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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research: Cutting edge scientific research on our Sun, the planets and their moons, asteroids and comets.
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#mpsgoettingen wishes you happy holidays and a healthy and successful New Year 2026!

Featuring prominently on our season's greetings card: the first images of the Sun's south pole 🛰️ ☀️

During its flyby of the Sun at the end of March this year, the […]

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A view of half the Sun in short wavelengths, with the disk surface appearing very active and the inner corona outside the disk glowing bright. Towards the bottom of the disk, a map is superimposed that is labelled "Sol Australis Incognita". At the bottom right just outside the disk, a space craft has been inserted, and below that centered the words "Season‘s Greetings".
December 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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L. Nortmann, A. Reiners and S. Dreizler are advertising 3 PhD positions in Exoplanet Science at @unigoettingen in the fields of exoplanet atmospheres, radial velocity measurements, and astronomical instrumentation.

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December 23, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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Congratulations! For re-examining and improving a 33-year-old reconstruction of #solarirradiance, #MPSGoettingen scientist Theodosios Chatzistergos received the #KeesdeJagerPrize for best publication in the journal #SolarPhysics. The award was now presented. www.mps.mpg.de/kees-de-jage...
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December 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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#soho30 SOHO 30 years launch anniversary - celebratory cake at #mpsgoettingen now!
A picture of the SOHO launch, with two cakes draped left and right to the framed picture.
December 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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For ESA’s mission #Vigil to forecast dangerous space weather, #mpsgoettingen is providing one of the key instruments: Vigil's Photospheric Magnetic Field Imager. Read more about the instrument and the science we plan to do with it here: www.mps.mpg.de/esa-s-space-...
#Vigil #PMI #CM25 #spaceweather
ESA’s Space Probe Vigil to Warn of Solar Storms
The ESA Ministerial Council has now decided on the further roadmap for the Vigil space mission. The space probe is expected to detect and potentially forecast hazardous space weather from 2031 onwards...
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November 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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When in 2029, ESA’s #Ramses spacecraft accompanies #asteroid #Apophis on its very close flyby of #Earth, a particle spectrometer from #mpsgoettingen will be on board. Read more here: www.mps.mpg.de/a-companion-...
Great to be along for the ride! @esa.int @science.esa.int #CM25 #2029Flyby
A Companion for Near-Earth Asteroid Apophis
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November 28, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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#PhDCongratulations! 🥳🥳🥳Johannes Hölken of the #IMPRS “Solar System School” has successfully defended his PhD thesis “Towards solar many-line inversions” at the @uni-goettingen.de ! 🔭☀️
Group picture after the successful defense Group picture after the successful defense Johannes Hölken with his doctoral hat Close-up of the doctoral hat
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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#Theia and Earth were neighbors! Read more about this study and Theia's likely "birthplace" in the inner Solar System here: www.mps.mpg.de/theia-and-ea...
November 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Today was the last day of ESA's JUICE Science Working Team Meeting at #mpsgoettingen in Göttingen – with lots of talks, discussions, and planning for the months and years ahead. Thanks to everyone for being here and making the meeting a success!
@esa.int @science.esa.int #JUICE #SWT
Group picture infront of main entrance of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
November 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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Finally here! Two years after #NASA 's #OSIRIS-REx mission returned samples of #asteroid #Bennu to Earth, we have now received 319 mg to study in our labs. We are hoping to determine Bennu’s isotopic composition and learn more about its “birthplace” in the Solar System.
#OSIRISREx #AsteroidBennu
Hand in purple lab glove holds a cyclindric, silvery sample container with the label "PROPERTY OF NASA - OSIRIS-Rex".
November 6, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Does the solar magnetic field migrate towards the poles faster than expected? Results using the data from #ESA ’s #SolarOrbiter are published today in #ApJL. More infos here: www.mps.mpg.de/sun-first-gl...
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Sun: First Glimpse of Polar Magnetic Field in Motion
In March, ESA's spacecraft Solar Orbiter had its first clear view of the Sun’s south pole. A first analysis has now been published. Huge cells of hot plasma cover the Sun and create the large-scale, ...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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In this documentary, several protagonists, including #mpsgoettingen scientist Patrick Daly, recount the ups and downs of a unique, 25-year space mission.
“They are our children, our family”, Daly says of the instruments aboard #Cluster. He has been working on Cluster for 39 years. Enjoy!
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🗓️ Coming soon! The untold story of our pioneering 25-year #Cluster mission that studied the invisible solar storms impacting our Earth 🧪🔭

☀️ 'Seas of the Sun: The story of Cluster', a documentary by @spacerocksofficial.bsky.social and @science.esa.int, will premiere here, 30 October, 19:00 CET 👇
Seas of the Sun: The story of Cluster (Full documentary)
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November 4, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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ESA’s space probe #JUICE is headed towards a truly unexpected encounter: on November 2nd, observations of interstellar object #3I/ATLAS will begin. Read more about contributions from #mpsgoettingen to the campaign here: www.mps.mpg.de/juice-and-3i... #comet3i #comet3iatlas
JUICE and 3I/ATLAS: An Unexpected Encounter in Space
3I/ATLAS, the third known interstellar object to date, is currently traveling through the Solar System and reached its closest point to the Sun yesterday. In the next days, 3I/ATLAS is barely visible ...
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October 30, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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How should #Mars samples be handled upon arrival on Earth? What measurements are necessary? In new report, the Measurement Definition Team of #NASA and @esa.int including Christian Schröder from #MPSGoettingen and Andreas Pack of @uni-goettingen.de gives answers: www.mps.mpg.de/preparing-fo...
Andreas Pack (left) and Christian Schröder (right) standing in front of a large model of Mars.
October 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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Here comes the Sun! ☀️
After a 6-month guest appearance in the exhibition “What the Quantum?!” in the @forumwissen.bsky.social , our model of the Sun is back home. Thanks for safely transporting the Sun through Göttingen.
And many thanks for the opportunity to shine as part of the exhibition!
Two people pushing a large model of the Sun into a van. In the background: the Forum Wissen. Four people lifting a large model of the Sun out of a white van. In the background: main entrance of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research.
October 23, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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3 unique views of the #Sun, 1 #workshop! Register now for the Solar Orbiter-IRIS-Aditya Joint Workshop taking place from March 16th-19th 2026 in Berlin. ☀️
More infos here: www.mps.mpg.de/sow2026
#SolarOrbiter # IRIS #Aditya #heliophysics #ESA #NASA #ISRO
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Solar Orbiter IRIS Aditya Joint Workshop March 16-19 2026 www.mps.mpg.de/sow2026
October 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Thanks to basic research, we learn more about the universe, the building blocks of life, and the origins of communication. At Göttingen’s Literaturherbst, astrophysicist Jason Steffen and biologist Kathleen Wermke will share their insights. @mpimmg.bsky.social @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social
October 9, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Cool photos and kind words! The Göttingen secondary school THG on our school project #MaxPlanckgehtzurSchule: www.thg-goettingen.de/weil-man-nie...
Many thanks! It was a pleasure to be there. See you next year!
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Weil man nie auslernt: Max Planck geht in die Schule! - Theodor-Heuss-Gymnasium
Am 1. Oktober war es wieder soweit, Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler der Max Planck Institute gingen stellvertretend für ihren Namensgeber in die Schule und wir freuen uns, dass sie auch das …
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October 9, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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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. 🛰️🚀🔭📡🧪
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October 7, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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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
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October 2, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Congratulations, @steffenmau.bsky.social ! And a hearty welcome to the "Max Planck family" in Göttingen!
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We are thrilled to announce that @steffenmau.bsky.social, one of Germany’s leading sociologists, has been appointed Director at our Institute. He will lead a new Department on Inequality, Transformation & Conflict, addressing pressing societal challenges via cutting-edge social science research.
October 2, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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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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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.
October 1, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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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. 🛰️☀️🔭
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Researchers working in the lab, at the computer and in the cleanroom.
October 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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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
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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
September 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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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.
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#Sun #PHI #IAC #S3PC #MCC ☀️🛰️🔭
1-5 December 2025 Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain SO/PHI science & team meetings
September 24, 2025 at 12:20 PM