Latest News

16th-18th January 2019

We hosted in Budapest the biannual meeting of the LUNA collaboration (Laboratory for Underground Nuclear Astrophysics). More news about LUNA can be found on the latest newsletter newsletter

21st August 2018

Amanda Karakas, our collaborator from Monash University (Australia), presented an excellent and engaging plentary talk at the XXXth General Meeting of the International Astronomical Union in Vienna.

1st February 2018

LAND members have joined the WEAVE project a powerful new multi-object spectrograph for the 4.2-m William Herschel Telescope on La Palma in the Canary Islands. WEAVE will allow astronomers to take spectra of up to 1000 stars and galaxies in a single exposure! First light is expected in May 2018.

1st January 2018

The invited review by Carolyn Doherty on super-asymptotic giant branch stars and their role as electron capture supernova progenitors is out! There can be found all the recent results on mass boundaries between white dwarf types and supernova, production of chemical elements, and their relevance to observations.

30th January 2017

We have finally discovered the origin of many sand-like stardust grains! They came from stars five to six times bigger than the Sun. Published on Nature Astronomy Press release magyarul and in English.

3rd August 2016

The Torino and Astromineralogy workshop is running right now in Budapest! Read the press release (in Hungarian, magyarul)

11th April 2016

The first stellar yields from metal-rich asymptotic giant branch models are now available from Karakas & Lugaro

11th February 2016

We have reached the maximum limit of 77 participants for the XII Torino and IV CSFK Astromineralogy workshop! Registration is now closed.

12th January 2016

We have found more stellar dinosaurs in the prehistory of the Solar System! (in Hungarian - magyarul)
English version

11th January 2016

We have just launched our new website. It is still under construction but please take a look around to find some information about us!