Article · 2026HU
Finding an atmosphere on a TNO beyond Pluto?
How do you know a small body has an atmosphere and why is this small object capable of its retention?
Read →I'm an astronomer at Konkoly Observatory, working in computational astrophysics. I aim to connect theory results to clear observables through papers that tell a story.
Topics
Dynamical effects of mass loss
How exploding massive stars reshape their companions' orbit — forming pulsar planets, double neutron stars, and rogue planets.
Signs of disintegrating planets
What the gas disks around metal-polluted white dwarfs and the infrared Ca II emission reveal about the slow death of exoplanets.
Celestial sunflowers
How the rings and moons of asteroids and trans-Neptunian objects of all shapes and sizes survive radiation pressure.
Papers
2026
Rings Around Non-spherical Worlds: Sub-mm Dust Retention Around Triaxial Small Bodies in the Solar System
Zsolt Regály, Viktória Fröhlich, Csilla Kalup & Csaba Kiss
PASP · 138, 054401
2025
Life in the Dark: Potential Urability of the Moons of Rogue Planets
Viktória Fröhlich & Zsolt Regály
A&A · 704, A349
Limits of Standard Tidal Models at Quaoar: Matching Weywot's Orbit, Missing the Spin
Zsolt Regály, Viktória Fröhlich & Csaba Kiss
PASP · 137, 114401
Fine-tuned Supernova or Failed Explosion? Decoding the Origins of the G3425 Binary
Zsolt Regály, Viktória Fröhlich & József Vinkó
ApJL · 988, L7
Celestial Sunflowers: Survival of Rings around Small Planetary Bodies under Solar Radiation Pressure
Zsolt Regály, Viktória Fröhlich & Csaba Kiss
A&A · 697, A116
2024
Origin of Ca II Emission around Polluted White Dwarfs
Viktória Fröhlich & Zsolt Regály
A&A · 692, A25
2023
Mitigating Potentially Hazardous Asteroid Impacts Revisited
Zsolt Regály, Viktória Fröhlich & Peter Berczik
A&A Letters · 677, L6
Double Neutron Star Formation via Consecutive Type II Supernova Explosions
Viktória Fröhlich, Zsolt Regály & József Vinkó
MNRAS · 523, 4957–4969
As an educator I want to show people the beauty of the night sky and that science and art are really just the two sides of the same coin.
Much of this work is done as vice president of the Vega Astronomical Association.
Articles are written in Hungarian. Titles are translated for clarity. Full list or English translation available on request.
Library
Definitive works
Short Series · 2026HU
Contemplative stardust
Where are we, where are others? How do planets form? How do we search for life outside the Solar System?
Read →Short series · 2025HU
Life in extreme environments
Interviews on how life could survive on the wildest known exoplanets: without a star or orbiting a pulsar.
Read →Talk · 2025HU
Ask the Astronomer! IV.
Round the table conversation with professional astronomers at the VEGA'25 amateur astronomy astrocamp.
Watch →Talk · 2025HU
Habitability
What are the building blocks of life, and where can we find them? How rare is life, really?
Watch →Essay · 2025HU
Look sweetie, there is Polaris!
How to touch the souls of professionals who never saw the night sky. Amateur astronomy @ a scientific conference.
Read →Article · 2025HU
Thoughts on exomoons and their habitability
How can an moon of another planets sustain life? Can they be the first cradle for extraterrestrial beings?
Read →Talk · 2025HU
110 brushstrokes of the Universe
Telling the stories behind drawing all of the 110 Messier objects.
Watch →Essay · 2024HU
From dusk till dawn: amateur astronomy @ Piszkéstető Station
Spending a whole night under the summer sky with co-workers. My most awe-inspiring text.
Read →Essay · 2022HU
Reflecting on the VEGA'22 astrocamp
How to spend your time most wonderfully in a commintiy so strong and such in awe of the night sky.
Read →Article · 2022HU
TOI-500, an expolanet system with a peculiar past
Interview with the discoverer of one of the most intriguing exoplanetary systems today.
Read →Article · 2022HU
Silent black holes
How the most massive stars end their lives - not in a bang, but a silent collapse.
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Teasers
Science-y
Dance of hungry ghosts - How stellar remnants eat up planets for breakfast
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