H.E.S.S. Announcements
The Galactic Centre is a rich environment that hosts a multitude of fascinating objects, many of which can be studied through gamma rays. A new study now published in Astronomy...
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The annual award supported by the L’Oréal foundation, the UNESCO and the French Academy of Sciences recognises PhD students and postdoctoral researchers for the excellence of their work and their...
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A new H.E.S.S. publication has just appeared in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. For this study, we have investigated how the spectra of a class of distant gamma-ray...
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Francis Halzen from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, principal investigator of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, is the recipient of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics! He was awarded the prize for...
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A Brazilian consortium comprising the APOEMA group at the São Carlos Physics Institute at University of São Paulo (IFSC/USP) and the Astrogyn group at Goiás Federal University (UFG) joins the...
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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...
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The H.E.S.S. Collaboration regularly shares updates through communications, press releases, and announcements. These provide insights into recent discoveries, highlight ongoing research, and offer glimpses into the collaborative efforts of scientists working to understand the high-energy universe. Through these updates, H.E.S.S. engages with both the scientific community and the public, sharing significant findings and events that mark progress in gamma-ray astrophysics and the exploration of cosmic phenomena.
Last week, the 1st semester 2026 H.E.S.S. Collaboration Meeting took place 21–24 April in Zeuthen, near Berlin, Germany. With more than 70 registered in-person participants, the meeting was very well...
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In a new publication, published in the Journal of High Energy Astrophysics, we explore a multi-wavelength outburst of the blazar PKS 0903-57 that was observed in 2020. Through the detailed...
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This publication reports the discovery of a pulsar wind nebula in the complex Vela Junior region. Gamma-ray emission from this region has traditionally been attributed to the supernova remnant; however,...
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In this catalogue, published in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, we present results from 15 years of gamma-ray burst observations with H.E.S.S., carried out between 2004 and 2019. While we...
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In a new publication in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics, we present the discovery of gamma-ray emission from the blazar PKS 0346–27. At a cosmological redshift of z=0.991, PKS 0346–27...
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