Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research

Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research: Cutting edge scientific research on our Sun, the planets and their moons, asteroids and comets. Tweets in en/de.

[Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @MPSGoettingen]

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[Miriam Rengel @miriamrengel]

Excited to share our discovery! 🔭We observed extremely powerful winds pummeling the equator of the exoplanet WASP-127b. I’m proud to be part of the VLT/CRIRES+ consortium! @MPSGoettingen @SPP_exoplanets

[Informationsdienst Wissenschaft - Nachrichten @idw_online_de]

Der #Mond ist der #Erde ähnlicher als gedacht: Ein Forschungsteam der @uniGoettingen und des @MPSGoettingen hat neue Erkenntnisse zur Entstehung des Mondes sowie des Wassers auf der Erde gewonnen.
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[Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @MPSGoettingen]

Together with #Huygens, hardware from #MPSGoettingen made its way to the surface of #Titan. We contributed the CCD detector and associated operation electronics to the instrument #DISR – and thus helped to take the first and to date only pictures from the surface of an icy moon.

[ESA Science @esascience]

On 14 January 2005, ESA’s #Huygens probe made history as it touched down on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. This was humanity's first successful landing on a world in the outer Solar System.

Relive those moments with this narrated video done with Huygens data https://t.co/kHVwiMtx0S 1/3

[Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @MPSGoettingen]

This year’s public lecture series at #MPSGoettingen will be devoted to #Earth and its cosmic next of kin: the inner #planets #Mercury, #Venus and #Mars. Find more info here: https://t.co/mR35n8c7XO All lectures in German. See you there! #innerplanets @thegoecampus

[Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @MPSGoettingen]

All scientific instruments to which #MPSGoettingen has contributed i.e. #BELA, #MIXS, #SERENA and #MPPE are switched on during flyby and we’re looking forward to cool new data. #bepicolombo #Mercury #Flyby

[BepiColombo @BepiColombo]

Here's an image taken 5.5 hours before closest approach, when #bepicolombo was 44950 km from Mercury's southern hemisphere. The planet is at the bottom of the picture, below two of the spacecraft's booms.

[Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @MPSGoettingen]

In the current episode of the German TV Show “Spacetime” devoted to planetary #atmospheres, #MPSGoettingen scientist Paul Hartogh speaks about the gas layers surrounding #Earth, #Venus and #Mars as well as the search for life on #exoplanets: https://t.co/bHeG1epDCt
In German.

[Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @MPSGoettingen]

Millions of years after formation, the Moon’s immense volcanic activity reheated its crust. As scientists from @ucsantacruz, #MPSGoettingen and @cdf1530 argue today in @Nature, the Moon is at least 4.43 billion years old, but its crust is younger. More: https://t.co/GxHyFYZhQT

[Submillimetre Wave Instrument (SWI) @SWI_JUICE]

2024 was tense and successful with the SWI cruise phase operations PCW01, PCW02 and LEGA!
Looking forward to 2025 operations!

@ESA_JUICE @EuropeSpacePort @Arianespace @AirbusSpace @MPSGoettingen
#happyholidays #ESAJuice

[Sunrise Solar Observatory @Sunrise_III]

Watch #Sunrise_III’s unique research flight in the #stratosphere as seen by the onboard cameras provided by the #IRIS-2 project. Includes launch and landing! https://t.co/KThu3nSm5o

[Sunrise Solar Observatory @Sunrise_III]

Today, #Sunrise_III shares its 1st images of the #Sun! Read more here: https://t.co/BnrwZ5NssU
@iaa_csic @prcnaoj_en #KIS @JHUAPL @maxplanckpress @CSIC @MPSGoettingen @UV_EG @La_UPM @IAC_Astrofisica

[Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @MPSGoettingen]

Read more about our research into #superflares in the New York Times!

[NYT Science @NYTScience]

New findings suggest that an extraordinarily powerful and dangerous burst of radiation might flare from our sun in the future. https://t.co/1Hv6SMgsNX

[Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @MPSGoettingen]

What a blast! #Sun-like stars produce a #superflare on average about once every century per star, a research team led by #MPSGoettingen shows in today’s issue of @sciencemagazine. More here: https://t.co/GsigkmZWnA @UniGraz @UniOulu @prcnaoj_en @CUBoulder @unipariscite

[Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @MPSGoettingen]

Congratulations, #Proba3, and have a safe trip! Looking forward to a unique formation flight – and to new data from the #Sun. #MPSGoettingen has developed software for the mission’s scientific data analysis and will use the data to learn more about the solar #corona.

[ESA Operations @esaoperations]

#Proba3 just deployed its solar panel!

[Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @MPSGoettingen]

Today saw the last day of the 14th meeting on “(Exo)Planet Diversity, Formation and Evolution” at #MPSGoettingen. Thanks for three days full of talks, discussions, and new insights! #exoplanets #planets #stars

[Forum Wissen GÖ @ForumWissenGoe]

Let the sun shine in!🌞
Die neue Ausstellung #Sonnenansichten gibt Einblicke in die Sonnenforschung. Im Fokus: Ein Film über die Sunrise III-Mission, die die Sonne aus der Stratosphäre erforschte. In Zusammenarbeit mit dem @MPSGoettingen!

📅 4.12.24 – 15.2.25 | #ForumWissen

[Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @MPSGoettingen]

Tonight, #MPSGoettingen Director Sami Solanki reports on @Sunrise_III’s adventurous flight across the Atlantic. At 7.30 PM in @uniGoettingen's ZHG. In German. The talk is part of the series “Faszinierendes Weltall” of the Förderkreis Planetarium Göttingen. https://t.co/GM9G21JGp0

[Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @MPSGoettingen]

During its #Uranus flyby in 1986, @NASAVoyager 2 encountered a haywire #magnetosphere due to unusual solar wind conditions. Read more about the new analysis of the 38 year old data here: https://t.co/6d1lwYCmLi

[Nature Astronomy @NatureAstronomy]

A reanalysis of the 1986 Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus shows that it occurred during an extreme compression of the planet’s magnetosphere by the solar wind. This would have had significant effects on the measurements made during the flyby. @spaceJamieJ et al.: https://t.co/Bexf06nbR7

[Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @MPSGoettingen]

Two insights into solar research at @MPSGoettingen on German TV today! At 6.30 PM, the science show #3sat NANO will report on the @Sunrise_III mission: https://t.co/KTaN4ismhs A bit later at 6.45 PM, MPS-Director Sami Solanki will be live on the show DAS! https://t.co/MLYc5QYCt6

[Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @MPSGoettingen]

#PhDCongratulations! 🥳Fridolin Spitzer of the #IMPRS “Solar System School” successfully defended his PhD thesis “The onset of planet formation inferred from isotope anomalies in meteorites” today!
@uniGoettingen
@thegoecampus