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Lund Observatory, Lund University, Sweden.

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Congratulations to our Santi Roca Fabrega who was recently honoured for his achievements. By popular vote in his home town he was selected for the Garrotxí de l'Any award.

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🔴 Santi Roca guanya el Garrotxí de l'Any

L'astrofísic s'ha endut el guardó al qual també aspiraven Martina Puigvert i Jordi Sellas

#Garrotxa
https://t.co/CuCMlvtrbV

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A big congratulation to Dr. Katrin Ros, @katrinros, who successfully defended her PhD thesis titled ”The role of ice in planet formation”.

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The Gaia satelite continues to impress and our own Gaia team members - and all of us - are excited about this great discovery:

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Gaia spots Milky Way's most massive black hole of stellar origin! It's 33 solar masses, dormant, 2nd closest to Earth at ~2000 light years away, part of a wide binary with an old giant star, with estimated age of 11 Gyr: https://t.co/m26bbmpyFO #GaiaBH3 https://t.co/AllbZqVjQY

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Congratulations to Katrin Ros, who has now nailed her thesis titled ”The role of ice in planet formation”.

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Proud to have Oscar Agertz’ Vintergata simulation featured on ESA Science. Check it out :-)

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Get ready to have your mind blown away 🤯

This simulation shows how a galaxy like the Milky Way forms and evolves through time.

It runs from the birth of the Universe 13.7 billion years ago to 3 billion years ago.

📽️ Vintergatan – Renaud, Agertz et al. (2021)

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Today Johan Appelgren defends his PhD thesis titled ’Formation and Evolution of Protoplanetary Discs’.

The faculty oponent is Dr. Paula Pinilla and Johans thesis advisor is Prof. Anders Johansen (@AstroAndersJ).

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The Second #ARRAKIHS Consortium Meeting took place last week, a three-day meeting in Sweden. The meetings on the progress of the mission study and the development of the project's instruments were a success!! We are very grateful to @LundObservatory for hosting us so well🤗

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For the past 22 years the Lund astronomers have been working here at Sölvegatan 27, but now we are moving. As of next week you will be able to visit us across the street in the A400 section of the Physics building.

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Well done Dr Rebecca @kaosteorin Forsberg! Well done!

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🥳 I’m now a doctor of astronomy and astrophysics

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Bra jobbat Rebecca!

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Idag har jag spikat min avhandling! (fysiskt på två ställen, då vi är i mitten av en flytt av avdelningen). Den finns att ladda ned här: https://t.co/HmTwZXA45I

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The 2023 Space Research School is in full swing with lectures and workshops throughout the week.

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We now have a paper model of @ESO ’s new ELT telescope to admire as we wait for the real one to be built.

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Today Göran Östlin gave the first seminar in the Lund Observatory seminar series : "SELTIC, Swedish engagement in ELT instrumentation".

https://t.co/JzRWblSIPs

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Today we celebrate 25 years of VLT science!
Yes, it has been 25 years today since @ESO-s Very Large Telescope obtained its First Light (the night from 25th to 26th of May 1988).
Here we can learn more about the TOP 5 science breakthroughs from VLT so far: https://t.co/mSyGB6bfCC

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Today, Óscar Jiménez Arrantz, who is visiting us from @ICC_UB, is telling us about his work on the Magellanic Clouds

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The last master’s thesis defence of today is by Adam Brček on the origin of blue straggler stars in the Milky Way halo ⭐️ 🌌

Adam has been working under the supervision of Diane Feuillet and @rosspchurch for the past 1,5 years. ✨

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Day 3 is already in full flow! Erik Fridén just defended his master’s thesis on the chemical evolution of the Milky Way 🌌🧪

Erik worked under the supervision of Nils Ryde and Govind Nandakumar for the last 1,5 years. ✨

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As the last talk for today, @Neereea44 is defending her Master’s thesis on forming wide-orbit planets via pebble accretion 🪐

Nerea has been working with @AstroAndersJ and @denderendaver for the past 1,5 years. ✨

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@ViktorHJonsson is defending his Master’s thesis on “the tangled warp of the Milky Way” as we speak!

Viktor has been working under the supervision of @McMillan_Astro for the past 1,5 years.

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Þóra Karlsdóttir is kickstarting day 2 of the master’s thesis defences at the Division of Astrophysics.

Þóra has been working with @TheAstroProf during the past 1,5 years to tackle the question: Can dwarf galaxies tell us how the Milky Way formed? 🌌✨