Book cover: Sabine Engel: Die Sonne - Megaheiß und superhell! WAS IST WAS TESSLOFF

2 pages featuring the Sunrise mission

photo of interview with the author at the back of the book

This new children’s book (in 🇩🇪) features 48 beautiful pages filled with cool facts about the Sun! On 2 of them, MPS-scientist Achim Gandorfer and MPS-engineer Bianca Grauf speak about our balloon mission #SunriseIII and tell what they love about our star. Enjoy!
#WASISTWAS #TesloffVerlag #Sunrise3

Did you see the reenactment of the Sunrise III flight with a cute little model at the kids' show? academiccloud.social/@imprs_solar/11472345994... Meanwhile, all our visitors of course also got to see the real Sunrise III observatory up close […]

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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 big round reflecting surface at image center, surrounded by a white square holding structure and a supporting frame.

What you see here is not a sci-fi portal - it's the primary mirror of Sunrise III, our stratospheric solar observatory! You can marvel at it live on 21 June at the 6th Night of Science in Göttingen - you rarely get this close to high-tech research. Come […]

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