Pareidolia is a tendency that pushes humans to see shapes in clouds or faces in inanimate objects. The picture shown here is a composition of four cosmic radio sources that can in fact look like a scary monster. To obtain this effect, the sources have been rearranged compared to their original position in the sky but their...
On February 17, 2020, a high ranking delegation from Kazan University visited Hamburg Observatory. The Engelhardt Observatory of the university in the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan in the Russian Federation was, like Hamburg Observatory, built in the beginning of the 20th century and mostly equipped with...
Im Rahmen des neuen Citizen-Science-Projekts „Radio Galaxy Zoo: LOFAR“ ruft ein internationales Team von Astronominnen und Astronomen die Öffentlichkeit auf, bei der Suche nach dem Ursprung Hunderttausender bisher unentdeckter Himmelsquellen mitzuhelfen.
