gjort detaljerade observationer av den mytomspunna exoplaneten WASP-121 b. Upptäckterna av grundämnet titan och jetströmmar utmanar vår förståelse för vindar och kemi på ultraheta planeter. This news article is in Swedish.  It was originally published on www.natu

https://www.astro.lu.se/article/titan-och-mystiska-jetstrommar-pa-extrem-exoplanet - 2025-08-25

Regeringen har utsett tre nya ledamöter i Klimatpolitiska rådet. En av dem är Anna Maria Jönsson, professor vid institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemanalys vid Lunds universitet och vice koordinator i BECC. (In English below) Grattis, Anna Maria Jönsson, till det nya uppdraget. Vilken expertis bidrar du med i Klimatpolitiska rådet?– Min forskning handlar om klimateffekter på skogliga ekosy

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/anna-maria-jonsson-utsedd-till-ledamot-i-klimatpolitiska-radet - 2025-08-25

Håkan Wallander was one of the speakers at the Gothenburg Book Fair this weekend. See his talk about his book "Soil". BECC researcher Håkan Wallander talked about his main research interest: soil, at the big book fair in Gothenburg. You can hear him share his knowledge about soil in this talk. Håkan's book "Jord" was recently translated into English, you can find the book "Soil" here. 

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/soil-talk-book-fair-gothenburg - 2025-08-25

Join our team! We are looking for a Research Coordinator with a focus on research grants with appropriate professional experience to support researchers in the application process and disseminate information about opportunities. Work dutiesBECC is looking for a Research Coordinator with a focus on research grants with appropriate professional experience to support researchers in the application pr

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/job-alert-research-coordinator-focus-research-grants - 2025-08-25

Photo: Mazarine Blue by Zachary Nolen Changes in land use have been highlighted as one of the main reasons for the global decline of insects. New research from Lund University, which examined three common Swedish grassland butterflies, shows that changes in land use not only reduce insect numbers. The loss of habitat can also lead to increased inbreeding, especially among specialised species that

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/changes-land-use-leads-increased-inbreeding-swedish-butterflies - 2025-08-25

A new report from "miljöforskningsberedningen" (MFB), a council for dialogue between the scientific community and the Swedish Minister for climate and the Environment, is arguing that the environmental politics has to change fundamentally in order to be effective. Henrik Smith, coordinator of BECC at Lund University, and Olof Johansson-Stenman, University of Gothenburg, are two of the 12 authors o

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/environmental-politics-should-be-included-all-politics - 2025-08-25

Welcome to the BECC Annual Meeting 2014, a lunch-to-lunch meeting, 24-25 November. The theme of this year's meeting is "Science to policy" with examples from climate and ecosystem based research and policy, as IPCC and IPBES. The goal of this annual meeting is to create dialogue on how we can bring the BECC science to policy, to broaden our knowledge about the BECC research and find new ways of wo

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/welcome-becc-annual-meeting-2014-theme-science-policy - 2025-08-25

Read more about new reports from BECC, coming events, open positions, courses and much more in the October newsletter. BECC Annual Meeting in Halmstad on 24-25 November, a new report from MFB, "miljöforskningsberedningen" and the world's leading climate researchers gathered at the School of Business, Economics & Law - these are just some of the headlines of the new BECC newsletter. You can also fi

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-newsletter - 2025-08-25

BECC researcher Fariborz Zelli is one of the organizers of a side-event at COP 20, in Lima, Peru on the 4th of December. The title of the event is "REDD and beyond". BECC researcher Tobias Nielsen is one of the speakers at the side-event. REDD is one a series of incentive-based mechanisms for reducing greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to REDD, and partly out of criticism to it, a number of fur

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-cop-20-side-event-redd-and-beyond - 2025-08-25

Read Fariborz Zelli's report on the side-event 'REDD and Beyond: International and Indegenous Strategies in Forest Protection', held in Lima on the 4th of December. On Thursday, 4th December, BECC was one of the initiators of a side-event on ‘REDD and Beyond: International and Indigenous Strategies in Forest Protection’. The event was co-organised by Lund University and the German NGO Climate Alli

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/becc-united-nations-climate-conference - 2025-08-25

On 24-25 November, the BECC Annual Meeting 2014 was held in Halmstad. The meeting focused on the future possibilities of research within BECC and what is to come. For those of you who could not join the meeting - and those of you who would like to see a particularly interesting presentation again - we have collected the presentations from the meeting here. The fifth annual meeting for BECC was hel

https://www.becc.lu.se/article/report-presentations-becc-annual-meeting-2014 - 2025-08-25