MPIA News

MICADO (Multi-AO Imaging Camera for Deep Observations), the powerful high-resolution camera for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) of the European Southern Observatory ESO, is one of four large scientific instruments with which the world's largest telescope for the visible and infrared wavelength range, which is currently under construction, will begin its scientific operations in Chile before the end of this decade. The instrument has now passed the Final Design Review (FDR) - a major milestone also for the team of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA Heidelberg) involved in the construction of the high-tech instrument. more

MPIA builds essential elements for an instrument of the Roman Space Telescope to test a pioneering camera design more

The European Space Agency ESA presents today new fascinating astronomical images taken with the Euclid space telescope. The occasion is the release of the scientific “Early Release Observations” - the first purely scientific measurements, which will now also be published successively and for which corresponding publications will also appear in reviewed journals. The new images once again document the outstanding performance of the telescope, in which the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg (MPIA) is also involved both technically and scientifically. more

Myriam Benisty is now officially new Director at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg, and succeeds Thomas Henning, who will remain at the institute on the Königstuhl as Director Emeritus. On September 1^st, Ms. Benisty will be moving from the Institute of Planetology and Astrophysics of Grenoble (IPAG) and Observatory of the Côte d’Azur (OCA) to Heidelberg. more

A few days ago, an important milestone was reached for the first high-tech measuring instrument of the largest telescope of all time for optical and infrared wavelengths, the ELT, which is currently under construction in Chile: The instrument called METIS, in whose development and construction the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) is also significantly involved, has become the first ELT instrument to pass the so-called "Final Design Review”. more