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For some #ag2026garching continues today ... in Munich at the Deutsches Museum where the astronomy history working group is meeting.

(My) final act at #ag2026garching: a great crash course by Stefanie Mühle about radio interferometry.

The five-hours (!) astronomy history tour of #ag2026garching in Munich yesterday was kinda centered around optics pioneer Josef Fraunhofer.

From the #ag2026garching @… HQ tour: a mirror segment for demonstration - and where hardware for the giant telescope is prepared.

From the #ag2026garching yesterday afternoon: at the didactics splinter and the traditional public talk.

And on the final day of #ag2026garching we're gonna learn what dark matter is actually made of ... opening slide of the talk by Giulia Despali.

Next at #ag2026garching came Anna de Graaff explaining Webb's #LittleRedDots as #BlackHoleStars - as discussed first in https://www.mpg.de/25316826/black-hole-stars a year ago - or something similar.

First talk at #ag2026garching today: Jean-Michel Desert on the Webb revolution in analyzing exoplanet atmospheres.

Some astronomy outreach topics disussed in the #ag2026garching spinter.

Noted that hardly any of the posters displayed at #ag2026garching show actual conclusions ... well, this one has the answer all over it. ;-)

Another component of the Universe "nobody asked for" was discussed by Sebastian Wolf at #ag2026garching: hot extrazodiacal dust ...

Huge galaxy surveys of the past, present and future (and how Euclid's upcoming first data release will fit in) - from Hendrik Hildebrandt's #ag2026garching talk today.

Exclusive view of the Garching @… HQ from the roof of the ESO Supernova for participants of the #ag2026garching astronomy outreach splinter meeting.

In his #ag2026garching talk Genzel stressed that we still have no *proof* that SgrA* is a SMBH as a few alternatives haven't been excluded yet - we need to get much closer to the Schwarzschild radius still.

Now on the #ag2026garching stage: #Nobel laureat Reinhard #Genzel on, what else, massive black holes.

Some perspectives on the #ag2026garching astronomy conference in Garching, Germany: the group picture taking - and a party by the Square Kilometer Array on the occasion of the huge radio interferometer taking off in earnest some time next year.

The most intriguing poster at the #ag2026garching meeting ... the QR code points to https://researchpresentation.freehosting.dev/?i=3

Is #EarlyDarkEnergy a solution for the #HubbleTension? At #ag2026garching Esra Bulbul today highlighted the brand-new paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.07834

The #ag2026garching astronomy conference is underway, traditionally beginning with awards: https://www.astronomische-gesellschaft.de/en/News/awards-for-outstanding-achievements-in-astronomy - here Marta Volonteri receives the Karl Schwarzschild Medal.

"I put my money on LISA" to finally prove the existence of #BlackHoles via #GravitationalWaves: thus Reinhard Genzel concluded his #ag2026garching talk - and then showed the hilarious short https://youtu.be/8WQXGQYi5kg

Lots of acronyms, one message: science with the #SKAO - the Square Kilometer Array - will begin NEXT YEAR. And you, yes, everybody, will be invited to propose observing targets for this huge radio interferometer while in its science verification phase: Stay tuned for the first call in roughly half a year. From the #ag2026garching SKAO splinter session.

Science begins with the choice of convenient units ... here Karl Schwarzschild Medal winner Marta Volonteri uses millipc or milliparsec - which is 3.09 x 10^10 kilometers. #ag2026garching

The Ludwig Biermann award went to Caroline Gieser who's now talking about molecular clouds and protostars - so together with Volonteri's lecture about black holes after 2 hours #ag2026garching has already covered most of what there is in Universe. ;-)

RE: #MillyWay Trail to #Garching - #ag2026garching