Last week saw the 9th Heidelberg International Symposium on High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (γ-2026) take place in its birthplace: Heidelberg, Germany.

Many H.E.S.S. members attended, as pictured in the image, and had an array of interesting contributions! This included five invited talks from Marianne Lemoine-Goumard, Laura Olivera-Nieto, Gavin Rowell, Andrew Taylor, and our director, Lars Mohrmann.

The lower image shows some of the H.E.S.S. early career researchers that attended – these are PhD students and early career post-docs!