Institute Reports

Prof. Dr. Thomas Henning, Director of the Planet and Star Formation (PSF) Department at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg, Germany, will receive the prestigious Karl Schwarzschild Medal of the German Astronomical Society (AG). The important award will be presented to him on September 12, 2023, during the annual meeting of the German Astronomical Society in Berlin.
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German research institutes are pleased with the first test images more

German research institutes participating at the forefront of dark matter and dark energy research more

MICADO and METIS are two of the four first-generation instruments for ESO’s Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) that will go to the telescope later this decade. MPIA is a consortium partner in both projects and just started to manufacture various sub-systems of the instruments. A mini-documentary about both instruments was screened during a live event on ESO’s YouTube channel on Friday, 12^th May. more

The CARMENES program, led by a consortium of Spanish and German research institutions, in which the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) is a partner, has released 20,000 observations of more than 300 stars. These measurements led to the discovery of 59 planets, some potentially habitable. more