An international research team has analyzed data from 41 million galaxies in order to estimate the distribution of matter in the universe. The data confirm a long-established model – much to the team’s surprise.

Germany’s members of the Euclid Consortium have played a significant role in producing the mission’s first large set of survey data which the European Space Agency has just released. Researchers from the Argelander Institute for Astronomy (AIfA) of the University of Bonn have been involved in these activities. The data includes stunning images of deep fields with a breathtaking number of 26 million galaxies, many showing their detailed structures. More than 380,000 galaxies have been characterized according to their shapes and distances. Nevertheless, this impressive milestone is only a foretaste of what we can expect in the coming years. 

A delegation from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in the Ghanaian city of Kumasi has taken part in a German Physical Society symposium, also extending a memorandum of understanding with the University of Bonn during the visit.

During the week February 24 - 28, 2025, the first Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) on Physics within the Erasmus Programme took place at the University of Bonn, Germany.

On Weiberfastnacht, after a 10-year break, the Physics Institutes once again held a carnival party in the foyer of the Wolfgang-Paul-Hörsaal.

The "Stiftung für Physik und Astronomie" in Bonn honors academic performance and commitment in the study of physics (teaching degree and major subject) and astrophysics with the Jasbinsek Kunkelmann-Stipendium  for the Master's program (one-year scholarship of € 300 per month). The scholarship is granted from 01.10.2025 to 30.09.2026.

A team of students guided by the Argelander Institute for Astronomy at the University of Bonn has won a competition organized by Wissenschaft im Dialog (WiD) with a communication-centered idea for a modular escape room called “2051: Energie im Weltraum” (“2051: Energy in Outer Space”). The project team is to receive €10,000 to make its idea a reality between now and the end of the year. 

The world’s first physics show musical returns to the big stage on 27 March to 30 March, 2025. In two entertaining hours, the physics show musical offers the audience interesting facts about our blue planet with live music, live singing and lots of humor.