Okay, universe. You wanna hide your secrets? We'll find them!
#MPE and the #Euclid Consortium needs YOU to hunt for 10,000+ gravitational lenses in Euclid data.
Join the #SpaceWarps Project!
➡️Read more: s.mpe.mpg.de/4goov
#CitizenScience #Astrophysics #Astronomy
👏👏Huge congratulations to Sarah Pappert for winning the #ZONTA International Women in STEM Award!
Sarah is a PhD-Student at #MPE and works on #MICADO, a pioneering instrument for the #ELT. She is also highly engaged in public outreach and empowers women in science.
➡️ s.mpe.mpg.de/65838
#WomenInSTEM
“Like watching the Solar System breathe in X-Rays.” ☀️🌬️
Using the #eROSITA space telescope, scientists at #MPE disentangled #SWCX from other #astrophysics emissions, allowing them to reconstruct the clean soft X-ray sky as it would appear from outside the #solarsystem.
➡️ s.mpe.mpg.de/6sai1
👏Congratulations to #MPE scientist Stefan Gillessen for receiving the Von Seeliger Award as Best Lecturer! The award is presented by master students from @lmu.de to recognize excellence in teaching.
Gillessen was honoured for his lecture “#BlackHoles: Theory and Observations.”
➡️ s.mpe.mpg.de/klbcf
📢 #MPEPaperOfTheMonth
How do #BlackHoles ⚫ like Sagittarius A* in the heart of our milky way eat? A new study by a team of researchers led by #MPE links gas clouds to stellar winds from a #BinaryStar as a potential source of energy.
➡️https://s.mpe.mpg.de/j1d4h
An image of the planetary disk surrounding the young star WISPIT aswell as the locations of its surrounding Protostars WISPIT 2b and WISPIT 2c. A diagram showing the brightness and wavelength in microns of 2c, reveals traces of carbon monoxide
A cosmic Game of Hide and Seek 🙈 👀
Hiding in a belt orbiting the #star #WISPIT, scientists have found not 1, but 2 forming #protoplanets thanks to #GRAVITY+.
A prime example of how technological #innovation drives scientific breakthroughs!
👉 s.mpe.mpg.de/ssiaz
#sciencenews #SpaceScience #science
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📢Paper of the Month alert:
Elements from a #protostar crashing into clouds in #space can create organic compounds: The Basis of complex #life 💫 🌌 💥 ⚛️ 🌱
👉 Link: www.mpe.mpg.de/8186220/pape...
#sciencenews #paperofthemonth
Follow @ddahlb.bsky.social the first author of the paper
A depiction of a moon orbiting a Gas Giant that's drifting through space without a sun.
Life without a sun? Impossible! Or not...
Isolated worlds could stay warm for up to 4.3 billion years.
Hydrogen can trap heat, keeping oceans liquid – the foundation of life.
Life might not just circle stars, it could wander the galaxy 🌍✨
s.mpe.mpg.de/8gst1
#Astrobiology #Exomoons #SpaceScience
Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham in Arizona, USA © Credit: Dr. Christoph Saulder (MPE)
High-resolution image taken with the Large Binocular Telescope on Mount Graham in Arizona, USA, displaying the two lens galaxies in a warm tone, and the five lensed copies of SN Winny in blue. © Credit: SN Winny Research Group
SN Winny is the only known strongly lensed superluminous supernova – and MPE astronomers have captured all five of its images. 💫
This rare system opens a new, one-step route to measure the universe’s expansion rate and address the Hubble tension.
More: bit.ly/4tLRiHN
Zoom on the features of the XMM-Newton lightcurve of J2344: A crest of narrow flares can be distinctively observed over the broader modulations (the QPEs) 🌀 Supermassive black hole heartbeat with mini-flares! eRASSt J2344 shows quasi-periodic X-ray eruptions every 12 hours plus unprecedented short, hot mini-flares – challenging models near supermassive black holes. Thanks to Einstein Probe + XMM-Newton. Led by MPE/IMPRS PhD student @PietroBaldini. 👉 Full story + cosmic ECG: bit.ly/MPE-J2344-heartbeat #BlackHoles #EinsteinProbe #Astrophysics #MPE #IMPRS
🌀 Supermassive black hole heartbeat + mini-flares!
eRASSt J2344 shows QPEs every 12h + unprecedented short mini-flares – challenging black hole models. Thanks to Einstein Probe + XMM-Newton.
👉 Full story + cosmic ECG: bit.ly/MPE-J2344-heartbeat
#BlackHoles #EinsteinProbe #Astrophysics #MPE #IMPRS
International Day of Women and Girls in Science!
At @eso_supernova in Garching, "MPE’s Women in Astronomy" spotlighted Prof. Dr. Dominika Wylezalek (Heidelberg University & ARI) with her inspiring public talk “Black Holes and the Cosmic Web of Galaxies — A Journey Through Space and Time.” ✨
Astronomers win!🥳
Protest saves @eso.org #Paranal Observatory's dark skies from industrial project. #MPE director & #Nobel Laureate Reinhard Genzel leads successful fight to protect a unique site of world-class telescopes, including #VLT and the currently built #ELT.
➡️ www.mpe.mpg.de/8134359/news...
Largest sulfur molecule ever detected in space may reveal clues to life’s origins. www.mpg.de/26040668/the... #astrophysics @mpe-garching.bsky.social
A new study by #MPE researchers, using the #eROSITA telescope, shows the fastest-feeding #Quasars have the strongest X-ray flickering. The likely cause? Powerful winds blasting away from the #blackhole, acting like a 'cosmic curtain' that block our view.
➡️https://www.mpe.mpg.de/8130783/news20260121
👏Congratulations to Michaela Benthaus, who just became the first ever wheelchair user to travel to space!
Back in early 2023, Michaela did an internship at #MPE. And now to see her go to space make us incredibly proud.
Amazing achievement, Michi, and all the best for your future! Next stop Mars??😉
Unveiling interstellar secrets!
A science team including #MPE's Konrad Dennerl captured the first X-ray images of comet 3I/ATLAS using @esa.int #XMMNewton. This goes back to 1996 when the #ROSAT mission discovered that comets emit X-rays.
Image: ESA/XMM-Newton/C. Lisse, S. Cabot & the XMM ISO Team
Check out "The Year in Physics" 2025 by @quantamagazine.bsky.social, with #MPE scientist Hannah Übler, who received an #ERC Starting Grant in 2024.
Using the #JWST, they found a lonely black hole in the early universe with a mass of 50 million suns! 🤯
➡️ More: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPoQ...
👏Congratulations to #MPE-director Reinhard Genzel on receiving the Bavarian Constitutional Order! He received the award from Ilse Aigner in honor for his groundbreaking black hole research & dedication to science in Bavaria!
➡️ www.mpe.mpg.de/8116474/news...
Photos: Bayerischer Landtag/Matthias Balk
⚠️Skies at Risk! ⚠️
#NobelPrize Laureate and #MPE director Genzel, along with 29 astronomers, have written an open letter to the Chilean government, urging them to protect @eso.org #Paranal Observatory from light pollution & vibrations from the proposed INNA complex.
➡️ www.mpe.mpg.de/8115723/news...
Der klare Himmel über Paranal – die Grundlage für bahnbrechende Forschung mit Instrumenten wie GRAVITY+ – ist bedroht. - Copyright A. Berdeu / ESO
Nobelpreisträger Reinhard Genzel führt dringenden Appell internationaler Astronomen zum Schutz der Paranal-Himmel an
Nobelpreisträger Reinhard Genzel und fast 30 Spitzenastronomen fordern die chilenische Regierung auf, den INNA-Industriekompl...
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📣 Job Opportunity 📣
Project Scientist | Wide Field Imager Instrument for NewAthena X-ray Observatory.
The @mpe-garching.bsky.social (MPE) is looking for a Project Scientist for Wide Field Imager Instrument for NewAthena X-ray Observatory .
More info 👇:
www.mpe.mpg.de/8103082/job_...
First Light for 4MOST!
The 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) has captured its very first spectra!
Video Credit: AIP/R. de Jong, AIP/K. Riebe, AIP/A. Saviauk, CRAL/J.-K. Krogager
🤩The @4most-eu.bsky.social (#4MOST) facility on @eso.org VISTA telescope in Chile achieved first light.
#MPE scientists played a leading role in developing the Operations System, enabling to link #eROSITA’s X-ray universe with large-scale structure of galaxies.
➡️ More: www.mpe.mpg.de/8102833/news...
🏃🏃♀️🏃♂️Fast, faster, #MPE! With two teams, a group of MPE scientists participated in the #MunichMarathon 2025. On the left team "eRunita" - a neologism of "run" and #eROSITA -, and on the right the "WFI DEPFET Fliers", named after the #NewAthena #WFI.
Great Performance, guys! 👏🥇
“I’m proud of my team – our work is read all around the world.”
Huge congratulations to Ewine van Dishoeck! Named Citation Laureate 2025 by Clarivate for groundbreaking astrochemistry research. Her discoveries reshape how we understand the birth of stars & planets.
Ein fertiger Informationsstand zum Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) im Eingangsbereich des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung. Der Stand präsentiert sich mit mehreren Elementen: Im Vordergrund ein Tisch mit ausliegenden Informationsmaterialien, darunter Flyer und Bildkarten astronomischer Motive. Auf dem Tisch steht eine große durchsichtige Vitrine mit einem maßstabsgetreuen Modell des ELT. Dahinter hängen Stellwände mit einem nächtlichen Bild des Teleskops und leuchtenden Laserstrahlen. Zwei große Bildschirme links und rechts des Modells zeigen Animationen und Fotos des ELT. Auf der rechten Seite des Stands steht ein Glücksrad mit einem astronomischen Design, daneben ein Barhocker sowie eine VR-Brille, die Besucherinnen und Besucher ausprobieren können. Links steht eine Infotafel mit der Überschrift „Raumfahrt“ und dem Hinweis „Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) – das weltweit größte Auge im Himmel“. Das Logo der ESO ist ebenfalls sichtbar. Der Stand wird von Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern des Max-Planck-Instituts für Astronomie (MPIA) und des Max-Planck-Instituts für extraterrestrische Physik (MPE) betreut. Er ist Teil des Programms zum Tag der offenen Tür der Bundesregierung, bei dem Forschungseinrichtungen ihre Projekte vorstellen.
1/ Alles bereit für den Tag der offenen Tür 🚪 #TdoT25 der #Bundesregierung im #BMFTR am 23. und 24. August. Im Auftrag der @eso.org präsentieren #MPIA und @mpe-garching.bsky.social der @maxplanck.de das Extremely Large Telescope #ELT 🔭. #Astronomie #Weltraum #ESO 🌌
We're excited to welcome you soon at #MPE, @suchitra.bsky.social! 🤗
Frank Grupp, researcher at #MPE and @lmumuenchen.bsky.social, receives the Instrument Development Award for leading the development of the NISP optics on ESA’s #Euclid space telescope. With the largest lens system ever used in space, his work sets new standards in resolution and precision. (3/3)
