2023-02-06

Star formation in distant galaxies by the James Webb Space Telescope

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope’s first images of galaxy clusters, researchers have, for the very first time, been able to examine very compact structures of star clusters inside galaxies, so-called clumps. In a paper published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, researchers from Stockholm University have studied the first phase of star formation in distant galaxies.

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2023-02-01

Department of Astronomy

ERC Consolidator Grants to Jaime de la Cruz Rodriguez at the Department of Astron

European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator Grants is part of the EU’s Horizon Europe programme and are among the most prestigious grants in Europe. The grants will help excellent scientists, who have 7 to 12 years’ experience after their PhDs, to pursue their most promising ideas.

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2022-12-09

Institute for Solar Physics

Celebrating the SST at 20 years

20 years ago, in spring 2002, the Swedish 1-m Solar Telescope (SST) saw first light.

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2022-12-07

Rare sighting of a luminous jet from a star-eating supermassive black hole

Over 8 billion years ago, a star was torn apart as it got too close to a supermassive black hole. Jets of gas directed towards Earth recently made the fate of the star visible to a telescope looking for new sources of light in the night sky. The observation has led to two independent publications including researchers at Stockholm University in Nature and Nature Astronomy.

Rare sighting of a luminous jet from a star-eating supermassive black hole - Read the full article

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