Lecture by astronomer Kirill Maslennikov “Astronomical Highlights of 2025”

Lecture by astronomer Kirill Maslennikov
“Astronomical Highlights of 2025”

As usual at the beginning of the year, we look back at the key events that took place in the science of the Universe over the past year. We don’t want to spoil everything — but you can probably guess quite a lot already. Here are a few hints:

• News from an interstellar comet

• The opening of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory

• Supermassive black holes in the Early Universe

• The distribution of dark matter and dark energy in space and time
  (results from the DESI and Euclid surveys)

…and a few more surprises.
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