This week, the sky above Germany provided a rare light show: even in the Ruhr region, the Northern Lights were visible. Dominik Bomans is a professor of astronomy and explains in an interview why we are currently able to admire the Northern Lights so intensely in the sky...
The Ruhr Astroparticle and Plasma Physics Center is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a visually stunning new planetarium show. From October 12, 2025, visitors will gain completely new insights into stellar explosions, black holes and distant galaxies.
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile went into operation in June 2025. The first images from the powerful telescope have now been presented to the public.
8 years and 41 million galaxies: an international research team has analyzed the final data from the Kilo-Degree Survey (KiDS). These confirm a standard model of the distribution of matter in the universe.
The Euclid space telescope provides completely new insights into the dark universe. The European Space Agency ESA has now published the first large data set from the mission: images of deep celestial fields with 26 million galaxies - a true...
