Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
The research focus of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research is our cosmic neighborhood: the solar system with its planets and moons, comets and asteroids as well as the sun. The aim of the scientists is to describe the processes in the solar system in models and to simulate them on the computer. In addition, instruments are being developed and built to study these bodies from space. The Institute is involved in numerous space missions.
PLATO Fully Equipped with Cameras to Search for Habitable Worlds
The European exoplanet mission PLATO, which will be launched into space at the end of next year, has reached an important milestone. The optical bench with its 26 cameras has now been assembled in the clean rooms of the aerospace company OHB System AG in Oberpfaffenhofen (Germany). A key part of the mission's scientific ground segment, the PLATO Data Center, is currently being set up at the MPS.
Top achievements honored
Björn Müller, researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, and Cai Dieball, scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, have been awarded the Otto Hahn Medal for outstanding achievements in their dissertations. The Max Planck Society (MPS) presented the awards at its annual meeting on June 25 in Magdeburg.
First images of the Sun's south pole
During its latest flyby of the Sun at the end of March this year, the Solar Orbiter space probe had its first clear view of our star's poles. Solar Orbiter's trajectory has recently been tilted 17 degrees relative to the Sun's equator, allowing measurements from this unique perspective for the first time. As the new observations impressively show, the magnetic field at the poles is currently in a state of turmoil.
The heart of world’s largest solar telescope begins to beat
Technical First Light! The world's largest solar telescope, the U.S. National Science Foundation Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii, has reached an important milestone. After almost 15 years of preparation, VTF, the German instrument for the Inouye Solar Telescope, has now taken its first images. The imaging spectro-polarimeter was developed and built at the Institute for Solar Physics (KIS) in Freiburg. The MPS is a partner in the project.
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The European exoplanet mission PLATO, which will be launched into space at the end of next year, has reached an important milestone. The optical bench with its 26 cameras has now been assembled in the clean rooms of the aerospace company OHB System ...
Björn Müller, researcher at the MPI for Solar System Research, and Cai Dieball, scientist at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences, and have been awarded the Otto Hahn Medal for outstanding achievements in their dissertations ...
During its latest flyby of the Sun at the end of March this year, the Solar Orbiter space probe had its first clear view of our star's poles. The first images and observational data from the south pole taken during this flyby were published today ...
The world's largest solar telescope, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii, has reached an important milestone. After almost 15 years of preparation, the German instrument for the Inouye Solar ...