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Cutting edge scientific research on our Sun, the planets and their moons, asteroids and comets. Im Mittelpunkt der wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten am Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung (MPS) steht unsere direkte kosmische Heimat: das Sonnensystem mit seinen Planeten und Monden, mit seinen Kometen und Asteroiden und natürlich der Sonne.
Um diese Körper zu untersuchen, entwickeln und bauen die Forscher zusammen mit den Ingenieuren und Technikern wissenschaftliche Instrumente, die vor allem im Weltraum eingesetzt werden. Zu diesem Zweck ist das Institut an zahlreichen Missionen internationaler Weltraumagenturen wie etwa ESA und NASA beteiligt. Die Auswertung und Interpretation der so gewonnenen Daten wird intensiv von theoretischen Arbeiten und numerischen Simulationen begleitet.
Das Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung ist im Juli 2004 durch Umbenennung aus dem seit 1957 bestehenden Max-Planck-Institut für Aeronomie hervorgegangen. Der bisherige Standort in Katlenburg-Lindau wurde ins etwa 30 Kilometer entfernte Göttingen verlegt. In der Nähe des Nordcampus der Georg-August-Universität Göttingen ist die neue Heimat des Instituts.
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Our cosmic home is the main focus of the scientific research performed in the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS): the solar system with its planets and moons, its comets and asteroids, and of course with the Sun.
The researchers develop and build scientific instruments for investigating these bodies in cooperation with engineers who are highly qualified and experienced specialists. The instruments are mainly used in outer space, which is made possible through the institute’s collaboration in numerous missions of international space agencies such as ESA and NASA. The data analysis and interpretation is complemented by theoretical models and simulations.
The Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research succeeded the Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy in 2004 by a simple name change. The institute was founded in 1957 in Katlenburg-Lindau. Recently, the institute's location was moved to Göttingen. The institute's new home can be found close to the Northern Campus of the University of Göttingen.
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facebook.comAn international team of astronomers, under the leadership of Earl Bellinger and Saskia Hekker of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen, has, for the first time, measured the deep inner structure of two stars based on their oscillations. Read more here: http://www.mps.mpg.de/5180820/news_publication_11872053?c=2169
Happy New Year! MPS-scientist Nico Schmedemann took this amazing picture on New Year's eve in Winterthur (Switzerland). In the lower left corner: the almost full supermoon (heavily overexposed due to the long exposure time chosen for the fireworks).
How do you build a comet? Here's the list of ingredients discovered by Rosetta's instrument COSIMA. Read more here: http://www.mps.mpg.de/Rosetta-A-Comet-s-List-of-Ingredients
The high energy proton population in the environment of Saturn develops independently of the solar wind - and thus in a considerably different way from the one on Earth. A group of researchers from the MPS co-led the most comprehensive study on the subject to date, which is published this week in Nature Astronomy. It is based on 13 years of measurements with MIMI-LEMMS (on board Cassini) at Saturn. Learn more here: http://www.mps.mpg.de/Saturns-Radiation-Belts-A-Stranger-to-the-Solar-Wind
MPS scientist, Dr. Jessica Argawal, has led the research which discovered evidence of sub-surface energy storage in comet 67P. Published paper here: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/doi/10.1093/mnras/stx2386/4565550/Evidence-of-sub-surface-energy-storage-in-comet
Former IMPRS student, Dr. Mark Cheung, who is now PI of NASA’s SDO/AIA Instrument, is giving a presentation titled “Data Inspired, data constrained and data driven models of solar active regions” at the L5 consortium meeting at the MPS.
Nachdruck der Originalhandschrift von Albert Einstein von 1915 + Erläuterungen des Wissenschaftshistorikers Jürgen Renn: Das Buch "The Road to Relativity" ist ein echtes Juwel. Am Freitag, 20. Oktober, 19 Uhr stellt Jürgen Renn das Buch im Rahmen des Göttinger Literaturherbstes vor. Vortragssprache ist Deutsch. Moderiert wird der Vortrag von Sami Solanki vom MPS. Noch sind einige Karten zu haben! Infos zum Literaturherbst und Vorverkauf gibt es hier: http://www.mps.mpg.de/503799/Flyer_Literaturherbst_2017.pdf
Hale Prize winning scientist, Dr. Tom Duvall, captured the glorious full, double rainbow (in panormama mode!) over Göttingen on Monday morning as he walked to work at the MPS.
Rosetta's last unexpected surprise: From the final telemetry sent by Rosetta immediately before it shut down on the surface of the comet last year, MPS-scientists have reconstructed one last image. Read more here: http://www.mps.mpg.de/A-final-image-from-Rosetta
Congratulations! The MPS is proud to be a part of this mission: Dawn's Framing Cameras were developed and built at MPS.
MPS scientist, Dr. Jessica Agarwal, led the research team that recently found two asteroids orbiting each other displaying comet-like tails. This unique object was discovered using observations from the Hubble Space Telescope. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/hubble-discovers-that-a-unique-object-is-a-binary
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