Astronomy and Space Physics
Image: ESO/A. Ghizzi Panizza
At Uppsala University, we study the universe at all scales, far and close-by: galaxies far away and our own Milky Way, distant stars and their exoplanets but also our Sun and its planets including Earth, and fundamental processes happening at atomic scale in planetary or stellar atmospheres.
The research in Astronomy and Space Physics are made across a range of fields, from the near-Earth environment to the earliest stars in distant galaxies. We are using state-of-the-art equipment for observations and data collection, as well as pioneering new theories and techniques.
Stellar Physics
Read more about our research on stellar atmosphere models, magnetic fields, winds and compositions.
Theoretical Atomic Astrophysics
Read more about our research on fundamental atomic structure, radiative processes, and electron- and atom-atom collisions.
Astronomical infrastructures
Read more about our contributions to ANDES, CRIRES+, MARCS, VALD and VAMDC.
Galaxies and cosmology
Read more about our research into dark matter, the first stars and galaxies, starburst galaxies and the Milky Way.
Extrasolar Planetary Systems
Read more about our research into protoplanetary disks, and the properties of exoplanets and exoplanet systems.
Space, Plasma, and Solar System Physics
Read more about our research into the solar system, fundamental processes and space weather.
Publications
- 3D NLTE sodium abundances in late-type stars Abundance corrections and synthetic spectraCanocchi, G.; Wang, E. X.; Amarsi, Anish et al., 2026
- A radio oval above Earth's auroral ovalWu, Siyuan; Whiter, Daniel K.; Lamy, Laurent et al., 2026
- Accurate transition and hyperfine data in Ag I from the multiconfiguration Dirac-Hartree-Fock and relativistic coupled-cluster methodsJonsson, P.; Sahoo, B. K.; Caliskan, Sema et al., 2026
Contact
- Programme Professor Observational Astrophysics
- Oleg Kochukhov
- Programme Professor Space and Plasma Physics
- Yuri Khotyaintsev
- Programme Professor Theoretical Astrophysics
- Paul Barklem
- Head of Division
- Eric Stempels