In the dark season, the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) is once again inviting visitors to the popular Babelsberg Starry Nights at its research campus. The next lecture will take place on Tuesday, 14 October 2025, at 7:15 p.m.

Scientists at the AIP have uncovered the intricate magnetic heartbeat of a distant star remarkably similar to our own Sun—but much younger and more active. This groundbreaking study, part of the Far Beyond the Sun campaign, follows nearly three years of ultra precise observations and sheds new light on how stars like our Sun generate their magnetic fields—and how these fields evolve over time.

Dr Meetu Verma is one of the recipients of this year's WISER programme, a joint initiative of the Indian government's Ministry of Science and Technology (DST) and the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR).

At the next virtual Babelsberg Starry Night of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), Dr Marcel Pawlowski answers questions about his lectures on satellite galaxies and MOND – alternative theories of gravity. The video will be broadcast on the YouTube channel ‘Urknall, Weltall und das Leben’ (Big Bang, Universe and Life) from 18 September 2025.

The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has awarded the prestigious Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award to Dr. Alexis Rouillard, researcher at the Astrophysics and Planetology Research Institute in Toulouse to deepen his research on solar winds at AIP.

The Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) will once again take part at the nationwide Long Night of Astronomy on 13 September 2025.

A newly published study led by AIP presents a comprehensive catalogue of solar energetic electron events and shows that the apparent delay between solar eruptions and the detection of electrons in space is not due to late release, but to their turbulent journey through the solar wind.

The next talk of the Virtual Babelsberg Starry Nights of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) on the topic "ANDES – high resolution spectrograph for the ELT " (in German) by Dr. Michael Weber will be broadcast on the YouTube channel “Urknall, Weltall und das Leben” (Big Bang, Universe and Life) from Thursday, 17.07.2025.

From 14 to 18 July 2025, more than 150 selected scientists will meet at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) to discuss current challenges and developments in astrophysics at the 18th Potsdam Thinkshop. This year's edition of the international event series is dedicated to the topic of ‘The Role of Feedback in Galaxy Formation’.

Astronomers have witnessed a planet causing eruptions on its parent star. The discovery, published in Nature, could reshape our understanding of how planets and stars interact and evolve together.

The next talk of the Virtual Babelsberg Starry Nights of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) on the topic "What binary stars tell us about the rotation of stars" (German) by Dr. David Gruner will be broadcast on the YouTube channel “Urknall, Weltall und das Leben” (Big Bang, Universe and Life) from Thursday, 19.06.2025.

On Wednesday 28 May 2025, the Maria-Margaretha-Kirch building will be officially opened on the campus of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam.