Scientific Highlights
Closer to the Sun than ever
5 October 2011. Scientists in Potsdam are preparing for the start of ESA’s “Solar Orbiter” mission
Two new brown dwarf Solar neighbours discovered
14 July 2011
400 years of research in sunspots
21 June 2011 - The first scientific article about sunspots was published 400 years ago on 23 June 1611. Scientists of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and the University Oulu in Finland are now reconstructing tens of thousands of sunspots: the solar activity over four centuries. Looking back on history, they also want to understand better the future of the activity of the Sun.
SPINSTARS: the first polluters of the Universe?
27 April 2011. Astrophysicists find imprints of fast rotating massive stars in the bulge of our galaxy
New conditions for life on other planets
24 February 2011. Tidal effects change the concept of the habitable zone
A small snack for the Milky Way
02 February 2011. Astrophysicists find new remnants of a neighbouring galaxy in our own galaxy.
Astronomers Release the Largest Color Image of the Sky Ever Made (press release by the SDSS collaboration)
11 January 2011.