Heller, R.: Habitability of early Earth: Liquid water under a faint young Sun and tidal heating due to a closer Moon. General Meeting of the SPP 1833 "Building a Habitable Earth", online (2021)
Heller, R.: Challenges of Validating Earth-like Transiting Planets Around Sun-like Stars. Splinter session "Exploring the diversity of extrasolar planets”, Virtual Meeting of the German Astronomical Society (2020)
Heller, R.: Detecting shallow transits with smart force: the Transit Least Squares (TLS) algorithm. PLATO Extrasolar Planets 2019: Single, Shallow & Strange Transits, Warwick , UK (2019)
Heller, R.: Extrasolare Planeten. Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Schülerbesuch der 11. Klasse des Felix-Klein-Gymnasium Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany (2019)
Heller, R.: In situ-Erkundung extrasolarer Planeten Science Fiction oder Science Fact? Vortragsreihe "Extrasolare Planeten, Astrobiologie und die Frage nach Leben im Universum" der Akademie der Wissenschaften, Hamburg, Germany (2019)
Heller, R.: How to park a hot Jupiter at 0.05 AU around a sun-like star for billions of years. Planet Formation and Evolution 2019, Rostock, Germany (2019)
The European Space Agency (ESA) has given the green light to build the flight models of the spacecraft and science payload for the PLATO mission to search for extrasolar planets.
In the "Solar and Stellar Interiors" department, Laurent Gizon, Jesper Schou, Aaron Birch, Robert Cameron and others offer PhD projects in solar physics and astrophysics. Helioseismology and asteroseismology are used as important tools to study the oscillating Sun and stars.
The longest-serving solar observatory in space has turned 25 and is still making significant contributions to solar research. Its old age has become an important merit.