The official handle of the German Astronomical Society (Astronomische Gesellschaft, AG). Here to tweet Astronomy news and views into cybersphere.
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15 Sep 2025
Hi 👋, we are leaving X. You can still find us under: Instagram @germanastrosoc
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12 Feb 2025
Exciting news! Prof. Isobel Hook has been selected to receive the 2025 Caroline Herschel Medal for her groundbreaking work on supernovae & the accelerating universe! 🌌✨ @RoyalAstroSoc 👏 Congrats, @IsobelHook ! #WomenInSTEM #Astronomy astronomische-gesellschaft.d…
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German Astronomical Society retweeted
This year’s public lecture series at #MPSGoettingen will be devoted to #Earth and its cosmic next of kin: the inner #planets #Mercury, #Venus and #Mars. Find more info here: mps.mpg.de/die-erde-und-ihre… All lectures in German. See you there! #innerplanets @thegoecampus
ALT Die Erde und ihre Geschwister Neues von den Gesteinsplaneten in unserem Sonnensystem Öffentliche Vortragsreihe am Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung Januar - April 2025
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3 Dec 2024
Exciting update: the deadline has been extended! 👇🏽📣
2 Dec 2024
Good news! 😀
We've extended the deadline to submit nominations for the Caroline Herschel Medal 2025 🏅🏅🏅
You now have until Tuesday 10 December 2024 to help us recognise an outstanding woman astronomer working in the UK ✨
Nominate at: ras.ac.uk/awards-and-grands/…
ALT A portrait of Caroline Herschel alongside two images of the Caroline Herschel Medal awarded by the RAS and Astronomische Gesellschaft.
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9 Nov 2024
EYES TO THE SKY: THE NEXT GENERATION OF LARGE TELESCOPES
@Falling_Walls 🔭✨🌟
Watch live: falling-walls.com/livestream…
#FallingWalls #ScienceSummit24
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19 Oct 2024
🔊 heute bundesweit und kostenfrei 💥👇✨💫
17 Oct 2024
Am 19. Oktober 2024 findet die erste bundesweite Lange Nacht der Astronomie statt! 🚀
🔭Live-Himmelsbeobachtungen
🎙️ Keynotes & Mitmach-Aktionen
🎥 Livestream mit Fachleuten & mit etwas Glück:
🌠 Beobachtung des Kometen C/2023 A3
Sei dabei!
👉 lange-nacht-der-astronomie.d…
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10 Oct 2024
Together with @RoyalAstroSoc we're thrilled to announce that nominations are now open for the prestigious Caroline Herschel Medal!🎖️Details on how to nominate 📷⬇️
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German Astronomical Society retweeted
12 Sep 2024
Congrats Iliana Cortés Pérez (@AstroInformatix) for winning the best-poster award at the 2024 Int. Meeting of the @GermanAstroSoc for her poster “Disentangling the interplay of the inner region of AGNs via probabilistic photometry”. We are immensely proud!
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13 Sep 2024
Last day of #AG2024!
Today on the menu: asteroids, fast radio bursts, galaxies and galaxy clusters, just to name a few.
We hope you had a great time at the conference. See you next year in Görlitz for #AG2025!
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11 Sep 2024
Today at #AG2024, we started off with inspiring talks in the plenary session. Exploring the low-frequency gravitational wave sky, precision astrophysics in the era of ELT, cosmic magnetic fields and the early Universe...
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11 Sep 2024
... if this is not enough to awaken your curiosity, then head to the official website of the #AG2024, to read more about these exciting topics:
ag2024.astronomische-gesells…
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11 Sep 2024
Big thanks to all our speakers for providing us with a dose of fresh, new science! #AG2024
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10 Sep 2024
The Hans-Ludwig Neumann Prize 2024 honours Prof. Dr. Oliver Schwarz for his achievements in teaching astronomy in schools 📚 #AG2024
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10 Sep 2024
The Bruno H. Bürgel Prize 2024 goes to astrophysicist and science journalist Dirk Lorenzen, who has been committed to popularizing astronomy and space travel among the general public for decades #AG2024 🤩
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10 Sep 2024
Matti Dorsch is awarded with the Doctoral Thesis Award 2024 for his thesis entitled "Tracing the diversity of hot subdwarf evolution surface composition,🧲 fields, and populations" #AG2024
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10 Sep 2024
Willem van Straten receives the 2024 Astrophysical Software Award for his significant role in the development of the
software package PSRCHIVE 👏💻#AG2024
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10 Sep 2024
Next up is Matthias Kluge with his Biermann prize talk on the low surface brightness universe 🌌
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10 Sep 2024
Congratulations to @antonzensus director at the @MPIfR_Bonn awardee of the Karl Schwarzschild Medal 2024 🎉✨🏅
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