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Christian J. Renggli @renggli.bsky.social · 1d

A fun change to the regular work in the lab is the interaction with the public. Yesterday I visited the Astronomical Society of Hildesheim to talk about #Mercury and the #BepiColombo mission. 🛰️🚀🔭📡🧪
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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 5d

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

Congratulations, @steffenmau.bsky.social ! And a hearty welcome to the "Max Planck family" in Göttingen!

MaxPlanckInstitute for the Study of Religious & Ethnic Diversity @mpimmg.bsky.social · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that @steffenmau.bsky.social, one of Germany’s leading sociologists, has been appointed Director at our Institute. He will lead a new Department on Inequality, Transformation & Conflict, addressing pressing societal challenges via cutting-edge social science research.

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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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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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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 · 22d

[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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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

Scientists from #mpsgoettingen are contributing to and organizing part of the program of the Annual meeting of the German Astronomical Society #ag2025goerlitz

https://ag2025.astronomische-gesellschaft.de/program/index.php

In particular, the splinter session on "Observation and Characterization […]

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

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".

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 24d

Come and touch some space rocks and learn all about meteorites at the Geo-Erlebnis-Tag at the Geoscience Center of @uni-goettingen.de today from 11:00 - 16:00.
MPS scientists are looking forward to your visit!
www.geo4goettingen2025.de/geo-erlebnis...

MPS Scientist awaiting your visit at our booth!

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 26d

On Sunday, September 14, starting at 11:00 AM during Geo Experience Day, you’ll have the chance to touch meteorites—and even touch the Moon and Mars at the same time!

geo4goettingen2025.de/geo-erlebnis...

#Geo4Göttingen #Geo4Change #Geosciences #Göttingen

MPS scientist touching moon and mars meteorites at the same time

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 27d

In Göttingen tonight? Check out the public talk by @esa.int astronaut @astromatthias.esa.int at 19:00. The talk will be held in German at the central campus of @uni-goettingen.de

quantum25.dpg-tagungen.de/nachrichten/...

Poster describing public talk by Mathias Maurer

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 28d

Looking for our other social media pages and featured content? Find them all on our linktree: linktr.ee/mpsgoettingen

MPI for Solar System Research | Instagram, Facebook | Linktree

Cutting edge scientific research on our Sun, the planets and their moons, asteroids and comets ✨☀️🪐🌕

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

Here are some lovely shots of last night’s #LunarEclipse taken by Kamlesh Bora, Maxime Piralla and Adrian Tuschinsky from #mpsgoettingen. The 1st two photos were taken in #Goettingen, the 3rd at the #GREGORtelescope on #Tenerife.

collage of six photos showing the 2nd half of the lunar eclipse

crescent of the Moon during lunar eclipse

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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 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.

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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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · Aug 28

#ParkerSolarProbe was in the right place at the right time in Sept 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
@natastron.nature.com
. #NASA
@science.esa.int

www.mps.mpg.de/flying-throu...

solar flare as seen by Solar Orbiter on September 5th and 6th, 2022

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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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