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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research retweeted
21 Jan 2025
Excited to share our discovery! đź”We observed extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of the exoplanet WASP-127b. I’m proud to be part of the VLT/CRIRES consortium! @MPSGoettingen @SPP_exoplanets
Using ESO's #VLT, astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds on #exoplanet WASP-127b.
The winds reach speeds up to 33 000 km/h, the fastest jetstream of its kind ever measured on a planet!
Discover more: eso.org/public/news/eso2502/
Artist's impression by ESO/L. Calçada
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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research retweeted
Der #Mond ist der #Erde ähnlicher als gedacht: Ein Forschungsteam der @uniGoettingen und des @MPSGoettingen hat neue Erkenntnisse zur Entstehung des Mondes sowie des Wassers auf der Erde gewonnen.
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Together with #Huygens, hardware from #MPSGoettingen made its way to the surface of #Titan. We contributed the CCD detector and associated operation electronics to the instrument #DISR – and thus helped to take the first and to date only pictures from the surface of an icy moon.
14 Jan 2025
On 14 January 2005, ESA’s #Huygens probe made history as it touched down on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. This was humanity's first successful landing on a world in the outer Solar System.
Relive those moments with this narrated video done with Huygens data youtube.com/watch?v=svmGxFaG… 1/3
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This year’s public lecture series at #MPSGoettingen will be devoted to #Earth and its cosmic next of kin: the inner #planets #Mercury, #Venus and #Mars. Find more info here: mps.mpg.de/die-erde-und-ihre… All lectures in German. See you there! #innerplanets @thegoecampus
ALT Die Erde und ihre Geschwister Neues von den Gesteinsplaneten in unserem Sonnensystem Ă–ffentliche Vortragsreihe am Max-Planck-Institut fĂĽr Sonnensystemforschung Januar - April 2025
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All scientific instruments to which #MPSGoettingen has contributed i.e. #BELA, #MIXS, #SERENA and #MPPE are switched on during flyby and we’re looking forward to cool new data. #bepicolombo #Mercury #Flyby
8 Jan 2025
Here's an image taken 5.5 hours before closest approach, when #bepicolombo was 44950 km from Mercury's southern hemisphere. The planet is at the bottom of the picture, below two of the spacecraft's booms.
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In the current episode of the German TV Show “Spacetime” devoted to planetary #atmospheres, #MPSGoettingen scientist Paul Hartogh speaks about the gas layers surrounding #Earth, #Venus and #Mars as well as the search for life on #exoplanets: youtube.com/watch?v=SdwOOgLI…
In German.
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Millions of years after formation, the Moon’s immense volcanic activity reheated its crust. As scientists from @ucsantacruz, #MPSGoettingen and @cdf1530 argue today in @Nature, the Moon is at least 4.43 billion years old, but its crust is younger. More: mps.mpg.de/old-moon-with-a-y…
ALT Landscape on the Moon with active volcanos and lava, with few of Earth
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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research retweeted
18 Dec 2024
2024 was tense and successful with the SWI cruise phase operations PCW01, PCW02 and LEGA!
Looking forward to 2025 operations!
@ESA_JUICE @EuropeSpacePort @Arianespace @AirbusSpace @MPSGoettingen
#happyholidays #ESAJuice
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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research retweeted
17 Dec 2024
Watch #Sunrise_III’s unique research flight in the #stratosphere as seen by the onboard cameras provided by the #IRIS-2 project. Includes launch and landing! youtu.be/CKWAjiNBPxo
ALT Selfie of Sunrise III taken during the stratospheric flight
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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research retweeted
17 Dec 2024
Today, #Sunrise_III shares its 1st images of the #Sun! Read more here: mps.mpg.de/first-solar-image…
@iaa_csic @prcnaoj_en #KIS @JHUAPL @maxplanckpress @CSIC @MPSGoettingen @UV_EG @La_UPM @IAC_Astrofisica
ALT The Sunrise III solar observatory images the visible surface of the Sun and the lower chromosphere at different wavelengths. Left: The SUSI instrument shows the surface of the Sun in ultraviolet light. Here you can see a sunspot, its finely structured edge area and the typical granulation of the solar surface. The image achieves a spatial resolution of around 50 kilometers. Center: The TuMag instrument images the surface of the Sun in visible light. The four images show different views of sunspots. Right: Infrared images of the chromosphere and photosphere taken by the SCIP instrument. In the upper image, elongated fibril-like structures can be seen in the chromosphere. The lower image shows the corresponding magnetic fields in the chromosphere and photosphere.
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Read more about our research into #superflares in the New York Times!
16 Dec 2024
New findings suggest that an extraordinarily powerful and dangerous burst of radiation might flare from our sun in the future. nyti.ms/4ix1Rsu
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What a blast! #Sun-like stars produce a #superflare on average about once every century per star, a research team led by #MPSGoettingen shows in today’s issue of @sciencemagazine. More here: mps.mpg.de/superflares-once-… @UniGraz @UniOulu @prcnaoj_en @CUBoulder @unipariscite
ALT Sun-like star displaying a superflare in visible light
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Congratulations, #Proba3, and have a safe trip! Looking forward to a unique formation flight – and to new data from the #Sun. #MPSGoettingen has developed software for the mission’s scientific data analysis and will use the data to learn more about the solar #corona.
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Today saw the last day of the 14th meeting on “(Exo)Planet Diversity, Formation and Evolution” at #MPSGoettingen. Thanks for three days full of talks, discussions, and new insights! #exoplanets #planets #stars
ALT group picture taken under a hanging model of the PLATO spacecraft
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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research retweeted
3 Dec 2024
Let the sun shine in!🌞
Die neue Ausstellung #Sonnenansichten gibt Einblicke in die Sonnenforschung. Im Fokus: Ein Film über die Sunrise III-Mission, die die Sonne aus der Stratosphäre erforschte. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem @MPSGoettingen!
📅 4.12.24 – 15.2.25 | #ForumWissen
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Tonight, #MPSGoettingen Director Sami Solanki reports on @Sunrise_III’s adventurous flight across the Atlantic. At 7.30 PM in @uniGoettingen's ZHG. In German. The talk is part of the series “Faszinierendes Weltall” of the Förderkreis Planetarium Göttingen. planetarium-goettingen.de/vo…
ALT Dienstag, 3. Dezember 2024, 19.30 Uhr im ZHG Prof. Dr. Sami K. Solanki (MPS): Das Sunrise-Abenteuer: Wie ein Sonnenobservatorium ĂĽber den Atlantik flog und dabei einmalige Daten aufnahm
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During its #Uranus flyby in 1986, @NASAVoyager 2 encountered a haywire #magnetosphere due to unusual solar wind conditions. Read more about the new analysis of the 38 year old data here: mps.mpg.de/uranus-a-haywire-…
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A reanalysis of the 1986 Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus shows that it occurred during an extreme compression of the planet’s magnetosphere by the solar wind. This would have had significant effects on the measurements made during the flyby. @spaceJamieJ et al.: nature.com/articles/s41550-0…
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Two insights into solar research at @MPSGoettingen on German TV today! At 6.30 PM, the science show #3sat NANO will report on the @Sunrise_III mission: 3sat.de/wissen/nano A bit later at 6.45 PM, MPS-Director Sami Solanki will be live on the show DAS! ndr.de/fernsehen/sendungen/d…
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#PhDCongratulations! 🥳Fridolin Spitzer of the #IMPRS “Solar System School” successfully defended his PhD thesis “The onset of planet formation inferred from isotope anomalies in meteorites” today!
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