Hamburg Observatory

The elements that form our planet and our bodies originate from cataclysmic collisions between the universe’s most extreme stars. This insight has earned the ENGRAVE collaboration the first ever ‘Into Change Award’.

A few days ago, the European Southern Observatory put a new type of instrument into operation: the 4-meter Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST), which will conduct a unique survey of the southern sky over the next five years. The University of Hamburg participates in this milestone achievement by the international...

The observatory hosted an international workshop organized by Prof. Stephan Rosswog. With support from Rosswog’s ERC Advanced Grant INSPIRATION and by the Excellence Cluster Quantum Universe of the University of Hamburg, the workshop covered the multi-messenger signals of those gravitational wave sources that are detectable...