27 March 2019
Storm-plagued exoplanet revealed in detail with GRAVITY
... chemistry,” explains team leader Sylvestre Lacour researcher CNRS at the Observatoire de Paris - PSL and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics. “We can best explain this surprising result with high vertical winds within...
10 April 2019
Ring of fire around black hole revealed for first time
... Telescope 7. Petabytes of raw data from the telescopes were combined by highly specialised supercomputers hosted by the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and MIT Haystack Observatory. “We are giving humanity its first view of a black...
02 August 2019
Newly found exoplanet may be suitable for life
... to warm the planet and allow liquid water on its surface,” said co-author Diana Kossakowski at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany. Wasting no time in determining just what type of conditions GJ 357 d might succumb...
31 January 2020
Einsteins prediction of 'draggable' space-time confirmed by stellar binary system
... its massive white dwarf companion, lead author of the current study, Dr Vivek Venkatraman Krishnan (from Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy - MPIfR) began unraveling the relativistic effects at play in this cosmic cavort as part...
17 July 2020
Solar Orbiter spots country-sized ‘campfires’ on the Sun
... 11-year solar cycle when the Sun is very quiet,” says Sami Solanki, the director of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research in Göttingen, Germany, and PHI Principal Investigator. “But because Solar Orbiter...
05 October 2020
A dozen "superhabitable" planets better than Earth identified in new study
... Earth then, you might ask. Armed with a list of criteria, Schulze-Makuch, Rene Heller of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and Edward Guinan of Villanova University started their search with planet...
