2026

On the 12th of August, 2026, despite the mostly cloudy sky, Oslo was able to see a partial solar eclipse.

From 21 to 24 September 2026, the ISWAT team studying the origins of spectral irradiance held its annual meeting at RoCS.

In memory of His Majesty King Harald V

On the 11th of August, 2026, ITA was visited by first-year Physics and Astronomy bachelor's students to learn about what kind of research goes on at the only astrophysics department in the country!

On the past Tuesday, August 11th of 2026, ITA welcomed its new master's students!

José Ricardo Correia arrived in Oslo in September 2025 to become a postdoctoral researcher at ITA. A Portuguese physicist with a master’s (2016) and PhD (2022) from the University of Porto, he now works with the Cosmology group to model the violent phase transitions that may have rippled through the infant Universe.

When we look up at the Sun, we see a brilliant disk that seems unchanging. Inside its atmosphere, however, invisible forces constantly reshape plasma, launch jets, and create dazzling bursts of light. 

Experiencing a total Solar eclipse is a highlight for many solar physicists. For RoCS researchers Reetika Joshi, Pooja Devi and Guoyin Chen, the Solar MHD 2026 meeting in A Coruña combined scientific discussions on solar eruptions with a spectacular total Solar eclipse on the Spanish coast.

On Thursday, 18 June 2026, ITA celebrated nine students who successfully defended their master’s theses. Family, friends, supervisors and staff joined the party to mark this milestone.

A planned centre on the Sun and space weather has been invited to submit a full application in the Research Council of Norway’s Centres of Excellence (SFF) call.

The Sun’s invisible magnetic fields shape everything from solar flares to space weather at Earth. At RoCS, postdoctoral fellow Harsh Mathur is developing new tools to read these fields from the light we observe.

The internationally respected researcher in celestial mechanics and orbital dynamics, Professor Kaare Aksnes, died in Lillehammer on 22 February 2026, at the age of 87. He was a professor at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, from 1988 until his retirement in 2008. He chaired the University of Oslo’s almanac committee and edited Almanakk for Norge (The Almanac for Norway) from 1993 to 2013. In 2006 he was awarded the King’s Medal of Merit in gold.

The SST’s exceptional spatial and temporal resolution is a key reason she chose to work at RoCS. Meet Pooja Devi, postdoctoral researcher.