René Heller
@drreneheller.bsky.social
Team Lead Research & Development, PLATO Mission of ESA 🚀, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research | Lecturer for astrophysics, University of Göttingen
4 days left for abstract submission to "Observation and Characterization of Extrasolar Planets" at the 2025 AG Annual Meeting in Görlitz (16-17 Sep 2025).
Abstract submission:
ag2025.astronomische-gesellschaft.de/abstracts.php.
Session details:
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Abstract submission:
ag2025.astronomische-gesellschaft.de/abstracts.php.
Session details:
ag2025.astronomische-gesellschaft.de/view_splinte...
July 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM
4 days left for abstract submission to "Observation and Characterization of Extrasolar Planets" at the 2025 AG Annual Meeting in Görlitz (16-17 Sep 2025).
Abstract submission:
ag2025.astronomische-gesellschaft.de/abstracts.php.
Session details:
ag2025.astronomische-gesellschaft.de/view_splinte...
Abstract submission:
ag2025.astronomische-gesellschaft.de/abstracts.php.
Session details:
ag2025.astronomische-gesellschaft.de/view_splinte...
New fascinating images of Saturn‘s clouded moon Titan! The picture on the left shows an overlay of three infrared exposures of Titan in different wavelengths.
The photos were taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, a space mission of NASA, ESA, and CSA.
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
The photos were taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, a space mission of NASA, ESA, and CSA.
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
June 7, 2025 at 9:16 AM
New fascinating images of Saturn‘s clouded moon Titan! The picture on the left shows an overlay of three infrared exposures of Titan in different wavelengths.
The photos were taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, a space mission of NASA, ESA, and CSA.
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
The photos were taken by the James Webb Space Telescope, a space mission of NASA, ESA, and CSA.
www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
Just a normal day working for a European space mission.
May 20, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Just a normal day working for a European space mission.
The Service Module of the #PLATO spacecraft arrived at the OHB space technology company in Oberpfaffenhofen (Germany). Also, 18 out of 26 PLATO cameras have now been installed on the Payload Module. 🚀
Image Credit: OHB
Image Credit: OHB
February 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The Service Module of the #PLATO spacecraft arrived at the OHB space technology company in Oberpfaffenhofen (Germany). Also, 18 out of 26 PLATO cameras have now been installed on the Payload Module. 🚀
Image Credit: OHB
Image Credit: OHB
„Toxicologist Matthew Campen […] estimates that he can isolate about 10 grams of plastics from a donated human brain; that’s about the weight of an unused crayon.“
nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00405-8
Trump signs order shifting US back toward plastic straws.
bbc.com/news/articles/c2k574ydyyqo.amp
nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00405-8
Trump signs order shifting US back toward plastic straws.
bbc.com/news/articles/c2k574ydyyqo.amp
February 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
„Toxicologist Matthew Campen […] estimates that he can isolate about 10 grams of plastics from a donated human brain; that’s about the weight of an unused crayon.“
nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00405-8
Trump signs order shifting US back toward plastic straws.
bbc.com/news/articles/c2k574ydyyqo.amp
nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00405-8
Trump signs order shifting US back toward plastic straws.
bbc.com/news/articles/c2k574ydyyqo.amp
I know the situation is bad, but I keep forgetting just HOW bad the gender imbalance among laureates of the Nobel Prize is. Physics is particularly terrible... [says a physicist]
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
February 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I know the situation is bad, but I keep forgetting just HOW bad the gender imbalance among laureates of the Nobel Prize is. Physics is particularly terrible... [says a physicist]
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This week’s Cambridge meeting of ESA‘s (@esa.int) Science Operations Center & the #PLATO Mission Consortium. Less than 2 years before launch, we’re nearing the Mission Critical Design Review. Also, I found a transcript of Tycho Brahe’s 1570s observations in the @cambridgeastro.bsky.social library.
February 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
This week’s Cambridge meeting of ESA‘s (@esa.int) Science Operations Center & the #PLATO Mission Consortium. Less than 2 years before launch, we’re nearing the Mission Critical Design Review. Also, I found a transcript of Tycho Brahe’s 1570s observations in the @cambridgeastro.bsky.social library.
Excited that we will fly on an Ariane 6! The data coming back from PLATO to Earth will ultimately be stored at our Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and then be made available to the PLATO Mission Consortium. @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social
January 30, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Excited that we will fly on an Ariane 6! The data coming back from PLATO to Earth will ultimately be stored at our Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research and then be made available to the PLATO Mission Consortium. @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social
ESA and Arianespace signed a contract to launch our PLATO spacecraft on an Ariane 6 in late 2026 (esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Plato/Planet_hunter_Plato_to_fly_on_Ariane_6). Here's the Ariane 6 maiden flight in 2024 as seen from inside a Rafale military jet: youtu.be/3w48YAOWNYY&t=137.
January 30, 2025 at 9:28 AM
ESA and Arianespace signed a contract to launch our PLATO spacecraft on an Ariane 6 in late 2026 (esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Plato/Planet_hunter_Plato_to_fly_on_Ariane_6). Here's the Ariane 6 maiden flight in 2024 as seen from inside a Rafale military jet: youtu.be/3w48YAOWNYY&t=137.