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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 6d

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

meteorites and other samples arranged on a table before a blackboard with a scientist

Selfie of a teacher and a scientist in front of a school

selfie of a scientist in front of the Felix Klein Gymnasium in Göttingen

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MPS Göttingen @mpsgoettingen.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

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.

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 7d

The Solar System School is now permanent! 🥳🥳
www.mps.mpg.de/bright-futur...

The unique graduate program offers students from all over the world the opportunity to obtain a doctorate in solar system research. 🛰️☀️🔭
@uni-goettingen.de @tu-braunschweig.de @imprs-solar.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy

Researchers working in the lab, at the computer and in the cleanroom.

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IMPRS Solar System School @imprs-solar.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

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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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 8d

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
@mpi-nat.bsky.social @mpimmg.bsky.social

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

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 14d

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.
@science.esa.int

#Sun #PHI #IAC #S3PC #MCC ☀️🛰️🔭

1-5 December 2025
Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
SO/PHI science & team meetings

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 15d

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

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

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

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MPS Göttingen @mpsgoettingen.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy · 20d

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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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 20d

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: www.mps.mpg.de/8480541/inst...
#planets #sun #exoplanets #solarsystem

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MPS Göttingen @mpsgoettingen.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy · 23d

[job ad: two postdoc positions]

Two postdoctoral positions in the SWI project for science operations and data calibration

via https://www.mps.mpg.de/career/jobs

Postdoctoral researcher (f/m/d) in SWI Data Calibration […]

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MPS Göttingen @mpsgoettingen.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 8

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.

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IMPRS Solar System School @imprs-solar.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 5

What an amazing conclusion of the IMPRS retreat today! The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science welcomed us for a brief but intense visit, and young solar system researchers got to discuss with researchers studying the history of solar eclipse excursions and other intriguing topics […]

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IMPRS Solar System School @imprs-solar.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 5

"If I had a time machine to go back to the past, what would I want to tell my PhD self?" Four IMPRS alumns treated us to valuable insights into their individual career paths and life choices after the PhD. Thank you Jean, Argyrios, Nina and Krzysztof for joining us at the retreat and sharing […]

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · Sep 5

As in every year, the literary festival Göttinger Literaturherbst, Oct 18th - Nov 11th, features a scientific lecture series covering topics from quantum theory to early childhood language acquisition.
Two lectures are in English. Take a look at the full program here: www.mps.mpg.de/von-babyspra...

pictures of all speakers of the lectures series "Wissenschaft beim Göttinger Literaturherbst"

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · Sep 4

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!!!
www.mps.mpg.de/erc-starting... @renggli.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu #ERCStG

Christian Renggli receives an ERC Starting Grant.

In the furnace, artificial magma (here in the crucible[KDB1]) is produced from silicate rock and additives at temperatures of up to 1500 degrees Celsius.

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IMPRS Solar System School @imprs-solar.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 3

Thank you so much to @AIP_Potsdam for hosting us today and showing us around some of the fascinating venues on Telegraphenberg in the Wissenschaftspark Albert Einstein as well as your Potsdamer Babelsberg site! We saw the impressive Great Refractor, the […]

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View from the back of a large modern seminar room to the front of the room with the title slide of an exoplanets talk projected. A group of people are sitting on chairs in the room, anticipating the start of the talk.

$Inside a large cupola with a wooden roof, a group of people are looking at a large refractor telescope. It's two very long tubes on a mount, painted dark green. The instrument is huge in comparison to the people standing underneath it.$ $People posing for a group picture in a large cupola with a wooden roof housing a large refractor telescope.$ 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.

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IMPRS Solar System School @imprs-solar.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy · Sep 2

After arrival at this year's IMPRS retreat location yesterday, doctoral researchers are hard at work today, discussing various issues in dedicated working groups. We'll be staying here this week and still have some exciting days of talks, science and […]

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An evening scene by the lake side: Colors are all subdued pinks and blues, with dark silhouettes. Sitting and standing on an elevated lake shore, a group of people only visible as silhouettes against the still reflecting surface of the lake and a dramatic sky above the treeline on the opposite shore.

A seminar room with a group of roughly thirty young people sitting around a U-shaped confernce table, looking up at the camera.

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MPS Göttingen @mpsgoettingen.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 29

Curious to see the Max Planck Fediverse buzzing? Here's a Fediwall

https://s.academiccloud.de/3iVQJA

Fediwall app, primarily made for large screens in public spaces to follow self-updating posts of curated accounts and hashtags, is also a fun way to find new profiles to follow! Brought to you […]

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MPS Göttingen @mpsgoettingen.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 27

And here's a video of the flare!

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MPS Göttingen @mpsgoettingen.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 27

‪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.

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MPS Göttingen @mpsgoettingen.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 27

#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.

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MPS Göttingen @mpsgoettingen.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy · Aug 27

Das Science Center phaeno in Wolfsburg lädt ein zur Vortragsreihe 2025 „Galaktische Entdeckungen“. Expert:innen aus Astrophysik, Raumfahrt und Forschung berichten von den neuesten Erkenntnissen, spektakulären Missionen und großen Fragen rund um das Weltall.

Eintritt frei, alle Termine hier […]

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · Aug 22

Could the #Sun be responsible for #ClimateChange? In his #TEDx talk on the subject, #mpsgoettingen director Sami Solanki looks into our star’s capricious past, at its more recent behavior – and gives a clear and definite answer. View here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ21...

Could the sun be responsible for climate change? | Dr. Sami K. Solanki | TEDxHHN

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · Aug 15

And here's a video of the flare!

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · Aug 15

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 regions and how energy builds up to create a flare.

emerging active region as seen by GREGOR

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