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The Division of Astrophysics is, as of January 2023, a part of the Department of Physics and the astronomy education is now one of the many specializations they offer. Bachelor programme Once you decide to join us, to study astronomy and hopefully pursue a career as an astronomer, you start by enrolling to the Bachelor programme in astronomy and astrophysics. After three years of studies you will
https://www.astro.lu.se/Education - 2025-11-17
The Universe belongs us all... or perhaps it belongs to no one. We who study the Universe are always happy to share stories and insight with the public. Here are some examples of what we do: Astronomers always give several talks at the annual NMT days. These talks are aimed at high school students and their teachers. Our seminars are open to all who wish to attend, but do require some basic unders
https://www.astro.lu.se/Outreach - 2025-11-17
from the Lund University Planetarium Show description:Show length: 35 minutesAvailable languages: Swedish Framerate: 30 fpsIn this show we tour the Solar system, visits each of the eight planets and discuss topics such as lunar phases, shooting stars, dwarf planets, craters and the seasons.The show comes in three parts. Between the first and second part of the show we recommend that the appropriat
https://www.astro.lu.se/Outreach/Planetarium/Jorden - 2025-11-17
From the Royal Observatory Greenwich Show description:Show length: 20 minutesAvailable languages: English, French, Swedish, Portuguese, UkranianFramerate: 30 fpsThis show is aimed at children, ca 3-5 years old. Here we follow Ted on a journey around the Solar System in search of the perfect planet to plant his plant. His plant will need sunshine, rain and soil. Sing along as we slowly eliminate an
https://www.astro.lu.se/Outreach/Planetarium/TSA - 2025-11-17
We are providing our shows to the planetarium community for free, but in order to secure future funding it is important to us to know who is downloading and running our showsWe therefore kindly ask you to please fill out the form as carefully as you can. Name (and location) of yoru planetarium (required) Planetarium website: Name of contact person: (required) Email address of the contact person (
https://www.astro.lu.se/outreach/fulldome-resources/requests - 2025-11-17
The Universe is in motion. We may not notice as we gaze upon the night sky, but on large timescales galaxies orbit one another and merge with one another. Astronomers simulate these processes in order to understand them better. The VINTERGATAN simulation Researchers include: Oscar Agertz, Florent Renaud, Santi Roca Fàbrega, Corentin Cadiou, Alvaro Segovia Otero Learn more about the project Spec
https://www.astro.lu.se/Research/galactic-dynamics-and-evolution - 2025-11-17
From the Royal Observatory Greenwich Show description:Show length: 30 minutesAvailable languages: English, Swedish, UkranianFramerate: 30 fpsThis show is a visually spectacular and immersive journey through the history and future of space exploration. We discuss the challenges and dangers we must consider as we leave our planet, and what we might encounter as we travel the cosmos. Files available
https://www.astro.lu.se/Outreach/Planetarium/final-frontier - 2025-11-17
The first recorded observatory in Lund was built in 1672 by astronomy professor Anders Spole, the grandfather of Anders Celsius. Spole's observatory was destroyed in 1676 during the Battle of Lund. Lund Observatory was founded in 1749 with an observatory in the round tower in a University building in Lundagård, Kungshuset. The Observatory's first dedicated building was built in 1867, and is locat
https://www.astro.lu.se/Library/historic-pictures - 2025-11-17
The rocket behind the astronomers had launched from Kiruna in the 60s for a project studying meteors. From left: Nils-Eric Cerne, Gösta Lyngå, Gunnar Larsson-Leander, Herta Nilsson (behind), Inga Åkesson, Lennart Lindegren, Torbjörn Wiesel, Nels Hansson, Stig Wramdemark, Björn Stenholm (top), Peter Linde (below), Eva Jurlander, Dainis Dravins, Hans-Ove Hagerbo, Katrin Särg, Stefan Larsson, Eva Mez
https://www.astro.lu.se/library/historic-pictures/lund-observatory-1980-2005 - 2025-11-17
This picture is taken in the lecture theatre of the old observatory in the fall of 1940 (the planetarium would be housed here from 1978-2000). This picture was published in Kvällsposten (local news paper) on March 6th, 1955 under the headline "Jättearbete med stjärnpanorama slutfört vid lundaobservatoriet". Left of the Milky Way Panorama we see Tatjana and Martin Kesküla, who painted the panorama
https://www.astro.lu.se/library/historic-pictures/lund-observatory-1940-1980 - 2025-11-17
Charlier gathered a large number of apprentices, such that one talked about "lundaskolan" within astronomy, referring to the statistical methods for analysing the structure of the Solar System used by Charlier and his apprentics. This picture shows Frida Palmér standing by the meridian circle, which had been installed at Lund Observaotry in 1874. This meridian circle was used make 35 413 observati
https://www.astro.lu.se/Library/historic-pictures/lund-observatory-1940 - 2025-11-17
Arnes Öga (The Arne's Eye Telescope) Year: 2019 Reflector: PlaneWave CDK24, a Dall-Kirkham Astrograph with a 24" primary mirror Mount: PlaneWave L-mount CCD: 3K chip with a filterwheel with 7 slots Available filters: UBVRI, H-alpha, SII and OIII Spectrograf: Echelle Spectrograph with average resolution of 18000, covering the wavelength region btw 392-780 nm. The Teaching telescope Year: 2016 Mo
https://www.astro.lu.se/Outreach/stargazing/our-telescopes - 2025-11-17
ALVA is an astronomy club for students in Lund. The purpose of the club is to provide a place for science students and other people interested in astronomy to get inspiration and to experience how exciting the Universe can be. ALVA arranges astronomy-related activities such as public lectures, stargazing nights, planetarium shows and workshops. We aim to arrange events roughly once per month, usua
https://www.astro.lu.se/ALVA/about-alva - 2025-11-17
This is the webpage for the Lund Observatory Journal Club. Every week on Tuesday, we meet between 12.30-13.00 on Zoom (link is distributed via email). A volunteer will present a paper on a recent publication to an audience of interested master students, PhD students and postdocs. Upcoming presentations in HT 21: Rebecca Forsberg September 28th, 2021 Chemical abundances of 1111 FGK stars from the H
https://www.astro.lu.se/meetings/journal-club - 2025-11-17
Intended learning outcomes (ILOs) After attending a Journal Club a student should be able to: State the status of the field in which the paper is written Identify the problem that is tackled in the paper Understand (broadly) the solution presented in the paper Explain this solution orally Formulate a brief summary of the paper Relate the results of the paper to related f
https://www.astro.lu.se/meetings/journal-club/learning-outcomes - 2025-11-17
Speaker / Date Topic Eero Vaher April 13, 2021 Characterizing and correcting the proper motion bias of the bright Gaia EDR3 sources (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021arXiv210307432C/abstract) Rebecca Forsberg April 6, 2021 Using heritability of stellar chemistry to reveal the history of the Milky Way (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021MNRAS.502...32J/abstract) Daniel Mikkola March 30, 202
https://www.astro.lu.se/meetings/journal-club/past-speakers-2021 - 2025-11-17
Galactic Crash Tests ALVA is arranging a talk by Dr. Florent Renaud about galactic collisions. The abstract of the talk is as follows: The most widely accepted theory of galaxy formation claims that a major aspect of the assembly of galaxies is the interaction and mergers with their neighbours. Such interactions are commonly observed as distorted galaxies which host violent bursts of star formatio
https://www.astro.lu.se/ALVA/past-alva-events - 2025-11-17
2nd year master studentsCas Anderholm Hansson, sa0288an-s [at] student [dot] lu [dot] seEduárd Illés, ed8687il-s [at] student [dot] lu [dot] seZhanna Kuhrij, zh0840ku-s [at] student [dot] lu [dot] seEddie Larsson, eddie [dot] larsson [dot] 6476 [at] student [dot] lu [dot] seKira Lund, ki2374lu-s [at] student [dot] lu [dot] seMatilda Skantz, ma4436sk-s [at] student [dot] lu [dot] seMartin Korsfeldt
https://www.astro.lu.se/peoplelist/master-students-and-bachelor-thesis-students - 2025-11-17
Lund Observatory has a long history of famous astronomers working on understanding the dynamics and the constituents of the Milky Way. Today we honour this legacy by actively pursuing questions at the cutting edge of astronomical research, namely the formation and evolution of galaxies, stars and exoplanets. The research here at the Division for Astrophysics is driven by the curiosity of individua
https://www.astro.lu.se/Research - 2025-11-17
