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News and Announcements

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Top achievements honored

June 26, 2025

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 ...

First images of the Sun's south pole

June 11, 2025

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 Heart of World’s Largest Solar Telescope Begins to Beat

April 24, 2025

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 ...

Events

S3 Seminar: Modelling the low-frequency modes of the Sun (Suprabha Mukhopadhyay)

Jul 2, 2025 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)

Max-Plack-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Room: Hörsaal

S3 Seminar: Thermal evolution of solar coronal loops (Bhinva Ram)

Jul 2, 2025 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Max-Plack-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Room: Hörsaal

S3 Seminar: Properties of sunspot penumbrae studied through SO/PHI (David Ivens)

Jul 2, 2025 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)

Max-Plack-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Room: Hörsaal

IMPRS Defense: Investigating small-scale dynamics: Analysis and Interpretation of Solar Orbiter observations (Ziwen Huang)

Jul 8, 2025 03:30 PM - 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

TU Braunschweig, Physikzentrum, Mendelssohnstraße 3, MS 3.2, Room: MS 3.2

S3 Seminar: Denoising far-side helioseismic maps: Validating with STEREO/EUVI images and SO/PHI magnetograms (Aarushi Rawat)

Jul 9, 2025 02:00 PM - 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)

Max-Plack-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Room: Hörsaal

S3 Seminar: Rapid moss variability and implications for active region core heating in the solar corona (Abhas Pradhan)

Jul 9, 2025 02:30 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Max-Plack-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Room: Hörsaal

S3 Seminar: Nature of the observed m=3 Rossby mode (Yash Mandowara)

Jul 9, 2025 03:00 PM - 03:30 PM (Local Time Germany)

Max-Plack-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Room: Hörsaal

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A Asteroseismology [20]
Astrophysics [23]

B BepiColombo [8]

D Dawn [10]
Defense [89]
Doktoranden [3]

E Earth [30]
Extra-solar planets [16]

H Helioseismology [26]

I IMPRS [65]
IMPRS Telegramme [215]
InSight [3]
Inverse Problems [9]

J JUICE [14]
Jupiter [27]

M Mars [33]
Mercury [18]
Moon [21]

O Open PhD Project [15]
ORIGIN [3]

P PhD [47]
Planetary Atmospheres [28]
Planetary Interiors [15]
Planetary Materials [11]
Planetary plasma environment [33]
Planetary science [94]
Planetary Surfaces [24]
PLANETOIDS [5]
Press release [25]
Prizes [90]

R Rosetta [5]

S Saturn [11]
SDO [4]
Small bodies and comets [34]
Solar and Stellar Coronae [24]
Solar and Stellar Interiors [24]
Solar and stellar magnetic activity [7]
Solar and Stellar Magnetohydrodynamics [7]
Solar and Stellar Variabilities [7]
Solar Lower Atmosphere and Magnetism [9]
Solar Orbiter [23]
Solar physics [106]
Solar Variability and Climate [8]
Stellar physics [11]
Sun and Heliosphere [29]
Sunrise [13]

U Uranus [3]

V Venus [10]