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In their endeavor to count thousands and thousands of sunspots in historical drawings of the Sun, a joint research project by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) in Germany and the National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF) in ...
The Swiss Geological Society (German: Schweizer Geologische Gesellschaft (SGG)) has awarded the Paul Niggli Medal 2023 to Dr. Christian Renggli from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS). The committee thus honoured his ...
Only two of the more than 5300 known exoplanets have so far provided evidence of moons in orbit around them. In observations of the planets Kepler-1625b and Kepler-1708b from the Kepler and Hubble space telescopes, researchers had discovered traces ...
151 years ago, a powerful solar storm hit Earth: on February 4, 1872, telegraph offices in many parts of the world reported hours of disturbances and outages; auroras were visible in India, Sudan and the Caribbean. In the scientific journal The ...