Speaker Night

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Talk Synopsis The talk will give a general introduction on the formation of stars and planets. I will show how we are using data from amateur telescopes to monitor the brightness of 1000s of young stars to study their properties. A few selected recent results will also be discussed. At the end I will give […]

Talk Synopsis When the James Webb Space Telescope was launched, astronomers looked forward to peering further into space than ever before, and to witnessing the cosmic dawn — the epoch when the first galaxies emerged and set the stage for the universe as we know it today. What happened next was a surprise. Instead of […]