Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research

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 ☀️🛰️🔭

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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

Podcast: Magnetfeld der Sonne - Ist das ihr letztes Rätsel? Die Sonne ist ein lebendiger Stern: Die Oberfläche brodelt, Sonnenflecken tauchen auf und vergehen, Eruptionen schleudern Ströme geladener Teilchen ins All. Sogar ihr Magnetfeld dreht sich regelmäßig ...

The German radio station "Bayern 2" has devoted the latest episode of its show “IQ” to the #Sun - and to Solar Orbiter’s first views of the solar poles. Interview partner is Sami Solanki of #mpsgoettingen : www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/urn:... In German. Enjoy!
#SolarOrbiter @science.esa.int

GREGOR Operations Center at MPS

Computer screens showing the telescope and the Sun

Computer screen showing a magnetogram of the Sun and an interesting active region

GREGOR Operations Center at MPS

Hoping for a #flare: During the final days of our 2 week observation campaign with #GREGORSolarTelescope on Tenerife, scientists work remote from the “GREGOR Operations Center” at #mpsgoettingen and zoom in on a recently emerged active region that looks promising. Thanks for all the support onsite!

#PhDCongratulations! 🥳🥳🥳Ziwen Huang of the #IMPRS “Solar System School” has successfully defended her PhD thesis “Investigating small-scale dynamics: Analysis and Interpretation of Solar Orbiter observations” at @tu-braunschweig.de !

MPS athletes before the race

MPS athletes after the race

Ole Hennseler finishing the race in first place overall!

Last Wednesday, MPS participated in the company cup of the Altstadtlauf in Göttingen. 12 motivated athletes set off on the 5.5 km course in scorching heat of 37°C.
All reached the finish line, and MPS Team 1 secured 26th place out of 253 teams in the team ranking.🏅
Ole Hennseler even won the race!🥳

The #PLATO mission has reached an important milestone: The optical bench with all 26 cameras as been assembled. Read more here: www.mps.mpg.de/plato-fully-... #PLATODataCenter #exoplanet @uni-goettingen.de

Eyes meet brain for our next exoplanet mission, as Plato's payload module is attached to its service module 👀🤝🧠

We've condensed the hours-long, millimetre-precision procedure into just 1.5 minutes in the timelapse below.

More info 👉 www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

🧪☄

Ein Whiteboard an dem Fotografien hängen. Die Bilder zeigen verschiedene Weitwinkelaufnahmen einer Sonnenfinsternis. Vor der Tafel, die Rücken dem Fotografen zugewandt, stehen mehrere Menschen, betrachten die Bilder und zeigen darauf.

Aufnahme einer Vorrichtung zur Erzeugung Chladnischer Klangfiguren. Eine flache Scheibe ist horizontal montiert und mit einem darunter angebrachten großen Lautsprecher verbunden. Eine Person streut Sand auf die Fläche, die durch die Anregung des Lautsprechers vibriert. Der Sand sammelt sich in den Knotenpunkten der Schwingung und erzeugt Muster.

Eine Scheibe eines sehr großen Meteoriten mit metallisch glänzender Schnittfläche liegt schräg aufgestellt auf einem Tisch. Rechts und links des Tisches drängeln sich Menschen und berühren die Fläche mit ihren Fingern.

In einem Foyer mit hoher Decke ist ein großes Teleskop ausgestellt und mit dicker roter Kordel abgesperrt. Durch den gesamten Raum bewegen sich viele Menschen. Eine Gruppe davon unterhält sich mit einem Mitarbeiter, der direkt vor dem Teleskop innerhalb der Absperrung steht.

Impressionen von der Nacht des Wissens 2025 #ndwgoe

Knapp 6000 Gäste erlebten am 21. Juni 2025 die Nacht des Wissens am MPS. In der verlinkten Bildergalerie findet ihr einige unserer schönsten Fotos aus der Nacht […]

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Otto Hahn medal awardees group picture at the award ceremony: More than two dozen young people on four levels of steep stair steps in formal attire all facing the camera, with a green garden in the background.

Björn Müller, researcher at #MPSGoettingen and #IMPRS at #UniGoettingen graduate, has been awarded the Otto Hahn Medal for outstanding achievements in his dissertations. The @maxplanckgesellschaft presented all awards for 2024 at its annual meeting on […]

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Congrats to Cai Dieball from our institute & Björn Müller @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social on receiving the Otto Hahn Medal 🏅! @maxplanck.de is honoring them for their outstanding dissertations. Read more about their research here ⬇️‬‬‬‬
www.mpinat.mpg.de/5044146/pr_2...

Congratulations!!!
Read more about the two Otto Hahn medalists from the Max Planck Institutes in #Goettingen here: www.mps.mpg.de/8464437/pm20...

Sonnenuntergang bei der Nacht des Wissens. @ndw-goe.bsky.social | @mpsgoettingen.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy | @mpi-nat.bsky.social

Wir haben heute Nacht überwältigende 5837 Besucher*innen bei der #ndwgoe am MPI für Sonnensystemforschung gezählt! Ihr wart mal wieder ein ganz großartiges Publikum, wir haben uns wahnsinnig über euer Interesse gefreut. Wir wünschen allen Gästen und Mitarbeiter*innen einen guten Heimweg, erholt […]

Did you see the reenactment of the Sunrise III flight with a cute little model at the kids' show? https://academiccloud.social/@imprs_solar/114723459947791480 Meanwhile, all our visitors of course also got to see the real Sunrise III observatory up close […]

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Have you ever looked at clouds or water and tried to understand the complex system of swirls and ribbons?

To take it a step further: Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, and its moons still pose puzzles of this kind, which we hope to unravel […]

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Helium-filled household balloons being attached to a telescope model. In the foreground, little people watching what's happening on stage.

A tiny Sunrise model is floating through the room.

A person standing on a table, reaching up to the balloon with a pair of scissors and cutting the string between balloon and the attached model.

And then the Sunrise III flight, kids' version! Just look at how absolutely adorable this demonstration turned out to be 🤩 A launch with a bunch of helium balloons (several of them just to be sure!), a short flight, and finally the landing sequence - […]

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A round blue cloth with little white balls rolling towards its depressed center. An audience gathering around the installation.

Cut-out shot of the blue cloth showing about a quarter of the circle, with more action among the various balls rolling around this time.

A person sitting on a rotating chair, holding a spinning wheel. Presenters standing around, and a group of kids sitting on the floor in the background looking towards the action on the stage.

Curved spacetime! Angular momentum conservation! It's hands-on physics with cool space applications.

@ndw_goe

#ndwgoe #ndwgoemps #goettingen #mpsgoettingen #imprs

A teen bending over print-outs of rainbow-colored stripes: a star's spectrum. More people crowd around the same table, the picture is taken peeking through a small gap between two of them.

A picture that is mostly dark. Near the image center, two light blobs in red and yellow color as projected into a wall and appear distinctively off-set. Two kids' heads are barely visible in the dark, looking into the direction of the projection.

Spectroscopy! First, theory: this is what a star's spectrum looks like - a rainbow 🌈 Then, application: how to separate an image into its the two colors that is is made up from using a prism or or grating. It needs to be dark to see this well, so we had […]

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A wide-angle view of a courtyard, framed by two stories of its host buildung. In the courtyard, chalk drawings on the floor, a parasol, and a round blue cloth. Little people scurrying around it all.

Our kid's program at the Night of Science: there was so much to see and to do! Here's a bit of a recap of how much fun we had interacting with you during various activities. A thread

@ndw_goe

#ndwgoe #ndwgoemps #goettingen #mpsgoettingen #imprs

Still awake? So are we!
The vibes at the Night of Science @ndw-goe.bsky.social 🌙🦉 are amazing, & the curiosity? Even better!
Thanks to everyone who’s already stopped by. And if you are still out & about: Come join us! 🚲🚍
📍 @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social & Faculty of Physics. #ndwgoe

A night of science booklet in DIN LANG format with a large owl's eye on the title and the night of science text announcement. Sticking out at the top and to the right side of the thick booklet, there are lots and lots of colorful post-its.

Wow, some of you *really* came prepared! This visitor had their kids mark everything in the program booklet they were interested in and wanted to see. We hope you get to catch it all!

A mother and child engaged in face painting. The painting is on blue background with white and yellow stars on top.

Close-up of four entangled arms, one of them with a smiling happy blue planet painted on it, and a pencil adding finishing touches.

Fill view of a blue-and-yellow bouncy castle in front of a large white building in the background. People are swarming around it.

The face painting station from a bit of a distance. People sitting under a large umbrella giving shade. In the foreground, some grasses and flowers beautifully lit by the late afternoon sun.

It's a perfect early evening for our solar-system-themed kid's activities: little painted stars glowing in the sunlight at the face painting station, swirling planets painted on busy little arms, and of course everything is in motion at the bouncy […]

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Und inzwischen probieren es unsere Besucher*innen begeistert selbst aus.

@ndw_goe

#ndwgoe #ndwgoemps #goettingen #mpsgoettingen #mars #mond #meteorit

Bei uns könnt ihr heute den Mond und den Mars gleichzeitig berühren! Christian Renggli hat uns heute nachmittag schonmal gezeigt wie's geht.

@ndw_goe

#ndwgoe #ndwgoemps #goettingen #mpsgoettingen #mars #mond #meteorit

What's this "transit method" that the #ESA #PLATOmission team will be using to detect extrasolar planets? Experience transits firsthand in our pendulum experiment that models how a planet passes in front of its star and changes the brightness that we can […]

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Explore, marvel, & participate at the Night of Science @ndw-goe.bsky.social 🌙🦉! How do proteins work? How do they regulate our blood pressure? See in the video (in German) what awaits you at our booth by @compbiophys.bsky.social. #ndwgoe
📍 1st floor @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social

We will be here until midnight – come grab your dose of science! 👋🙂 #ndwgoe

From starfish to jellyfish to mammalian egg cells – watch the video (in German) to find out what awaits you at our “In the beginning was the egg” booth by @schuhlab.bsky.social & @plenart.bsky.social ‬at the Night of Science @ndw-goe.bsky.social. #ndwgoe
📍1st floor @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social