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Excellent Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics across wavelengths from (sub-)millimeter and infared all the way to X-ray and gamma-ray. Posts by Press Office.
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🤗👋Hello #BlueSky! We are the #MPE, belong to the Max Planck Society @maxplanck.de and interested in #astrophysics, #cosmology, #BlackHoles, #astrochemistry, #universe & much more..🪐🌟🛰️🔭📡⚗️
Follow us to get updates about research news, projects, people or career opportunities!
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📣 Job Opportunity 📣
Project Scientist | Wide Field Imager Instrument for NewAthena X-ray Observatory.

The @mpe-garching.bsky.social (MPE) is looking for a Project Scientist for Wide Field Imager Instrument for NewAthena X-ray Observatory .

More info 👇:

www.mpe.mpg.de/8103082/job_...
October 30, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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First Light for 4MOST!

The 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope (4MOST) has captured its very first spectra!

Video Credit: AIP/R. de Jong, AIP/K. Riebe, AIP/A. Saviauk, CRAL/J.-K. Krogager
First Light for 4MOST!
YouTube video by 4-meter Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope
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October 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🤩The @4most-eu.bsky.social (#4MOST) facility on @eso.org VISTA telescope in Chile achieved first light.
#MPE scientists played a leading role in developing the Operations System, enabling to link #eROSITA’s X-ray universe with large-scale structure of galaxies.
➡️ More: www.mpe.mpg.de/8102833/news...
4MOST Begins its Journey of Cosmic Discovery
4MOST embarks on a cosmic journey, capturing spectra of thousands of celestial objects simultaneously, unlocking secrets of the universe.
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October 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
🏃🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️Fast, faster, #MPE! With two teams, a group of MPE scientists participated in the #MunichMarathon 2025. On the left team "eRunita" - a neologism of "run" and #eROSITA -, and on the right the "WFI DEPFET Fliers", named after the #NewAthena #WFI.
Great Performance, guys! 👏🥇
October 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM
“I’m proud of my team – our work is read all around the world.”
Huge congratulations to Ewine van Dishoeck! Named Citation Laureate 2025 by Clarivate for groundbreaking astrochemistry research. Her discoveries reshape how we understand the birth of stars & planets.
Emeritus-hoogleraar moleculaire astrofysica Ewine van Dishoeck is benoemd tot Citation Laureate door Clarivate, een bedrijf dat onderzoeksdata analyseert. Daarmee beschouwt Clarivate haar als invloedrijke wetenschapper met het kaliber om een Nobelprijs te winnen.
Hoogleraar Ewine van Dishoeck benoemd tot Citation Laureate
Emeritus-hoogleraar moleculaire astrofysica Ewine van Dishoeck is benoemd tot Citation Laureate door Clarivate, een bedrijf dat onderzoeksdata analyseert. Daarmee beschouwt Clarivate haar als invloedr...
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September 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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1/ Alles bereit für den Tag der offenen Tür 🚪 #TdoT25 der #Bundesregierung im #BMFTR am 23. und 24. August. Im Auftrag der @eso.org präsentieren #MPIA und @mpe-garching.bsky.social der @maxplanck.de das Extremely Large Telescope #ELT 🔭. #Astronomie #Weltraum #ESO 🌌
August 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
We're excited to welcome you soon at #MPE, @suchitra.bsky.social! 🤗
My advisor, Karin Öberg, says you’re ready to graduate once you start dressing like your advisor. It’s therefore fitting that yesterday we matched (unplanned) during my dissertation talk :)

Excited to share I defended my PhD & will be going to @mpe-garching.bsky.social to work with Paola Caselli!
August 14, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Double Congratulations for @mpe-garching.bsky.social #MPE! The German Astronomical Society (AG) honors two of our researchers with prestigious awards:

Prof. Dr. Paola Caselli receives the Karl Schwarzschild Medal and Dr. Frank Grupp is honored with the Instrument Development Award. (1/3)
August 14, 2025 at 8:03 AM
🤯Major milestone for #MICADO!
The 5-ton cryostat - core of the 6m camera - arrived at #MPE. It keeps optics & detectors at ~82 K 🥶 to enable precise infrared observations for @eso.org Extremely Large Telescope #ELT.

More about MICADO: lnkd.in/e5qVq6tY
Video: Federico Biondi/MPE.
July 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Impressions from the #b2run 2025. A total of ~ 300 runners from all Munich #MaxPlanck Institutes and
@maxplanck.de
participated, 40 of them from #MPE alone! 💪
One "Extraterrestrial"👽finished in 35th place - out of 30.000 runners!

#b2runmünchen #gemeinsamfit

Photos: Felix Dickfeld/MPE; Jan Greune
July 18, 2025 at 12:50 PM
🥳 Congratulations to @terevaldivia.bsky.social, who has been awarded both the prestigious #OttoHahnMedal and the #OttoHahnAward by @maxplanck.de for her outstanding dissertation!

In this Interview she talks about her research, the award ceremony and her future work:
www.mpe.mpg.de/8076532/news...
Honoured twice
Teresa Valdivia-Mena receives the Otto Hahn Medal and Otto Hahn Award for her dissertation on streamers in protoplanetary disks.
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June 30, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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“The Vera Rubin Telescope will be transformational for my research in #cosmology," says Esra Bulbul, astronomer
@mpe-garching.bsky.social. "With its wide field of view and depth, it will observe billions of #galaxies across vast distances.” www.mpg.de/24900555/ver... @vrubinobs.bsky.social
June 24, 2025 at 5:49 AM
Germany’s new Federal Minister for Research, Technology, and Space, @dorobaer.bsky.social visited #MPE. She talked to MPE directors Reinhard Genzel, Kirpal Nandra and Frank Eisenhauer and visited #MICADO, a pioneering instrument for the upcoming #ELT being currently built in Chile by @eso.org.
June 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
#MPE & Kavli Institute for #Astronomy & #Astrophysics (KIAA) at Beijing University are happy to announce the launch of a new @maxplanck.de Max Planck partner group. The collaboration will be led by Dr. Jinyi Shangguan, researcher at KIAA and former postdoc at MPE.

➡️ www.mpe.mpg.de/8059933/news...
April 1, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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A catalogue of more than 380,000 #galaxies: the first comprehensive data release of the #Euclid space telescope provides insights into the depths of the #universe - thanks in part to strong German participation! www.mpg.de/24349746/euc... @mpi-astro.bsky.social @mpe-garching.bsky.social @esa.int
March 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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It's #Euclid data release day!

@esa.int and the Euclid Consortium are making 63 deg² of Wide Survey data available to the world. Imaging and spectroscopy data, catalogues and masks for 20+ million galaxies, quasars, stars and substellar objects.

#astronomy #science #space

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March 19, 2025 at 11:02 AM
The first data from @esa.int @ec-euclid.bsky.social #Euclid mission is here - with stunning insights! It's a major step forward to understand #DarkMatter and #DarkEnergy — and yet only the beginning of an adventure - where #MPE is right in the middle of it!
Read more: www.mpe.mpg.de/8059041/news...
Euclid opens a treasure trove of data: MPE plays a crucial role in exploring the dark universe
The first Euclid data (Q1) released by ESA provide impressive insights into the depths of the Universe. High-resolution images of 26 million galaxies reveal the finest structures and allow scientists ...
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March 19, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Science meets Diplomacy: Federal President Steinmeier & #MPE Director Reinhard Genzel call for relocating a planned industrial plant that threatens observations at @eso.org Paranal Observatory. With #Gravity+ & #MICADO, MPE is heavily involved in this research there.
www.mpe.mpg.de/8055297/news...
March 7, 2025 at 12:55 PM
A rare celestial duo! Using Widefield X-ray Telescope WXT of #EinsteinProbe, an international team, including #MPE scientists Chandreyee Maitra & Haonan Yang detected an X-ray outburst from a rare Be star–white dwarf system in the Small #MagellanicCloud.
➡️https://www.mpe.mpg.de/8054370/news20250228
Einstein Probe Uncovers Rare X-ray Binary System
Einstein Probe captures a rare X-ray outburst from a binary system, revealing new insights into massive star evolution.
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February 27, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Important milestone for #MICADO, first-light instrument of @eso.org #ELT! The De-rotator was mounted onto the support structure. The next big step will then be installing the cryostat.

Learn more about ELT's Super Camera, which is built and designed under #MPE leadership:
www.mpe.mpg.de/ir/micado
February 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM
😱A Giant in the Cosmos! #MPE & #MPP Scientists have discovered the largest ever measured #superstructure in the nearby #universe, spanning 1.4 billion #lightyears! Made mostly of #DarkMatter, this cosmic giant reshapes our understanding of large-scale structures.
➡️ www.mpe.mpg.de/8053119/news...
New discovery in the sky: Largest superstructure in the nearby universe unveiled
A groundbreaking discovery reveals a colossal superstructure, Quipu, in the universe, crucial for cosmological research and understanding dark matter.
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February 19, 2025 at 10:21 AM
As part of an #Erasmus program, students from schools in Ochsenhausen (🇩🇪), Maastricht (🇳🇱), Hlucin (🇨🇿), Moncalieri (🇮🇹) and Montarnaud (🇫🇷) visited #MPE last week. They learned a lot about the search for #exoplanets and built their own #spectrograph with 3D-printed parts.
It was great having you! 🤗🤩
January 29, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Last week, 70 participants from various institutions of #Euclid Consortium @ec-euclid.bsky.social met at #MPE. They discussed the general status of the mission & first galaxy clustering measurements.
The meeting's outcome will be crucial for preparing the first data release, expected for late 2026.
January 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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🤯 #EinsteinProbe detected X-ray signals of a puzzling cosmic blast, making us rethink our current ideas of how gamma-ray bursts explode 💥 🔭

The mission is a collaboration led by the Chinese Academy of Sciences with ESA, @mpe-garching.bsky.social and @cnes.bsky.social.
Einstein Probe detects puzzling cosmic explosion
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January 23, 2025 at 10:41 AM
🤯Just 3 months into its mission, #EinsteinProbe, a project by Chinese Academy of Sciences, #MPE, @esa.int & @cnes.bsky.social has detected a puzzling #XRay explosion from 12.5 billion light-years away, dating back to when the Universe was just 10% of its current age.
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Einstein Probe detects puzzling cosmic explosion
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January 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM