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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany

MPI · Sun and Heliosphere · Solar and Stellar Interiors · Planetary Science […]

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Merkt euch doch schon mal diese Termine unserer Vortragsreihe 2026 vor:

Im Feuerwerk der Sonne

In der aktuellen öffentlichen Vortragsreihe berichten von Februar bis Mai 2026 sechs Forschende von der stürmischen Beziehung zwischen Sonne und Erde […]

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Nachtaufnahme: Über dem Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung glüht der Himmel rot mit Nordlichtern.
December 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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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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#phdcongratulations! 🥳🥳 🥳 Johannes Hölken of the @imprs_solar has successfully defended his PhD thesis “Towards solar many-line inversions” at the @unigoettingen !
Group picture after the successful defense Close-up of the doctoral hat Group picture after the successful defense Johannes Hölken with his doctoral hat
November 25, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Selfie aus dem Reinraum: Dreharbeiten für Sat1regional führten ein Kamerateam jetzt in einen unserer Kontrollräume. Von dort hatten unsere Gäste einen guten Blick in unsere Reinräume. Dort arbeiten Wissenschaftler*innen und Ingenieur*innen in […]

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Ein Kamerateam sowie MPS Mitarbeiter*innen in der Nähe des Reinraums. Eine Person in Reinraumkleidung schaut von links unten ganz nah ins Bild, sie macht ein Selfie. Ein Beobachtungsinstrument dominiert von einer schüsselförmigen Antenne.
November 25, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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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 #juice #esa_juice #swt
group picture in front of main entrance of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
November 14, 2025 at 4:04 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 9:03 AM
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How should #mars samples be handled upon arrival on Earth? What measurements are necessary to unlock their full scientific potential? In a new report, the Measurement Definition Team of #nasa and #esa
including Christian Schröder from #mpsgoettingen and […]

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Andreas Pack (left) and Christian Schröder (right) standing infront of a large model of Mars.
October 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Here comes the Sun! ☀️
After a 6-month guest appearance in the exhibition “What the Quantum?!” in the Göttingen science museum @forumwissengoe , our model of the Sun is back home. Thanks for safely transporting the Sun through Göttingen.

And many thanks […]

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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 12:54 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: https://www.mps.mpg.de/sow2026

#solarorbiter # IRIS #aditya #heliophysics #esa #nasa #isro
SOLAR ORBITER | IRIS | ADITYA JOINT WORKSHOP March 16-19, 2026 www.mps.mpg.de/sow2026
October 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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The Solar System School is now permanent! 🥳🥳

The unique graduate program offers students from all over the world the opportunity to obtain a doctorate in solar system research. 🛰️☀️🔭

Joint PR @mpsgoettingen […]

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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 2, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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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 […]

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New institute brochure collage Sun and heliosphere cover Aerial view of the institute Cover for the planetary department
September 18, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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@DrReneHeller of #mpsgoettingen just opened the first session of the extra-solar planet splinter at the #ag2025goerlitz meeting. Current program: https://ag2025.astronomische-gesellschaft.de/view_splinter.php?session=ExoPlanets

#AG2025Goerlitz #germanastroaoc #exoplanets #extrasolarplanets
A white male speaker behind a speaker's desk with the conference logo displayed at the desk front, and a large screen embedded in the walls of an old building behind him. The screen shows an overview of various talks scheduled for the afternoon.
September 16, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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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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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".
September 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Here are some lovely shots of last night’s #lunareclipse taken by Kamlesh Bora, Maxime Piralla and Adrian Tuschinsky from #mpsgoettingen. The first two photos were taken in #goettingen, the third at the #gregortelescope on #tenerife.

#astrophotography #astrodon #moon
collage of six photos showing the second half of the lunar eclipse the Moon during partial lunar eclipse phase: about a third of the lunar disk appears extremely dark to the point of being almost invisible, while the non-eclipsed part is structured in brighter and darker grays (dark at the site of maria) lunar disk appearing distinctly red, with a bite missing at the upper right
September 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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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!!! […]

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Christian Renggli receives an ERC Starting Grant. The photograph shows Christian on a rooftop terrace with the window front of a building in the background. Christian is looking straight into the camera and is smiling. 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. The photograph shows Christian operating the elaborate laboratory setup. A sample in a cup in a furnace, with the scene glowing hot red behind the protective transparent door.
September 8, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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And here's a video of the flare!
August 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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‪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 […]

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Emerging active region as seen by GREGOR. It's a black and white image of an area swarming with bundles of lines stacked in various orientations. Near center, one area appears especially dark compared to the surroundings. Emerging active region as seen by GREGOR. It's a black and white image of an area filled mostly with granulation pattern, a convection-cell structure looking simular to a very unorderly honeycomb pattern. Near center, that structure is broken up and one area appears especially dark compared to the surroundings.
August 27, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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#parkersolarprobe was in the right place at the right time in September 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 @NatureAstronomy

See the […]

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EUI image of solar corona showing the flare on September 5th/6th, 2022. The image is split into one large frame to the left and two smaller frames on the top and bottom to the right. The left frame shows a full-scale image of the Sun, in predominantly yellow false-color images against a black background. The solar surface appears strongly structured, with a particularly bright region on its lower right part. The two smaller frames are zooms onto this region at different times, as indicated by the time stamps on the bottom left corners. Additional black arrows in those two insets point at six features in each of the two inset frames.
August 27, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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#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
@tubraunschweig!

That's […]

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Jonathan Nölke examining his PhD hat Jonathan Nölke with his PhD hat Jonathan Nölke during his PhD defense, showing a slide with his most important results Group picture of Jonathan Nölke and the members of the examination board
July 18, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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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 […]

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Two scientists are seated at tables in a lab room with three small monitors in front of them and two large screens mounted on the wall. The large monitors show various monitoring images of a telescope and the data it is taking. Zoom-in on the contents of one of the large screens: Various windos showing a full-disk magnetogram image of the Sun and two versions of a zoom onto an active region. A zoom-in onto one of the large screens showing various context images: the observatory from a birds-eye view, its surroundings, close-ups of the telescope from different angles, and select scientific data panels. A full view of the operations center again, from a different angle as before and this time showing the backs of three busy scientists facing various monitors both directly in front of them as well as the two large screens on the wall of the room. The scientist in the middle is busy using her mouse clicking on things, and her upright posture suggests a high level of concentration.
July 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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#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 @tubraunschweig!

@imprs_solar

#IMPRS #solarsystemschool #tubraunschweig
Four people standing next to each other on front of a wood-panelled wall in formal clothing: from left to right, Sami Solanki, Ferdinand Plaschke, Ziwen Huang, Yasuhito Narita. Ziwen is wearing a creatively decorated doctoral hat. All four smile and look happy. Ziwen putting on her doctoral hat: both hands on the hat, trying to balance it. Ferdinand is standing next to her and watching, smiling. Ziwen holding her doctoral hat in front of her in both hands, looking at the various parts attached to it from above, with her mouth opening, indicating that she is currently explaining what's on the hat.
July 8, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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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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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.
June 29, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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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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June 21, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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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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June 21, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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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 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.
June 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM