#MPSGoettingen
Including many former and current scientists and engineers from #MPSGoettingen!
Thanks for your contributions to the mission! ☀️🔭
#SolarOrbiter #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
💫🎉 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
🔭🧪

www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...
February 11, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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
January 20, 2026 at 11:10 AM
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
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...
December 19, 2025 at 2:06 PM
#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
Representatives of #mpsgoettingen and #SenckenbergNatureResearchSociety presented the new meteorite collection at #mpsgoettingen today. @sgn.one @maxplanck.de
September 16, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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. 🔭☀️🛰️
August 27, 2026 at 6:18 AM
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
August 17, 2026 at 1:55 PM
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...
May 27, 2026 at 9:41 AM
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
August 31, 2026 at 7:14 AM
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 ☀️🔭
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
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
August 7, 2026 at 10:09 AM
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.
@royalsocietypublishing.org
September 10, 2026 at 1:30 PM
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-...
September 16, 2026 at 4:32 PM
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
April 24, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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 ☀️🔭
February 4, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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
March 29, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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
Today's #mpsgoettingen Summer Workshop offers the perfect opportunity for the entire institute to get together and discuss ongoing and future projects.
September 3, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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
@mpi-nat.bsky.social @mpimmg.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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
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... 🔭☀️🛰️
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
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
www.mps.mpg.de/durgesh-trip...
June 25, 2026 at 8:01 AM
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
www.youtube.com
August 22, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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