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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Congratulations on a successful flyby! Our instruments #PEP-JEI and #SWI were turned on and we are excited to take a close look at the collected data!

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

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-...

capsule with tiny crumbs of meteorite Ivuna

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IMPRS Solar System School @imprs-solar.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Open PhD positions: The IMPRS for Solar System Science at the University of Göttingen and at TU Braunschweig is offering PhD projects in Star-Planet Interactions and in Planet Formation www.mps.mpg.de/phd/open-projects Star-Planet Interactions with E. Ilin […]

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IMPRS Solar System School @imprs-solar.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

Open PhD positions at our partner university TU Braunschweig: The Institute for Theoretical Physics is offering PhD projects in space and astrophysics, working with Y. Narita […]

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

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

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Open #PhDPositions!!! The #IMPRS for Solar System Science at @uni-goettingen.de and @tu-braunschweig.de is offering PhD projects in Star-Planet Interactions, Planet Formation, Space and Astrophysics: www.mps.mpg.de/phd/open-pro... Application deadline: Oct. 1st, 2026 #SolarSystemSchool

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Open PhD research projects in astrophysics and geophysics in Göttingen, Germany

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

All set up to follow the separation of @esa.int #BepiColombo from the Mercury Transfer Module. The Bepi team at #mpsgoetting and colleagues are eagerly awaiting the first step of the mission’s arrival at #Mercury. Join us watching live: www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup... YT: youtube.com/live/oC7lQng...

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MPS Göttingen @mpsgoettingen.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Everything set up to follow the ESA live stream on the Mercury Transfer Module (MTM) separation: The BepiColombo team at MPS Göttingen and colleagues are glued to the screen and are eagerly awaiting to see the outcome of the maneuver! Join us watching […] [Original post on academiccloud.social]

A setup oft large monitors in the corner of a high-ceilinged building. The ESA live stream is playing on the central monitor. To both sides there are BepiColombo posters. A crowd is seen from behind, watching.

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

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

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Goodbye, #Samba and #Tango! And goodbye, #RAPID! The instrument "Research with Adaptive Particle Imaging Detectors" was the #mpsgoettingen contribution to this unique, 26 year long mission. #Cluster

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

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

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

From glass beads and lunar map to #Mercury: New study indirectly determines SiO2-content of Mercury’s surface. With 37 %, it is less abundant than thought. Mercury’s crust must have formed by extreme volcanism. www.mps.mpg.de/mercury-s-cr... @uni-muenster.de @uni-goettingen.de @renggli.bsky.social

Three steps to Mercury. Step 1: Using laboratory measurements, the researchers established a relationship between infrared radiation and SiO2 content. Step 2: They verified this relationship using measurement data from the Moon and lunar samples. Step 3: Using infrared data from Mercury, the researchers were then able to determine the SiO2 content of Mercury’s surface.

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

#PhDCongratulations!!! 🥳🥳🥳Yifeng Fu of the #IMPRS #SolarSystemSchool successfully defended his thesis “Thermal Transport and Boundary Layer Asymmetry in Turbulent Spherical Rayleigh-Bénard Convection”. @uni-goettingen.de @goettingen-campus.de

Yifeng Fu with his supervisor Xiaojue Zhu

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

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.

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IMPRS Solar System School @imprs-solar.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2026

Wait, this happened already one month ago? High time to share these pictures then: Please enjoy these views taken during the Gänseliesel ceremony in Göttingen on July 24, when IMPRS graduates Prithwitosh Dey, Ilse de Langen, Neelanchal Joshi and […] [Original post on academiccloud.social]

Composite showing a fountain with a goose girl statue on a high pedestal surrounded by a crown on a sunny day. A woman wearing a tall doctoral hat has climbed the struture and is leaning towards the statue. Three inset images show close-ups of different people all also kissing the statue.

A doctoral cart in the shape of a space shuttle seen from the front, with people in it, and people outside pushing and steering it onto a city road. Even more people all around point cameras at the scene.

Side view of a doctoral cart showing that it's named "SpaceyMcSpaceface". People inside the cart are smiling and waving.

A group of people pushing the doctoral cart through an old city road, heading away from the camera.

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

For all book-lovers: The literary festival Göttinger Literaturherbst (Oct. 2nd - 11th) offers a lecture series devoted to popular science books. The program is now online – with topics like loneliness, bats, evolution, and democracy. 2 lectures are in English. www.mps.mpg.de/von-einsamke...

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

#PhDCongratulations!!! 🥳🥳🥳Yash Mandowara of the #IMPRS #SolarSystemSchool successfully defended his thesis “Measurements of the near-surface horizontal Reynolds stresses of the Sun’s global inertial modes”!!! @uni-goettingen.de @goettingen-campus.de

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

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

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Solar eclipse from Mambrilla de Castrejón, Burgos, Spain, Photographer: Betty Tsai of MPS

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MPS Göttingen @mpsgoettingen.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Live stream of the partial solar eclipse as seen from Göttingen, Germany at live.gwdg.de/play/sofi2026 by the University of Göttingen's Institute for Astrophysics and Geophysics: watch starting from 19h MESZ if viewing conditions happen to be less favourable from where you are located […]

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MPS Göttingen @mpsgoettingen.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy · 12/08/2026

Here's your Fediwall for today's solar eclipse to follow along online: live.gwdg.de/wall/?tags=sofi2026,so… […]

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Planetary Research Jobs @jobs.planetary-research.org · 06/08/2026

Job Announcement Category: Ph.D. Doctoral Researcher in Planet Formation with J. Drążkowska. Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany jobs.planetary-research.org/phd-pla…

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

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

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

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

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Come join us on August 12th in celebrating a partial #solareclipse and the #Perseids #meteorshower! Experience shows in a mobile #planetarium, hands-on experiments, lectures – and, of course, sky observations. #LangeNachtderAstronomie #SoFi2026 #Perseiden @uni-goettingen.de @goettingen-campus.de

Sonnenfinsternis + Sternschnuppen
12.8.2026., 15:30 - 23 Uhr
Shows im mobilen Planetarium, Vorträge, Live-Beobachtungen, Mitmach-Stände
www.mps.mpg.de/lange-nacht-der-astronomie-2026

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MPS Göttingen @mpsgoettingen.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/07/2026

#PhDCongratulations!!! 🥳🥳🥳 Sanghita Chandra of the IMPRS Solar System School successfully defended her thesis “Interpreting Solar Spicules using Synthetic Diagnostics from 3D Radiative Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations” at the @tubraunschweig @imprs_solar […] [Original post on academiccloud.social]

Half-portrait of a young woman with long black hair and a white dress looking down on a doctoral hat that she is holding in her hands. She is standing in front of a wooden door, smiling and pointing at objects on the hat.

Young woman just emerged through a wooden door doing a little happy dance. To her left, three man clapping. This is the moment the new doctor is presented to the world by her committee members.

Formal picture of a new doctor with her committee members. The successful candidate is wearing a doctoral hat, held on her head by the two people to her left an right. A forth person stands further to her right. All are in formal attire and looking towards the camera.

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

2 years after the stratospheric flight of #SunriseIII, first results are released today in a #SunriseIIIFocusIssue in The Astrophysical Journal Letters: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... Read more here: www.mps.mpg.de/oscillations...

sunspot in the photosphere imaged by Sunrise III's SUSI instrument

Sunrise III data showing a flare and the associated magnetic field in different layers of the Sun

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MPI for Multidisciplinary Sciences @mpi-nat.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

A pleasure to welcome the Max Planck Funding Foundation to Göttingen’s MPIs. Thank you for your generous support of basic research and for taking the time to engage with our scientists and their work! 🤝🔬 @mpips.bsky.social, @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social, MPI for Dynamics and Self-Organization

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

#PhDCongratulations!!! 🥳 As the 250th graduate of the #SolarSystemSchool, Ilse de Langen successfully defended her thesis today. Title: Modelling Magnetic Induction and Lorentz Force-Driven Flows in Europa’s Subsurface Ocean www.mps.mpg.de/a-magnetic-r... @uni-goettingen.de @tu-braunschweig.de 🔭🛰️

From left to right: Sonja Schuh (IMPRS Scientific Coordinator), Ilse de Langen (250. IMPRS graduate), and Sami K. Solanki (former IMPRS spokesperson)

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

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...

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

#PhDCongratulations!!! 🥳🥳🥳Neelanchal Joshi of the #IMPRS #SolarSystemSchool successfully defended his thesis “Measuring multiscale solar flows using local correlation tracking”!!! @uni-goettingen.de @uni-goettingen.de

Neelanchal Joshi and the examination committee

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Organics in #meteorites: In preparation for ESA’s search for life on #Mars with #RosalindFranklin, researchers from MPS, @uni-goettingen.de, @univcotedazur.bsky.social investigated the chirality of pristane and phytane in the Murchison meteorite. www.mps.mpg.de/mars-mission... @science.esa.int

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

#PhDCongratulations!!! 🥳🥳🥳Prithwitosh Dey of the #IMPRS #SolarSystemSchool successfully defended his thesis “Solar inertial modes as probes of rotation and convection”! @uni-goettingen.de @goettingen-campus.de

Group picture of Thesis Advisory Committee

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Did you know that you can follow our #IMPRS at @imprs-solar.academiccloud.social.ap.brid.gy? Additionally, you can enable two-way-interactions by following @ap.brid.gy. Enjoy!

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Sunrise III Data Release: 2 years after the flight of the balloon-borne solar observatory Sunrise III, terabytes of data are now online and offer a unique view of our star: sr3data.mps.mpg.de #Sun #SunriseIII #Sunrise3 #APL #NAOJ #IAA_CSIC #INTA @uv.es @upm.es @iacastrofisica.bsky.social #SSC

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 27/05/2026

We are very happy to announce the 90 outstanding researchers from across the world who have been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society this year, in fields from astronomy and cancer research to mathematics and biotechnology. #RSFellows royalsociety.org/news/2026/05...

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Exceptional scientists elected as Fellows of the Royal Society | Royal Society

Over 90 outstanding researchers from across the world have this year been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences.

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

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...

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Different #meteorites, same birthplace: The parent bodies of different groups of #CarbonaceousChondrites may have formed in the same region of the #SolarSystem. Published today in #TheAstrophysicalJournal: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3... More here: www.mps.mpg.de/different-me...

Just outside Jupiter’s orbit, a ring-shaped region of high gas pressure formed. In this “dust trap,” over several million years planetesimals of varying compositions were able to form.

Different groups of carbonaceous chondrites (here CO, CV, CM, TL, CI, and CR) can be traced back to different generations of planetesimals that formed over the course of about two million years. They differ in their proportions of fine-grained material (shown here in blue) and inclusions (shown here in brown).

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

FINAL TALK: We will wrap up our public lecture series “Im Feuerwerk der Sonne” on May 21st with a talk by Johann Hirzberger about ESA’s future #spaceweather mission #Vigil – and the #mpsgoettingen contribution. In German. More here: www.mps.mpg.de/im-feuerwerk... ☀️🌍🔭 @goettingen-campus.de

Do., 21. Mai 2026, 19 Uhr
Dr. Johann Hirzberger (MPS)
Mission Vigil: Weltraumwettervorhersage aus einzigartiger Perspektive

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

A look into the “GREGOR Observations Center” at #mpsgoettingen during this month’s remote campaign at #GREGORSolarTelescope. Many great #activeregions and #sunspots, but unfortunately clouds obstructed our view. Hoping for better conditions for our August campaign together with #SolarOrbiter.

Operations center with 3 scientists working at desks and several large monitors showing the GREGOR telescope, an active region and a full-disc view of the Sun.

Operations center with 3 scientists working at desks and several large monitors showing the GREGOR telescope, a sunspot and a full-disc views of the Sun.

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

COMING UP: next lecture in our series “Im Feuerwerk der Sonne” on May 7th, 7 PM. Natalie Krivova from #mpsgoettingen will speak about the most violent #solarstorms of the past 11.000 years. In German. More here: www.mps.mpg.de/im-feuerwerk... ☀️🌍🔭 @goettingen-campus.de

Do., 7. Mai 2026, 19 Uhr
Dr. Natalie Krivova (MPS)
Wenn die Sonne tobt: Auf den Spuren der stärksten Sonnenstürme des Holozäns

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Today we welcomed Dr. Ramanuj Banerjee, Counsellor S&T at the Indian Embassy, and representatives of @uni-goettingen.de. A great opportunity to present our research and speak about collaboration between scientists from India, Göttingen and within @maxplanck.de . Many thanks for your visit!

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

#GirlsDay and #BoysDay at #mpsgoettingen: 24 curious girls and boys explored our institute and had a chance to print with iron meteorites, “cook” solar plasma and get hands-on experience in our labs and workshops. It was great to have you! Thanks for an exciting day! #Zukunftstag #Zukunftstag2026

Scientist shows an etched iron meteorite to students

engineers explaining today's tests in our vibrational testing facility

hands-on work in our mechanical workshop

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Tech Explorist @techexplorist.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Scientists discover how solar prominences survive for months through a continuous plasma refill system, improving understanding of solar storms and space weather. @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social

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Researchers investigated how solar prominences form and their secret to longevity

Solar prominences mystery solved by new simulations.

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

#Solar #prominences are huge, beautiful structures in the #corona. Some are stable for weeks relying on constant replenishing of fresh material. A study published today in @natastron.nature.com explores their “supply logistics”: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... More: www.mps.mpg.de/solar-promin... ☀️🔭

The new computer simulations are based on a magnetic field structure that is often associated with prominences: the magnetic field lines in the corona form a double arc with a small dip in the middle. As the calculations show, the flame-like prominence forms in this dip and remains trapped there. All relevant layers of the Sun were taken into account, from the corona, the Sun’s outer atmosphere, to parts of the convection zone below the Sun’s surface.

A sequence of images from the new computer simulations. The flame-like prominence extends up to about 20,000 kilometers into the corona and constantly changes shape. Occasionally, some of its material “rains” back down into the Sun’s lower-laying layers (image D).

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

DON’T MISS: next lecture in our lecture series “Im Feuerwerk der Sonne” on April 16th, 7 PM. Volker Bothmer from @uni-goettingen.de will speak about the effects of dangerous #SpaceWeather on terrestrial infrastructure. In German. More here: www.mps.mpg.de/im-feuerwerk... ☀️🌍🔭 @goettingen-campus.de

Öffentliche Vortragsreihe "Im Feuerwerk der Sonne"
Do., 16. April 2026, 19 Uhr
Dr. Volker Bothmer (Universität Göttingen)
Gefahren von Weltraumwetter für unsere moderne Infrastruktur

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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

It’s cherry blossom time! 💮💮💮Hans-Adolf-Krebs-Weg behind #mpsgoettingen has turned into a lovely cherry walk – offering glimpses of the institute’s far side amidst a sea of white blossoms. Maybe an idea for an evening stroll? #Kirschpost #CherryBlossom @uni-goettingen.de @goettingen-campus.de

View of the far side of MPS through boughs with cherry blossoms

Hans-Adolf-Krebs-Weg lined with blooming cherry trees with MPS sign

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René Heller @drreneheller.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Here's an animation of the first observation field of our PLATO Mission with ESA. The animation is based on the newly released PLATO Input Catalog: youtu.be/rU3fas8NFHY?... Soundtrack produced with my dear friend Achim Rust in an overnight synthesizer session.

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