In the news

19.9.2008
Tapio Markkanen: International Year of Astronomy 2009

9.6.2008
Has the heaviest black hole in a binary star system been detected?

7.3.2008
ESO Press Release: Mapping the interior of interstellar clouds in great detail

12.6.2007
Annual report 2006

1.3.2006
Our research was graded with highest points in the University of Helsinki research assessment exercise.. For a detailed assessment, read:
Evaluation report, Department of Astronomy

10.2.2006
The SIXS Instrument By Finnish Astronomers Goes To Mercury

Dissertations at the Observatory

11.6.2008, Linnea Hjalmarsdotter
Spectral states and accretion geometries in Galactic black hole binaries

14.12.2007, Johanna Torppa
Lightcurve inversion for asteroid spins and shapes

8.12.2007 Mikael Granvik,
Asteroid identification using statistical orbital inversion methods

Older news

ESO Messenger No. 117 (September 2004): "Astronomy in Finland"

Finland joins ESO
ESO Press Release