12 August 2020
Distant Milky Way look-alike is a breakthrough in the field of galaxy formation
...a team headed by Francesca Rizzo, PhD student from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Germany, found that SPT0418-4 is devoid ... adds co-author Simona Vegetti, also from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics. “The big surprise was to find...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
... North has now shifted down to Siberia and continues to head South. Modelling carried out by the Max Planck Institute in Germany in 2015 suggests that during this shift the shielding provided by the Van Allen belts...
March 2017
Planetary nebulae may hold clue in search of helium-3
... star is 1.3 parsecs), the halo diameter is massive to say the least. The 100-m radio telescope of the Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie (MPIfR) is located in a protected valley near Bad Münstereifel-Effelsberg, Germany. It is one of the two...
March 2018
Plumes on Europa - tasting an extra-terrestrial ocean
... to the 400 km for JUICE. About the author Hans Huybrighs is a PhD student in space physics at the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, The Swedish Institute of Space Physics and the Technical University of Braunschweig...
September 2018
Debris or not debris - is that the question?
... para. 273. 2 M Schladebach, “Space Debris as a Legal Challenge” in A von Bogdandy, A Peters and R Wolfrum (Eds.), Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law, Vol. 17 (Koninklijke Brill, 2013), 76. 3 Joint Dissenting Opinion of Judges Al-Khasawneh and...
April 2019
LISA Pathfinder – paving the way for future studies of the gravitational universe
... for the ground segment and mission operations of ESA’s astronomy and fundamental physics missions including Herschel & Planck, Gaia, Lisa Pathfinder, Euclid and Plato.
