Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research

A fun change to the regular work in the lab is the interaction with the public. Yesterday I visited the Astronomical Society of Hildesheim to talk about #Mercury and the #BepiColombo mission. 🛰️🚀🔭📡🧪
@mpsgoettingen.bsky.social

two scientists in front of a blackboard

meteorites and other samples arranged on a table before a blackboard with a scientist

Selfie of a teacher and a scientist in front of a school

selfie of a scientist in front of the Felix Klein Gymnasium in Göttingen

Yesterday, about 30 scientists from the Max Planck Institutes in Göttingen visited school classes to talk about #meteorites, #Mars, the #Sun and much more. Thanks for having us – and for all the great questions! See you next year! #MaxPlanckgehtzurSchule @mpi-nat.bsky.social @mpimmg.bsky.social

Congratulations, @steffenmau.bsky.social ! And a hearty welcome to the "Max Planck family" in Göttingen!

A collage of four photographs showing doctoral researchers in various work settings. From left to right and from top to bottom, the four pictures show: Two young women, one sitting and one standing, in front of computer screens on a desk in an office, looking at the screens and pointing. A young man in a light mint green T-Shirt in a lab environment, standing with his back to the viewer, his body facing machinery but his head turned back over his right shoulder to face the viewer. A person in white clean room attire including gloves and a hair net bent over a lab bench with equipment sitting on it, their hand stretched out to the piece's end that's oriented towards the viewer. Bottom right, a control room with desks and monitors as well as a large screen on the wall, operated by two young researchers sitting at the desks and focusing on the monitors and screens.

A seminar room with a group of roughly thirty young people sitting around a U-shaped conference table, looking up at the camera.

People posing for a group photo at the entrance of a historical building. It's round and extends upwards beyond the frame of the image.

The International Max Planck Research School for Solar System Science becomes a permanent institution in Göttingen and Braunschweig

The Solar System School, the joint graduate school of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, the University […]

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Researchers working in the lab, at the computer and in the cleanroom.

The Solar System School is now permanent! 🥳🥳
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The unique graduate program offers students from all over the world the opportunity to obtain a doctorate in solar system research. 🛰️☀️🔭
@uni-goettingen.de @tu-braunschweig.de @imprs-solar.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy

Group picture of nine scientists dressed in a black MPS T-shirt gathered around a statue of Max Planck in the foyer of the MPS

Tomorrow, Max Planck goes to school!
34 school classes will welcome a scientist from one of the Max Planck Institutes in Göttingen. From #MPSGoettingen, 16 scientists will participate and speak about #exoplanets, #solarstorms etc. #MaxPlanckgehtzurSchule
@mpi-nat.bsky.social @mpimmg.bsky.social

1-5 December 2025 Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain SO/PHI science & team meetings

Register now for the SO/PHI Science & Team Meetings from Dec. 1st – 5th, 2025 on Tenerife to discuss results from #SolarOrbiter ’s instrument SO/PHI!
More information here: meetings.iac.es/sophi2025/ Registration deadline is Oct. 31st.
@science.esa.int

#Sun #PHI #IAC #S3PC #MCC ☀️🛰️🔭

Book cover: Sabine Engel: Die Sonne - Megaheiß und superhell! WAS IST WAS TESSLOFF

2 pages featuring the Sunrise mission

photo of interview with the author at the back of the book

This new children’s book (in 🇩🇪) features 48 beautiful pages filled with cool facts about the Sun! On 2 of them, MPS-scientist Achim Gandorfer and MPS-engineer Bianca Grauf speak about our balloon mission #SunriseIII and tell what they love about our star. Enjoy!
#WASISTWAS #TesloffVerlag #Sunrise3

[job ad: two postdoc positions]

Two postdoctoral positions in the SWI project for science operations and data calibration

via https://www.mps.mpg.de/career/jobs

Postdoctoral researcher (f/m/d) in SWI Data Calibration […]

New institute brochure collage

Sun and Heliosphere cover

Aerial view of the institute

Cover for the Planetary Department

Our brand-new institute brochure is here! 🌞🪐✨
Across 40 pages, you’ll find an overview of our research topics, methods, and infrastructure—plus insights into public events, training, and more.
Enjoy reading! Follow this link: www.mps.mpg.de/8480541/inst...
#planets #sun #exoplanets #solarsystem

Scientists from #MPSGoettingen are contributing to and organizing part of the program of the Annual meeting of the German Astronomical Society #ag2025goerlitz

https://ag2025.astronomische-gesellschaft.de/program/index.php

In particular, the splinter session on "Observation and Characterization […]

Front page of a programme booklet, with the conference title and a qr code to the conference web page at the top, and an areal view of part of the city of Göttingen on the bottom two thirds of the front cover. On the sky part of the image, it says in large letters "PROGRAMME".

Following the "Geo-Erlebnis-Tag" during the weekend, preceding the Geo4Göttingen conference, the Geo4Change | Earth, Life, Climate, Resources, Materials | main program will start with plenary sessions for registered conference participants today […]

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MPS Scientist awaiting your visit at our booth!

MPS Scientist awaiting your visit at our booth!

Come and touch some space rocks and learn all about meteorites at the Geo-Erlebnis-Tag at the Geoscience Center of @uni-goettingen.de today from 11:00 - 16:00.
MPS scientists are looking forward to your visit!
www.geo4goettingen2025.de/geo-erlebnis...

MPS scientist touching moon and mars meteorites at the same time

On Sunday, September 14, starting at 11:00 AM during Geo Experience Day, you’ll have the chance to touch meteorites—and even touch the Moon and Mars at the same time!

geo4goettingen2025.de/geo-erlebnis...

#Geo4Göttingen #Geo4Change #Geosciences #Göttingen

Poster describing public talk by Mathias Maurer

In Göttingen tonight? Check out the public talk by @esa.int astronaut @astromatthias.esa.int at 19:00. The talk will be held in German at the central campus of @uni-goettingen.de

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collage of six photos showing the 2nd half of the lunar eclipse

crescent of the Moon during lunar eclipse

red Moon during lunar eclipse

Here are some lovely shots of last night’s #LunarEclipse taken by Kamlesh Bora, Maxime Piralla and Adrian Tuschinsky from #mpsgoettingen. The 1st two photos were taken in #Goettingen, the 3rd at the #GREGORtelescope on #Tenerife.

"If I had a time machine to go back to the past, what would I want to tell my PhD self?" Four IMPRS alumns treated us to valuable insights into their individual career paths and life choices after the PhD. Thank you Jean, Argyrios, Nina and Krzysztof for joining us at the retreat and sharing […]

pictures of all speakers of the lectures series "Wissenschaft beim Göttinger Literaturherbst"

As in every year, the literary festival Göttinger Literaturherbst, Oct 18th - Nov 11th, features a scientific lecture series covering topics from quantum theory to early childhood language acquisition.
Two lectures are in English. Take a look at the full program here: www.mps.mpg.de/von-babyspra...

Christian Renggli receives an ERC Starting Grant.

In the Knudsen cell (the small white cylinder right next to the tweezers), only a few millimeters in size, an equilibrium is established between molten rock and evaporating gas. The gas is then analyzed in the quadrupole mass spectrometer.

In the furnace, artificial magma (here in the crucible[KDB1]) is produced from silicate rock and additives at temperatures of up to 1500 degrees Celsius.

Molten #planets and early #atmospheres in the #lab: #mpsgoettingen scientist Christian Renggli receives one of this year’s ERC Starting Grants for his group ELMO (Experimental Laboratory Magma Ocean). Congratulations!!!
www.mps.mpg.de/erc-starting... @renggli.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu #ERCStG

View from the back of a large modern seminar room to the front of the room with the title slide of an exoplanets talk projected. A group of people are sitting on chairs in the room, anticipating the start of the talk.

Inside a large cupola with a wooden roof, a group of people are looking at a large refractor telescope. It's two very long tubes on a mount, painted dark green. The instrument is huge in comparison to the people standing underneath it.

People posing for a group picture in a large cupola with a wooden roof housing a large refractor telescope.

People posing for a group photo at the entrance of a historical building. It's round and extends upwards beyond the frame of the image.

Thank you so much to @AIP_Potsdam for hosting us today and showing us around some of the fascinating venues on Telegraphenberg in the Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein as well as your Potsdamer Babelsberg site! We saw the impressive Great Refractor, the […]

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An evening scene by the lake side: Colors are all subdued pinks and blues, with dark silhouettes. Sitting and standing on an elevated lake shore, a group of people only visible as silhouettes against the still reflecting surface of the lake and a dramatic sky above the treeline on the opposite shore.

A seminar room with a group of roughly thirty young people sitting around a U-shaped confernce table, looking up at the camera.

After arrival at this year's IMPRS retreat location yesterday, doctoral researchers are hard at work today, discussing various issues in dedicated working groups. We'll be staying here this week and still have some exciting days of talks, science and […]

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solar flare as seen by Solar Orbiter on September 5th and 6th, 2022

#ParkerSolarProbe was in the right place at the right time in Sept 2022: It passed through a magnetic reconnection region in the Sun's corona. #SolarOrbiter observed the event from a distance. Study led by #SwRI in
@natastron.nature.com
. #NASA
@science.esa.int

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YouTube video by TEDx Talks Could the sun be responsible for climate change? | Dr. Sami K. Solanki | TEDxHHN

Could the #Sun be responsible for #ClimateChange? In his #TEDx talk on the subject, #mpsgoettingen director Sami Solanki looks into our star’s capricious past, at its more recent behavior – and gives a clear and definite answer. View here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ21...

And here's a video of the flare!

emerging active region as seen by GREGOR

emerging active region as seen by GREGOR

Here are some great shots from our #GREGORSolarTelescope observation campaign in July. Peering into the #photosphere and #chromosphere, we caught several emerging active regions – and a #flare! This will help us study the plasma dynamics in active regions and how energy builds up to create a flare.

Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships: Expressions of interest can be submitted until 31 October 2025.

Director at Max Planck - a unique position! The Open Call for Expressions of Interest in Max Planck Directorships is open now and can be submitted by the 31st of October 2025. ➡️ mpg.de/directors - Please share the Open Call among potential candidates.

group picture of Jonathan Nölke and the members of the examination board

Jonathan Nölke with his PhD hat

Jonathan Nölke examining his PhD hat

#PhDCongratulations! 🥳🥳🥳Jonathan Nölke of the #IMPRS “Solar System School” has successfully defended his PhD thesis “Dark features in the solar corona and the underlying magnetic field studied with Solar Orbiter” at @tu-braunschweig.de ! #SolarOrbiter #Sun ☀️🛰️🔭

Are you an academic teacher or a researcher in solar system science or a related field interested in pointing your students to exciting PhD opportunities with us? Would you like to receive our Calls for applications (between one to four times per year) and notifications about new PhD project […]

Große Physik und große Verantwortung Vor hundert Jahren nahm das Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Strömungsforschung seine Arbeit auf. Aus ihm wurde das heutige Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation, das grundlegende Fragen d...

Das Max-Planck-Institut für Dynamik und Selbstorganisation in Göttingen feiert am 16. Juli seinen 100. Geburtstag. Ein Blick auf die Geschichte des Instituts und die Verantwortung, die daraus erwächst. www.mpg.de/25050354/100... #Wissenschaftsgeschiche #Physik