German Astronomical Society

The official handle of the German Astronomical Society (Astronomische Gesellschaft, AG). Here to tweet Astronomy news and views into cybersphere.

[German Astronomical Society @GermanAstroSoc]

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[German Astronomical Society @GermanAstroSoc]

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 https://t.co/XJJGLikx8G

[Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @MPSGoettingen]

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: https://t.co/mR35n8c7XO All lectures in German. See you there! #innerplanets @thegoecampus

[German Astronomical Society @GermanAstroSoc]

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

[Royal Astronomical Society @RoyalAstroSoc]

Good news! 😀

We've extended the deadline to submit nominations for the Caroline Herschel Medal 2025 🏅🏅🏅

You now have until Tuesday 10 December 2024 to help us recognise an outstanding woman astronomer working in the UK ✨

Nominate at: https://t.co/uHrhGsAkTC

[German Astronomical Society @GermanAstroSoc]

EYES TO THE SKY: THE NEXT GENERATION OF LARGE TELESCOPES
@Falling_Walls 🔭✨🌟

Watch live: https://t.co/QFZ2deg18X

#FallingWalls #ScienceSummit24

[German Astronomical Society @GermanAstroSoc]

🔊 heute bundesweit und kostenfrei 💥👇✨💫

[BMFTR @bmftr_bund]

Am 19. Oktober 2024 findet die erste bundesweite Lange Nacht der Astronomie statt! 🚀
🔭Live-Himmelsbeobachtungen
🎙️ Keynotes & Mitmach-Aktionen
🎥 Livestream mit Fachleuten & mit etwas Glück:
🌠 Beobachtung des Kometen C/2023 A3
Sei dabei!
👉 https://t.co/xjJ2Z9fMBw
#LNDA

[German Astronomical Society @GermanAstroSoc]

Together with @RoyalAstroSoc we're thrilled to announce that nominations are now open for the prestigious Caroline Herschel Medal!🎖️Details on how to nominate 📷⬇️
https://t.co/YqeL3YGhZ2

[HITS @HITStudies]

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!

[German Astronomical Society @GermanAstroSoc]

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!

https://t.co/EoE8FclN2i

[German Astronomical Society @GermanAstroSoc]

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

[German Astronomical Society @GermanAstroSoc]

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...

[German Astronomical Society @GermanAstroSoc]

... 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:
https://t.co/z6k5RbvcvY

[German Astronomical Society @GermanAstroSoc]

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

[German Astronomical Society @GermanAstroSoc]

Dirk Lorenzen donates the prize money to @ReporterOG ✨👍

[German Astronomical Society @GermanAstroSoc]

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 🤩

[German Astronomical Society @GermanAstroSoc]

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

[German Astronomical Society @GermanAstroSoc]

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

[German Astronomical Society @GermanAstroSoc]

Time for cosmic coffee ☕️ stay tuned #AG2024

[German Astronomical Society @GermanAstroSoc]

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

[German Astronomical Society @GermanAstroSoc]

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