Astronomers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and the Vatican Observatory (VO) teamed up to spectroscopically survey more than 1000 bright stars that potentially host exoplanets.

On Saturday, February 25, the exhibition "Sun. The source of light" at the Museum Barberini. Besides great works by Claude Monet, William Turner and Otto Dix, 15 photographic plates of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) will be presented.

A new instrument, WEAVE, at the William Herschel Telescope on La Palma, an island of the Canaries, has seen first light. It analysed the light of a pair of galaxies 280 million light years away from Earth. The Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) is one of the project's partners and AIP scientists will get access to its excellent data.

Dr Rainer Weinberger will join the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) in 2023 as a Leibniz junior group leader with a project focused on sophisticated cosmological simulations.

“Excellent and visible internationally”: The AIP receives all-around positive feedback in its evaluation, an independent assessment of all Leibniz institutions repeated regularly.

The next lecture of the virtual Babelsberg Starry Nights of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) will be broadcasted starting on Thursday, 17 November 2022 on the YouTube channel "Urknall, Weltall und das Leben". Please note that the lecture will be given in German.

The Gaia collaboration, which is responsible for the spacecraft that is currently building the largest and most precise three-dimensional map of our galaxy, will receive the 2023 Lancelot M. Berkeley − New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy.

On 10 November at the Berlin Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, leading researchers in the field of galaxy evolution will discuss the first results and future prospects of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) together with other observatories in a dedicated Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Symposium.

Planets can force their host stars to act younger than their age, according to a new study of multiple systems authored by scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory.

Around noon on 25 October 2022, the moon will partially move in front of the Sun. Interested amateur astronomers can observe the partial solar eclipse at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP).

In order to be able to transfer the latest research results into practice even faster in the future, innoFSPEC has founded the innoFSPEC transfer laboratory together with the new transfer professorship of the University of Potsdam, Professor von Grünberg.

German Center for Astrophysics – Research. Technology. Digitization. (DZA) successful in competition for structural funding.

From 3 October 2022, minimal art will be on display in the Great Refractor on Telegrafenberg. The exhibition with works by the sculptor Gaedicke and graphic artist Ranft takes place in memory of a similar exhibition 40 years ago.

From 7 to 9 September, 60 scientists come to Potsdam Babelsberg to discuss exoplanet atmospheres, and their observations with high spectral resolution, in the Thinkshop conference series of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP).

From 4 to 9 September, the international meeting Scientific Detector Workshop 2022 will take place in Potsdam to discuss the latest developments in the field of imaging sensors.

New observations of the red supergiant suggest that the 2019 mass ejection of its atmosphere might significantly affects its fate. This doesn't mean Betelgeuse is going to explode any time soon, but the late-life convulsions yield clues as to how red stars lose mass late in their lives as their nuclear fusion furnaces burn out, before exploding as supernovae.

Tobias Buck will start a junior research group at Heidelberg University dedicated to the topic of machine learning in astrophysics. The research project is funded by the Carl Zeiss Foundation with about 1.5 million euros over six years.

At the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), people not only of different nationalities but also of different sexual orientations or identities work closely together. On Pride Day Germany 2022, the AIP visibly shows to the outside world how a respectful and tolerant working atmosphere is lived at the Babelsberg campus.

The fourth and final data release of the APPLAUSE project offers a total of 94,000 digitized astronomical photographic plates, which were analysed and catalogued using modern methods like machine learning. In addition to scans of plates from Bamberg and the Karl Schwarzschild Observatory near Jena, digitized images from the Vatican Observatory now become available for the first time.

On the 50th anniversary of the discovery of a close connection between star formation in galaxies and their infrared and radio radiation, researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) have now deciphered the underlying physics. To this end, they used novel computer simulations of galaxy formation with a complete modeling of cosmic rays.