Öffentliche Vortragsreihe "Im Feuerwerk der Sonne" Do., 16. April 2026, 19 Uhr Dr. Volker Bothmer (Universität Göttingen) Gefahren von Weltraumwetter für unsere moderne Infrastruktur

DON’T MISS: next lecture in our lecture series “Im Feuerwerk der Sonne” on April 16th, 7 PM. Volker Bothmer from @uni-goettingen.de will speak about the effects of dangerous #SpaceWeather on terrestrial infrastructure. In German. More here: www.mps.mpg.de/im-feuerwerk...
☀️🌍🔭 @goettingen-campus.de

View of the far side of MPS through boughs with cherry blossoms

Hans-Adolf-Krebs-Weg lined with blooming cherry trees with MPS sign

MPS sign amidst cherry trees

It’s cherry blossom time! 💮💮💮Hans-Adolf-Krebs-Weg behind #mpsgoettingen has turned into a lovely cherry walk – offering glimpses of the institute’s far side amidst a sea of white blossoms. Maybe an idea for an evening stroll? #Kirschpost #CherryBlossom @uni-goettingen.de @goettingen-campus.de

Here's an animation of the first observation field of our PLATO Mission with ESA. The animation is based on the newly released PLATO Input Catalog:

youtu.be/rU3fas8NFHY?...

Soundtrack produced with my dear friend Achim Rust in an overnight synthesizer session.

Five things Juice has revealed about Comet 3I/ATLAS ‘Extreme but not exotic,’ – a glimpse at Comet 3I/ATLAS through the eyes of the European Space Agency’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice).

🆕☄️ The wait is over.

Back in November 2025, our Juice mission observed Comet 3I/ATLAS with five science instruments. The data have arrived back on Earth, and scientists are delving in.

Here are five things they've already discovered 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

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UKSP is present on different social media channels to increase the visibility of its news items, and we are now also on Mastodon

In the last seven months, we have been trying to make UKSP news items reachable across different platforms in order to increase visibility. The UKSP website receives…

Are you looking for a PhD position in the field of experimental planetary science?
Do you have a background in Geochemistry, Mineralogy, Petrology, or Earth and Planetary Sciences in general?

The ERC Starting Grant group ELMO led by Christian Renggli @bsky.app.profile.renggli.bsky.social is […]

Closure of MPS Canteen After 12 years of feeding the hungry MPS staff and visitors, our canteen “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe” will be permanently closed. For external visitors, the last day will be Thursday, April 2nd. Many thanks to the canteen staff for yummy breakfasts, satisfying lunches - and always a friendly word!

Do., 2. April 2026, 19 Uhr Prof. Dr. Yasuhito Narita (TU Braunschweig): Polarlichter: Faszination und aktuelle Forschung

COMING UP: The next lecture in our lecture series “Im Feuerwerk der Sonne” will be colorful! On April 2nd, 7 PM, learn all about #PolarLights. In German.
More here: www.mps.mpg.de/im-feuerwerk... ☀️🌍🔭 #NorthernLights #AuroraBorealis #SpaceWeather @goettingen-campus.de @tu-braunschweig.de

space themed coloring pages

planets drwan on two hands

Astro AG

kids' lecture

Despite rainy weather, our #AstronomyDay is well under way – with lectures, planetarium shows and fun for kids.
@uni-goettingen.de @goettingen-campus.de
#Astronomietag #Astronomietag2026 #FPG

six apprentices present their model of ESA's Mars rover Rosalind Franklin

Model of Mars rover Rosalind Franklin

Almost like the real thing: Three years before ESA's #ExoMars rover #RosalindFranklin is scheduled to land on #Mars, #mpsgoettingen apprentices have completed their own model of the Mars rover. Great job, guys! 🚀🛰️
Read more here: www.mps.mpg.de/a-mars-rover...
@science.esa.int‬ #ESA

Astronomietag 2026 Samstag, 28. März 15 Uhr: Kindervortrag Christoph Rauterberg (MPS): Planetdetektive im Weltall - Wie PLATO ferne Welten entdeckt Für Kinder zwischen 8 und 10 Jahren

What are #exoplanets and how do researchers find them? Learn more in our kids’ lecture on Astronomy Day, March 28th, at 3 PM. Including hands-on fun! www.mps.mpg.de/astronomieta... @uni-goettingen.de @goettingen-campus.de #Astronomietag #Astronomietag2026

Congratulations!

Astronomietag 2026 Samstag, 28. März, 19 Uhr Dr. Harald Krüger (MPS) Bis an den Rand des Sonnensystems und darüber hinaus - Die Weltraummissionen Voyager 1 und 2 https://www.mps.mpg.de/astronomietag2026

Launched 48 years ago, #Voyager 1 and 2 are still exploring – and have long left the #SolarSystem. Learn more on Astronomy Day, March 28th, 7 PM, in public talk by MPS scientist Harald Krüger. In German. www.mps.mpg.de/astronomieta... @uni-goettingen.de @goettingen-campus.de #Astronomietag #FPG

Öffentliche Vortragsreihe "Im Feuerwerk der Sonne" Do., 12. März 2026, 19 Uhr Prof. Dr. Hardi Peter (MPS) Unsichtbar und doch zu messen: Wie der Wind von der Sonne ihre Umgebung prägt

COMING UP: the next lecture in our public lecture series “Im Feuerwerk der Sonne”. On Thursday, March 12th, at 7 PM, learn all about the #SolarWind including new research results. In German. More here: www.mps.mpg.de/im-feuerwerk... ☀️🔭
#Sun #SpaceWeather @goettingen-campus.de

Astronomietag 2026 Samstag, 28. März 14-20 Uhr: Vorträge, Shows im mobilen Planetarium ab 19 Uhr: Beobachtungen von Himmelsobjekten Eintritt frei Mit Kinderprogramm

In #Goettingen, the upcoming Astronomy Day on March 28th will offer lectures, planetarium shows and skygazing. Topics will be #moon, #planets, #exoplanets for kids, #Voyager and more! In German. More info: www.mps.mpg.de/astronomieta... @uni-goettingen.de @goettingen-campus.de #Astronomietag #FPG

hand-drawn coloring page of MPS institute building

hand-drawn coloring page of mouse, planets, stars, a space probe and a spiral galaxy

If you are a #space enthusiast and enjoy coloring, this is for you! Have fun with these #mpsgoettingen coloring pages which were hand-drawn by MPS scientist Ziwen Huang and Ilsabe Weber from our Facility Management. Download here: www.mps.mpg.de/mps-coloring...
#coloring #coloringfun @maxplanck.de

On this day on February 26, 1948, the Max Planck Society was formally founded in Göttingen as the successor organization to the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, in the cafeteria of the KWS's aerodynamic testing facility in Göttingen.

Happy birthday to....well, to us, actually! 😉🎂🥳 On this day on February 26, 1948, the Max Planck Society was formally founded in Göttingen as the successor organization to the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, in the cafeteria of the KWS's aerodynamic testing facility in Göttingen.

Cover des Max Planck Malbuch "Die wunderbare Welt der Wissenschaft" mit verschiedenen Ausmalmotiven, wie ein Axolotl, ein Teleskop, eine Spiralgalaxie, eine Blüte, ein Virus und vielem mehr.

Die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft wurde am 26. Februar 1948 in Göttingen gegründet. Zu unserem Geburtstag in einer Woche verlosen wir drei Malbücher für Wissenschaftsbegeisterte. Folgt uns lediglich auf BlueSky und verratet uns, welches Motiv auf dem Cover Euch am besten gefällt. Viel Erfolg! 🤗

Congratulations and greetings from Göttingen! 🥳

The newly founded German Society for Planetary Research (#DGP) will be holding its 1st Annual Meeting, the #DGP2026, from March 16th, 2026 to March 18th, 2026 in Berlin. Registration is still open until March 1st, 2026. More infos here: www.planet-dgp.de/internal.php... 🔭🌑

Group picture of Patrick Bambach and members of the examination board

Patrick Bambach (center) with a model of PEP-JEI

Group picture of Patrick Bambach with members of the examination board

#PhDCongratulations!!! 🥳🥳🥳Patrick Bambach of the #IMPRS #SolarSystemSchool successfully defended his thesis “Calibration of the Jovian Electron and Ion Analyzer (JEI) for the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (JUICE)” at the University of Stuttgart.
@unistuttgart.bsky.social #JUICE @science.esa.int
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Blick entlang des Tubus eines großen Teleskops, durch einen geöffneten Kuppelspalt auf mehrere helle Sterne am dunklen Himmel.

Übermorgen, Donnerstag 19. Februar 2026, findet ab 18:00h wieder eine öffentliche Führung in der Astrophysik statt, diesmal mit einem Vortrag von J. Hölken, Mitarbeiter des MPS Göttingen, Thema des Vortrags: Wie wir kleinste Phänomene auf der Sonne […]

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Congratulations!!! Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta of #mpsgoettingen is awarded 2026 #KarenHarveyPrize by @aas.org #SolarPhysicsDivision.
His research shows how tiny magnetic structures and processes determine the dynamic nature of the corona: www.mps.mpg.de/high-honor-f...
@erc.europa.eu #heliophysics ☀️🔭

The latest post on the DLR Space Blog is about the #RAMSES mission, which will accompany the #asteroid #Apophis as it soars past Earth in 2029 - and about the instrument #RPS currently being developed at #mpsgoettingen: www.dlr.de/de/blog/arch...
In German. Enjoy!
@dlr-de.bsky.social

Öffentliche Vortragsreihe "Im Feuerwerk der Sonne" Do., 12. Februar 2026, 19 Uhr Prof. Dr. Sami K. Solanki (MPS) Die eruptive Sonne und ihr Einfluss auf die Erde

Our public lecture series “Im Feuerwerk der Sonne“ starts this Thursday with a lecture by #mpsgoettingen Director Sami Solanki. Learn about solar activity and how it impacts Earth! In German. More info here: www.mps.mpg.de/im-feuerwerk... @goettingen-campus.de
#Sun #spaceweather ☀️🌍🔭

Daniel in front of the Mundrabilla I meteorite in Perth

Mundrabilla I plaque

Mundrabilla I meteorite

Slice of Mundrabilla II at MPS in Göttingen

Our colleague Daniel recently discovered the main mass of the Mundrabilla I iron meteorite at the Western Australian Museum in Perth.

The second-largest fragment, Mundrabilla II, was brought to Germany in the 1960s and cut up. One of these slices can be seen today at our institute in Göttingen!

Black and white OSIRIS narrow-angle camera image taken on 23 January 2016, when Rosetta was 75.1 km from Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The scale is 1.37 m/pixel.

#OTD 23 January 2016, ESA's #Rosetta narrow-angle camera took this image when the spacecraft was 75.1 km from Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko 🧪🔭
www.esa.int/spaceinimage...

@science.esa.int @dlr-de.bsky.social

Top 10 Breakthroughs of the Year in physics for 2025 revealed – Physics World A molecular superfluid, high-resolution microscope and a protein qubit are on our list

Congratulations! 🥳 “A weather map for a gas giant #exoplanet” is one of @physicsworld.bsky.social ‘s Top 10 Breakthroughs in Physics 2025. Research led by @uni-goettingen.de including #mpsgoettingen.
Read more here: physicsworld.com/a/top-10-bre...
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Read more about the "magnetic avalanche" on the Sun here: www.mps.mpg.de/magnetic-ava...

Published today in @aanda-journal.bsky.social : www.aanda.org/articles/aa/...

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green Northern Lights

pink skies above roof tops

green Northern Lights