✨ A serendipitous discovery uncovers a sleeping giant!

Wading through ESA Gaia data, scientists have uncovered a record-holding stellar black hole 🕳️ right in our galaxy 👉 esa.int/Science_Explor…

Astronomers have solved the puzzle of a stellar pair and the nebula enveloping it! 1/

🔍 Read more: eso.org/public/news/es…

'Beautiful nebula, violent history: clash of stars solves stellar mystery'. KU Leuven researchers solve puzzle of mysterious stellar twins in recent Science Magazine article. ✨🔭🌌fys.kuleuven.be/ster/news/2024… ESO

'Tenth camera of the future ESA_Plato space telescope ready for integration on the spacecraft'. We are very proud that we can contribute to this upcoming exoplanet hunter, bringing it one step closer to launch! 🪐💫🌌
fys.kuleuven.be/ster/news/2024…

🪐Unravelling the mysteries of dying stars!

☄️Astronomers have shed light on the orbit of a cool red giant star as it approaches the end of its life.

This remarkable orbit takes around
1 000 years to complete! Read more👉europa.eu/!XPVp8g

🏆Congratulations to the 2024 winners of the #Crafoord #Prize in #Astronomy - including Conny Aerts KU Leuven & Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard Aarhus Universitet.
[Both have been funded by the 🇪🇺ERC.]

Voormalig FWO-bestuurder Conny Aerts IvS - KU Leuven wint opnieuw prestigieuze wetenschapsprijs 👏🎉 vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2024…

This year's #CrafoordPrize in Astronomy has been awarded to Conny Aerts, Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard and Douglas Gough. Congratulations, Conny! 👏 IvS - KU Leuven

The Crafoord Prize 2024 – Astronomy 🔭

This year, the Crafoord Prize in Astronomy is awarded to Douglas Gough, Cambridge University, UK, Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark, and Conny Aerts, KU Leuven, Belgium, “for developing the methods of asteroseismology and their…

Interested in space research, technology and exploitation? Check out these new vacancies at the KU Leuven Department of Physics & Astronomy
- Coordinator Interdisciplinary Space Research
- Project & Educational Coordinator for Gravitational Wave Science
kuleuven.be/personeel/jobs…

Something must be about to happen...

Last week some of our PhD students got the opportunity to discuss the importance of space research with the Belgian King and Queen during the Belgian State visit to Germany.

Congratulations to Conny Aerts #kuleuven ! 💐
🔹 Selected for ‘new Lamy group’
🔹 Advising the European Commission on #FP10
🔹 Paving the way for R&I after #HorizonEurope
🔹 Expert in personal capacity
Read more 👉 bit.ly/40R3ZTF