In the foreground a sphere with dark and red-orange shades as well as horizontal stripes in front of a black background. Within it are scattered small bright dots. In the upper right you can see two bright dots standing close together.

Hot sand clouds on a young gas-giant planet orbiting two stars

March 22, 2023

JWST obtains a direct spectrum of the young exoplanet VHS 1256 b, not relying on transit measurements more

The James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Intricate Networks of Gas and Dust in Nearby Galaxies

The James Webb Space Telescope Reveals Intricate Networks of Gas and Dust in Nearby Galaxies

February 16, 2023

New insight into where stars are being born in galaxies more

Surface of a fictitious planet. It consists of hills of rock. In the background is a lake. The sky has some clouds. Near the horizon a sun shines and bathes the picture in a reddish colour.

A nearby potentially habitable Earth-mass exoplanet

February 03, 2023

Astronomers find a rare rocky Earth-mass planet suited to probe for life signs more

The image shows a tile with pictures of 10 Max Planck researchers who were successful in the 2022 ERC Consolidator Grant award process. They are Annalisa Pillepich, MPI for Astronomy, Philip J.W. Moll, MPI for Structure and Dynamics of Matter, Simone Kuehn, MPI for Education Research, Joshua Wilde, MPI for Demographic Research Meritxell Huch, MPI for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dora Tang, MPI for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Aljaz Godec, MPI for Multidisciplinary Natural Sciences, Stéphane Hacquard, MPI for Plant Breeding Research, Hiroshi Ito, MPI for Brain Research, and Daniel Schramek, MPI for Molecular Genetics.

10 ERC Consolidator Grants for Max Planck researchers

February 02, 2023

This result puts Max Planck in second place in a Europe-wide comparison more

Numerical simulations of planetesimal formation reproduce key properties of asteroids, comets

Numerical simulations of planetesimal formation reproduce key properties of asteroids, comets

February 01, 2023

With simulations that go into finer details than ever before, Brooke Polak of the University of Heidelberg and Hubert Klahr at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) have modeled a key phase in the formation of planets in our solar system. more

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