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Including many former and current scientists and engineers from #MPSGoettingen!
Thanks for your contributions to the mission! ☀️🔭
#SolarOrbiter #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
science.esa.int ESA Space Science @science.esa.int · Feb 11
💫🎉 Behind every successful ESA space mission, there's a woman. Behind the ESA & NASA Solar Orbiter mission, there are more than a hundred of them!

Join us in celebrating them today, on international day of women and girls in science!
#WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
🔭🧪

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Collage of women who contributed to the ESA & NASA Solar Orbiter mission
February 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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What a sight! The #NorthernLights were clearly visible in the skies above #Goettingen last night. Here are some shots captured by #mpsgoettingen employees. Enjoy!
And thanks to everyone for sharing!
#aurora
orange Northern Lights above trees red and green Northern Lights green Northern Light red Northern Lights against silhouette of 6 people
January 20, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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Using the #InouyeSolarTelescope and computer simulations, researchers from #NationalSolarObservatory, #mpsgoettingen and #HighAltitudeObservatory reveal tiny vortices on the Sun’s surface. They are signs of Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. Published today in @nature.com .
Video: NSF/NSO/AURA/MPS
August 5, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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Congratulations! For re-examining and improving a 33-year-old reconstruction of #solarirradiance, #MPSGoettingen scientist Theodosios Chatzistergos received the #KeesdeJagerPrize for best publication in the journal #SolarPhysics. The award was now presented. www.mps.mpg.de/kees-de-jage...
Two people present a framed certificate in front of a screen displaying text.
December 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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#IMPRS interview week is here! Applicants for @imprs-solar.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy, lovingly called
#SolarSystemSchool, are at #MPSGoettingen to learn more about the institute and its research. Enjoy your week of tours, lectures, interviews and socializing!
March 19, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Representatives of #mpsgoettingen and #SenckenbergNatureResearchSociety presented the new meteorite collection at #mpsgoettingen today. @sgn.one @maxplanck.de
Prof. Dr. Thorsten Kleine, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, and Prof. Dr. Andreas Mulch, Director at the Senckenberg Research Institution and Nature Museum Dr. Jan Hellmann, Prof. Dr. Thorsten Kleine, Prof. Dr. Andreas Mulch, and Dr. Jutta Zipfel during the media briefing
September 16, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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Congratulations! At the 57th annual meeting of the @aas.org #SolarPhysicsDivision in Baltimore, #mpsgoettingen scientist Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta was awarded this year’s #KarenHarveyPrize. His research has helped to shape our understanding of the dynamic nature of the #Sun’s #corona. 🔭☀️🛰️
Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta receiving the award certificate.
August 27, 2026 at 6:18 AM
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Great photo of the total solar eclipse on August 12th, 2026 as witnessed by #mpsgoettingen director Sami K. Solanki in Praia do Lago das Pontes, Spain.
#solareclipse #solareclipse2026
total solar eclipse over water with hills in the background
August 17, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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Congratulations! #mpsgoettingen Director Sami K. Solanki has been elected to the Fellowship of the @royalsociety.org . This is in recognition of Solanki’s contributions to our understanding of the dynamic nature of the #Sun, its magnetism and activity.
Read more here: www.mps.mpg.de/sami-solanki...
Sami Solanki
May 27, 2026 at 9:41 AM
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The last few days have brought a mix of rain and sunshine to Göttingen. From an office window, #mpsgoettingen scientist Walter Goetz was able to catch this lovely shot of a double #rainbow above the institute. Many thanks for sharing! @goettingen-campus.de
double rainbow above MPS
August 31, 2026 at 7:14 AM
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Congratulations!!! Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta of #mpsgoettingen is awarded 2026 #KarenHarveyPrize by @aas.org #SolarPhysicsDivision.
His research shows how tiny magnetic structures and processes determine the dynamic nature of the corona: www.mps.mpg.de/high-honor-f...
@erc.europa.eu #heliophysics ☀️🔭
aas.org American Astronomical Society (AAS) @aas.org · Feb 13
2026 Hale, Harvey, and González Prize Winners

The AAS Solar Physics Division is recognizing Yi-Ming Wang, Lakshmi Pradeep Chitta, and Paola Testa for their groundbreaking scientific achievements and exemplary leadership within the solar physics community. aas.org/posts/news/2... 🔭
February 16, 2026 at 7:51 AM
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Current observations from ESA’s #SolarOrbiter help #PredictiveScienceInc predict what the #corona will look like during the upcoming #SolarEclipse2026. Input is data from the instrument SO/PHI designed and built at #mpsgoettingen. www.mps.mpg.de/solar-orbite...
@science.esa.int #SolarEclipse
Simulations showing what the Sun's corona is likely to look like as viewed from Spain at the time of the solar eclipse. magnetogram of the Sun provided by SO/PHI
August 7, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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Researchers from #mpsgoettingen and @colorado.edu find new evidence, that the #Sun can produce #superflares: The great #sunspot of 1947 had the potential to trigger a massive burst of radiation. www.mps.mpg.de/sun-new-evid... Published today in Phil.Trans.R.Soc.A.
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Superflare on a sun-like star
September 10, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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4780 rocks from space: The #meteorite collection of @maxplanck.de has found a new home at #mpsgoettingen. For more than 20 years, the collection was preserved by @sgn.one , its origins lie at the @mpic.de and the #MaxPlanckInstituteforNuclearPhysics.
www.mps.mpg.de/4780-steine-...
meteorite Horace Slab of the stone-iron-meteorite Imilac slice of the iron meteorite Maltahöhe capsule with tiny crumbs of meteorite Ivuna
September 16, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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Technical First Light! The #InouyeSolarTelescope ’s Visible Tunable Filtergraph, developed and built at the Institute for Solar Physics (#KIS), looks at the #Sun for the first time. #MPSGoettingen is a partner of the project. Read more here:
www.mps.mpg.de/the-heart-of...
#NSO #NSF
Sunspot as seen by VTF
April 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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ESA's #SolarOrbiter and JAXA's #Hinode spacecrafts team up to study the velocity of horizontal plasma flows at the Sun's surface. More in ESA's Science Nugget provided by scientists from #mpsgoettingen, @iaacsic.bsky.social and #NAOJ:
www.cosmos.esa.int/web/solar-or...
@esascience.bsky.social ☀️🔭
Plot showing the positions of the Sun, Earth/Hinode and Solar Orbiter during observations.
February 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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Astronomy Day is well underway at #MPSGoettingen. We saw the partial #SolarEclipse only briefly, but are still enjoying our #heliotrope. And many thanks to Achim Gandorfer for a great kids’ lecture about the #Sun! @thegoecampus.bsky.social
@sternfreunde.de #TagderRaumfahrt #AstronomieTag
People watching the image of the Sun projected by a heliotrope A pile of eclipse glasses Kids' lecture
March 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Planetary systems can be extremely different - and quite unlike the #SolarSystem. The new Lise Meitner Group at #mpsgoettingen headed by @astrojoanna.bsky.social models planetary formation in a unified theory. Read more here: www.mps.mpg.de/studying-pla...
#LiseMeitnerGroup #planet @maxplanck.de 🔭
January 27, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Today's #mpsgoettingen Summer Workshop offers the perfect opportunity for the entire institute to get together and discuss ongoing and future projects.
Group photo of all MPS employees infront of the institute
September 3, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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Tomorrow, Max Planck goes to school!
34 school classes will welcome a scientist from one of the Max Planck Institutes in Göttingen. From #MPSGoettingen, 16 scientists will participate and speak about #exoplanets, #solarstorms etc. #MaxPlanckgehtzurSchule
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Group picture of nine scientists dressed in a black MPS T-shirt gathered around a statue of Max Planck in the foyer of the MPS
September 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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Using the #inouyesolartelescope and computer simulations, researchers from #nationalsolarobservatory, #mpsgoettingen and #highaltitudeobservatory reveal tiny vortices on the Sun’s surface that have never been seen before.
They are interpreted as signs of […]

[Original post on academiccloud.social]
August 5, 2026 at 5:40 PM
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Congratulations!
We are now looking forward to #Proba-3 's data phase. #mpsgoettingen is participating in the design and supplying of the software pipeline to compute the highest quality coronal images for scientific analysis from the raw data: www.mps.mpg.de/6884329/prob... 🔭☀️🛰️
esa.int European Space Agency @esa.int · Jun 16
Breaking space news: We have made our own solar eclipse in space! 🌘

Today, we release the first images from our Proba-3 mission, which flies two spacecraft in precise formation to create artificial solar eclipses in orbit.

Learn more ➡️ www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...
June 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Congratulations!!! 🥳 @humboldt-foundation.de has awarded the Humboldt Research Award to solar scientist Durgesh Tripathi of Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics. The award will enable Tripathi to deepen his collaboration with #mpsgoettingen. #IUCAA
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award ceremony
June 25, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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Could the #Sun be responsible for #ClimateChange? In his #TEDx talk on the subject, #mpsgoettingen director Sami Solanki looks into our star’s capricious past, at its more recent behavior – and gives a clear and definite answer. View here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQ21...
Could the sun be responsible for climate change? | Dr. Sami K. Solanki | TEDxHHN
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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August 22, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Und inzwischen probieren es unsere Besucher*innen begeistert selbst aus.

@ndw_goe

#ndwgoe #ndwgoemps #goettingen #mpsgoettingen #mars #mond #meteorit
June 21, 2025 at 6:21 PM