innoFSPEC Potsdam – centre of innovation competence innoFSPEC receives "Location 2011 in the Country of Ideas" award. The ceremonial act, which is coupled to a public event, took place at AIP during the "Girls’ Day 2011".

On Monday April 11, 2011, the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam honors its long-time colleague Horst Künzel with a festive colloquium on the occasion of his 90th birthday.

Tidal effects change the concept of the habitable zone.

Astrophysicists find new remnants of a neighbouring galaxy in our own galaxy.