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Announcement of the talk "Distant Quasars: The Observational Key to the Formation of Structure Across Scales" by Sarah Bosman on 21 July 2026 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12, illustrated with two photographs of old keys
Announcement of the talk "The Interstellar Visitors" by Colin Snodgrass on 14 July 2026 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12, illustrated with a photograph of a brass orrery and armillarsphere
Announcement of the talk "Expediting Astronomical Discovery with AI Agents: Progress, Challenges, and Future Directions" by Yuan-Sen Ting on 7 July 2026 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12, illustrated with a colored drawing of a group of Native Americans in traditional clothing
Announcement of the talk "Black holes and revelations: unseen companions in stellar binaries" by Kareem El-Badry on 30 June 2026 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12, illustrated with an engraving showing different animals, including a lion and a fox, under a tree
Announcement of the talk "From Cosmic Dawn to Present-Day: Galaxy Formation and Evolution Through Cosmic Time" by Rhea-Silvia Remus on 23 June 2026 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12, illustrated with a classical Japanese print: Futami-ga-ura Rocks at Ise, Land of Dawn by Utagawa Kunisada
Announcement of the talk "Solving Inverse Problems in Astronomy with Invertible Neural Networks" by Victor Ksoll on 169 June 2026 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12, illustrated with a photograph of a golden beaker artifact with a face on it
Announcement of the talk "NLTE effects in the atmospheres of ultra-hot Jupiters" by Luca Fossati on 9 June 2026 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12, illustrated with a photograph of a bronze statuette of Jupiter
Announcement of the talk "Astrostatistical innovations to decode the history of our galaxy" by Aarya Patil on 2 June 2026 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12, illustrated with a photograph of a scarab covered with hieroglyphs
Announcement of the talk "Stellar evolution & black hole coagulation in AGNs: an analogue of planet formation" by Douglas Lin on 26 May 2026 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12, illustrated with a photograph of a blue artifact of a rosetta-like star
Announcement of the talk "Early Galactic Disks and Their Connections to Present-Day Galaxies" by Oscar Agertz on 19 May 2026 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12, illustrated with a photograph of a round archeological object object painted with colourful ring patterns.
Announcement of the talk "Ultraviolet spectroscopy of metal-poor stars: new advances and new opportunities" by Ian Roederer on 12 May 2026 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12, illustrated with a woodcut of a angel-like figure standing with one leg slightly bent and barefoot, holding a figurine of with stars on it in their right hand.
Announcement of the talk "Solar models and their uncertainties: the current state and the impact for PLATO" by Gaël Buldgen on 5 May 2026 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12, illustrated with a woodcut of a figure standing with one leg slightly bent and barefoot, holding a Figurine of the Sun with a face in their right hand.
Announcement of the talk "Strongly Interacting Multiple Planet Systems as a Rosetta Stone for Planet Formation" by Trifon Trifonov on 28 April 2026 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12, illustrated with a woodcut of a figure standing with one leg slightly bent and barefoot, holding a horned, dragon-like object in their right hand.
Announcement of the talk "eROSITA’s Legacy in Structure Formation and Evolution and Cosmology" by Esra Bulbul on 3 February 2026 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12, illustrated with a painting of a coastal arch
Announcement of the talk "The Growth of Supermassive Black Holes" by Anna-Christina Eilers on 27 January 2026 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12, illustrated with a historic Photograph of a giant sequoia tree
Announcement of the talk "Exoplanets, cool stars, and their interactions " by Katja Poppenhäger on 20 January 2026 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12, illustrated with a painting of a shark, two seals and three fish
Announcement of the talk "Exploring the Universe with high-energy gamma rays using H.E.S.S." by Lars Mohrmann on 13 January 2026 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12, illustrated with a van Gogh painting of a wheat field
Announcement of the talk "The impact of stellar feedback on galaxies" by Stefanie Walch-Gassner on 16 December 2025 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12, illustrated with a late medieval drawing of a Person in a lion's den
Announcement of the talk "Jet-driven cavities around powerful galactic particle accelerators" by Rob Fender on 9 December 2025 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12, illustrated with a photo of a Roman coin
Announcement of the talk "A new perspective on giant planet formation" by Ravit Helled on 2 December 2025 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12, illustrated with a black and white drawing Portrait of a woman with a cap
Announcement of the talk "Nucleosynthesis evidences of extremely massive stars in proto-globular clusters-like conditions from high redshift to the local universe" by Corinne Charbonnel on 25 November 2025 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12, illustrated with a drawing of a couple sitting inf front of a huge rock formation
Announcement of the talk "From Data to Laws: Symbolic Regression and Differentiable Analytic Networks for (Astro)physics" by Rodrigo Ibata on 18 November 2025 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12, illustrated with an expressionistic painting showing fishermen hauling their nets into a small boat on the sea.
Announcement of the talk "Origin of supermassive black holes from dense star clusters: Implications for the Local Universe and for JWST" by Dominik Schleicher on 11 November 2025 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12, with an image of a gift wrapping paper compass rose
Announcement of the talk "Weighing the Universe with the Lightest Elements" by Max Pettini on 4 November 2025 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12, with a photograph of a historic brass scale
Announcement of the talk "What is interstellar dust? What we've learned from Gaia" by Gregory Green on 28 October 2025 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12, with a series of historic black and white photographs shwoing a woman sweeping the floor
Announcement of the talk "Gobblin' mode: how to form stars, planets and black holes quickly" by Daniel Price on 21 October 2025 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12, with a drawing of two birds eating berries
Bild aus dem Simulationskatalog des Euclid-Flagship-Projekts. Jeder Punkt steht für eine Galaxie: Blaue Punkte markieren Galaxien im Zentrum von Dunkler-Materie-Klumpen, während rote Punkte Satelliten innerhalb dieser Klumpen bezeichnen. Zusammen bilden sie die großräumige Massenverteilung des Universums und bilden Klumpen, Filamente und Hohlräume. Bildnachweis: Jorge Carretero & Pau Tallada (Port d’Informació Científica / Euclid Consortium). Bild bearbeitet mit der Software Splotch.
Image extracted from the Euclid Flagship simulations catalogue. Each dot represents a galaxy: blue points mark galaxies at the centers of dark matter clumps, while red points denote satellites within them. Collectively, they trace the large-scale mass distribution of the Universe, forming clumps, filaments, and voids. Credits: Jorge Carretero & Pau Tallada (Port d’Informació Científica / Euclid Consortium). Image processed with the software Splotch.
Vier Personen posieren neben einer großen Stellwand mit einem Bild des Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), dem im Bau befindlichen Riesenteleskop der Europäischen Südsternwarte ESO. Die Stellwand zeigt den Kuppelbau des ELT auf dem Cerro Armazones in Chile bei Nacht. Aus der Kuppel schießen vier helle gelb-orange Laserstrahlen in den Sternenhimmel, die das adaptive Optiksystem symbolisieren. Links der Stellwand stehen zwei Personen, rechts ebenfalls zwei. Alle lächeln in die Kamera. Die Menschen tragen Freizeitkleidung in Blau, Rot, Schwarz und Weiß. Oben links auf der Stellwand ist das Logo der ESO mit dem Schriftzug „ELT“ zu sehen. Unten rechts stehen die Logos der beteiligten Partnerinstitute, darunter das Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik (MPE). Im Hintergrund erkennt man den Eingangsbereich des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung mit Glasfronten, Paletten und weiterem Messematerial. Das Foto zeigt den Aufbau des Informationsstands von MPIA und MPE zum ELT beim Tag der offenen Tür der Bundesregierung.
Ein fertiger Informationsstand zum Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) im Eingangsbereich des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung. Der Stand präsentiert sich mit mehreren Elementen: Im Vordergrund ein Tisch mit ausliegenden Informationsmaterialien, darunter Flyer und Bildkarten astronomischer Motive. Auf dem Tisch steht eine große durchsichtige Vitrine mit einem maßstabsgetreuen Modell des ELT. Dahinter hängen Stellwände mit einem nächtlichen Bild des Teleskops und leuchtenden Laserstrahlen. Zwei große Bildschirme links und rechts des Modells zeigen Animationen und Fotos des ELT. Auf der rechten Seite des Stands steht ein Glücksrad mit einem astronomischen Design, daneben ein Barhocker sowie eine VR-Brille, die Besucherinnen und Besucher ausprobieren können. Links steht eine Infotafel mit der Überschrift „Raumfahrt“ und dem Hinweis „Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) – das weltweit größte Auge im Himmel“. Das Logo der ESO ist ebenfalls sichtbar. Der Stand wird von Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeitern des Max-Planck-Instituts für Astronomie (MPIA) und des Max-Planck-Instituts für extraterrestrische Physik (MPE) betreut. Er ist Teil des Programms zum Tag der offenen Tür der Bundesregierung, bei dem Forschungseinrichtungen ihre Projekte vorstellen.
Announcement of the talk "Tracing out the darkness with cold gas: dynamically probing galaxy evolution and black holes" by Timothy Davis on 22 July 2025 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12 and online via Zoom, with a grayscale image of a rough surface
Announcement of the talk "From mass transfer to stripped stars" by Pablo Marchant on 15 July 2025 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12 and online via Zoom, with a pixelated view of a colorful pinwheel
Announcement of the talk "Compact star mergers, kilonovae and r-process element production" by Stephen Smartt on 8 July 2025 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12 and online via Zoom, with an artistic black-and-white drawing of an explosion of a spherical object with a pebble-like interior
Announcement of the talk "Unlocking the various evolutionary pathways of sun-like stars" by Nicole Reindl on 1 July 2025 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12 and online via Zoom, with an image of some turbulent motions in a sphere in light blue
Announcement of the talk "De-mystifying galactic outflows driven by supermassive black holes" by Chris Harrison on 24 June 2025 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12 and online via Zoom, with a church ceiling with a star-like pattern
Announcement of the talk "The magnetic history of the Universe " by Jennifer Schober on 17 June 2025 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12 and online via Zoom, with a cubistic colour scheme
Announcement of the talk "A new view of the red and distant Universe from JWST/NIRSpec" by Anna de Graaff on 10 June 2025 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12 and online via Zoom, with an expressionistic colourful spiral
Announcement of the talk "The atmospheres of discs and planets" by Barbara Ercolano on 3 June 2025 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12 and online via Zoom, with an AI-generated comic-style drawing of sthe solar system
Announcement of the talk "Origins of Stars, Planets, and Life: Early Science with JWST" by Michael Meyer on 27 May 2025 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12 and online via Zoom, with an AI-generated comic-style drawing of several stars and planets in the sky
Announcement of the talk "Galaxy formation at cosmic dawn" by Romain Teyssier on 20 May 2025 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12 and online via Zoom, with an AI-generated expressionistic image resembling a sunrise
Announcement of the talk "The tumultuous life of early galaxies: bursty star formation and the build-up of disks" by Sandro Tacchella on 13 May 2025 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12 and online via Zoom, with an AI-generated composite of comic-style spiral galaxies
Announcement of the talk "New Tricks for the Analysis of Stellar Spectra" by Carlos Allende Prieto on 6 May 2025 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12 and online via Zoom, with an AI-generated comic of a beam coming from a sun-like yellow star, with other stars and the Milky Way in the background
Banner for the talk "The build-up of galactic nuclei: how do black holes get there?" by Nadine Neumayer from MPIA illustrated with an AI-generated spiral galaxy
Cover of MPIA's annual report 2023
Announcement of the talk "From cosmic web to molecular clouds: the multiple scales of galaxy evolution" by Amelie Saintonge on 4 February 2025 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12 and online via Zoom, with a view of the large-scale structure of the Universe and a zoom onto one galaxy
Announcement of the talk "Planet Migration in Dusty Protoplanetary Disks" by Martin Pessah on 28 January 2025 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12 and online via Zoom, with an face-on view of a simulation of a planet-forming disk
Announcement of the talk "Massive star evolution: Progresses and challenges" by Sylvia Ekström on 21 January 2025 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12 and online via Zoom, with an image of a cluster of blue stars in a nebulous environment
Announcement of the talk "The Universe in multi-color: Astronomy at the dawn of intensity mapping and AI" by Caroline Heneka on 14 January 2025 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12 and online via Zoom, with a fals-color Lyman alpha intensity map simulation
Announcement of the talk "The origin of interstellar dust: from local supernovae to the high-redshift Universe" by Ilse De Looze on 7 January 2025 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12 and online via Zoom, with a false color image of the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A
Grünes Notausgangschild mit Männchen mit Doktorhut, dazu eXit-Schriftzug mit Twitter-X
Announcement of the talk "The beating hearts of galaxies: supermassive black hole feedback probed by X-ray spectroscopy" by Aurora Simionescu on 17 December 2024 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12 and online via Zoom, with a collage of a violet nebulosity and a drink in a glass
Announcement of the talk "Cosmic rays in the interstellar medium and their dynamical impact on galaxy evolution" by Philipp Girichidis on 10 December 2024 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12 and online via Zoom, with a two-fold false-color image of interstellar matter density
Announcement of the talk "Hacking the Universe: Leveraging Data Science in High-Energy Astrophysics and Beyond" by Daniela Huppenkothen on 3 December 2024 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12 and online via Zoom, with an AI-generated image of matter around a black hole, a laptop and X-ray spectra
Announcement of the talk "Chemical Enrichments in the Milky Way and Its Accreted Dwarf Galaxies" by Tadafumi Matsuno on 26 November 2024 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12 and online via Zoom, with an image of the Milky Way above telescope domes and two spectra
Announcement of the talk "The JASMIN mission" by Daisuke Kawato on 19 November 2024 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12 and online via Zoom, with an artists impression of a satellite above a storm on Earth, the Milky Way in the background
Eine Gruppe von Menschen nimmt an einer Spatenstichzeremonie im Freien teil. Im Hintergrund steht eine Gruppe von Menschen unterschiedlicher Herkunft, die lächelnd dem Ereignis zuschaut, während sechs Personen vorne mit orangefarbenen Bauhelmen und Schaufeln ausgestattet sind. Sie graben aktiv in einem Sandhaufen, was den Beginn eines Bauprojekts symbolisiert. Die Szenerie spielt auf einer Rasenfläche in der Nähe eines modernen Gebäudes, mit einem hohen immergrünen Baum, der auf der rechten Seite zu sehen ist. Die Atmosphäre wirkt feierlich und gemeinschaftlich und zeigt Engagement und Teamarbeit in der Gemeinschaft.
Group of people participating in a groundbreaking ceremony outdoors. A diverse crowd stands in the background, smiling and watching the event, while six individuals at the front are equipped with orange construction helmets and shovels. They are actively digging into a pile of sand, symbolizing the start of a construction project. The setting is a grassy area near a modern building, with a tall evergreen tree visible to the right. The atmosphere appears celebratory and collaborative, showcasing community engagement and teamwork.
Announcement of the talk "StarDance: the non-canonical evolution of stars in clusters" by Elena Pancino on 12 November 2024 at 16:30 CEST at Philosophenweg 12 and online via Zoom, with an artists Impression of a binary star system with mass transfer