ESA’s Gaia provides many new and improved insights into our galaxy and beyond with the release of five new data products. Among other findings, the mission reveals half a million new and faint stars in a massive cluster.

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Gaia space observatory will release new and expanded data on 10 October 2023, bringing findings that go far beyond what Gaia was initially designed for.

The Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) welcomes Dr. Meredith Powell as a new Karl Schwarzschild Fellow.

Today, the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and the Wüstenrot Foundation celebrated the completion of the renovation of the Einstein Tower in the Albert Einstein Science Park. At the ceremony, Minister of Science Dr. Manja Schüle and Potsdam’s Lord Mayor Mike Schubert spoke words of greeting for the opening as guests of honour.

The planet Mars is visiting the city of Potsdam in the form of a work of art from 16 to 28 September as part of the Science Year "Our Universe". The ceremonial opening will take place on Saturday, 16 September at 5:30 pm in the St. Nicholas Church.

“Cosmic Evolution of Matter on all Scales” is the theme of the annual conference of the German Astronomical Society, which began today at the TU Berlin and is expected to attract around 300 scientists working in the field of astronomy.

On the occasion of the Day of the Open Monument 2023, the “Förderverein Großer Refraktor e.V.” association will open the doors to the historic refracting telescope on 10 September from 10 am to 6 pm.

On 12 August, the Long Night of Astronomy invites to Tempelhofer Feld in Berlin from 5 pm to 1 am. The event not only gives visitors the opportunity to admire the Perseids meteor stream together, but also presents a colourful programme for the whole family.

Employing state-of-the-art numerical simulations, a study led by scientists at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) has obtained the first systematic characterization of the properties of stellar winds in a sample of cool stars.

Scientists at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and Boston University have successfully established a connection between the rotation rates of stars in star clusters and those outside them, so-called field stars, enabling the ages of the latter to be derived.

On 14 July 2023, Brandenburg's Minister of Science, Research and Culture Dr Manja Schüle will open an open-air exhibition on the Milky Way at the “Alter Markt” square in Potsdam’s city centre. The project was developed as part of the Science Year "Our Universe" and includes accompanying events such as lectures, student workshops and podcasts with Potsdam researchers.

Dr Timon Thomas, postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), is awarded the Michelson Prize by the Faculty of Science of the University of Potsdam for his outstanding dissertation on the field of theoretical astrophysics.

The discovery of a rare type of star system in two independent studies by the University of Warwick and the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) provides new insights into the dynamo model’s predictions for stellar evolution.

On the Telegrafenberg in Potsdam, the historic telescopes of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), namely the Great Refractor and the Einstein Tower, will be open to the public during the Long Night of Sciences on 17 June 2023.

On Thursday, 18th May 2023, the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) offers two public lectures: a virtual talk on the topic "LOFAR: A next generation radio telescope" will be broadcasted on the YouTube channel "Urknall, Weltall und das Leben" in the virtual Babelsberg Starry Nights series, and a live talk will be given in the mobile planetarium of the "Universe on Tour" roadshow at the Luisenplatz in Potsdam. Please note that both lectures will be given in German.

In May, the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) will participate in two event formats as part of the BMBF Science Year “Our Universe”: the roadshow "Universe on Tour" and the exhibition ship MS Wissenschaft. Both the ship and the planetarium can be visited for free.

More than 100 scientists meet from 8 to 12 May in Potsdam for the SOLARNET II Conference: “The Many Scales of the Magnetic Sun”.

On 6 May 2023, the Potsdam Science Day will take place for the tenth time, with more than 30 universities, schools and research institutions in Brandenburg presenting themselves – including the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP).

This year's Girls' Day/Future Day Brandenburg on 27 April once again offers girls an insight into occupational fields in which women have so far been underrepresented.

For nearly two decades the AIP has been participating in the NASA mission RHESSI. The spaceraft made 16 years of solar X-ray and gamma-ray observations in its low-Earth orbit before the mission ended in 2018 due to loss of communications. It is expected to finally re-enter the atmosphere and burn up on the night of 20 April.