March 19, 2013
The ALMA telescope installation begins delivering images of fresh planets, young stars, and distant galaxies. [more]
May 10, 2012
Max Planck scientists use sophisticated monitoring methods and computer simulations to examine the sun’s corona [more]
May 09, 2012
The new, Tenerife-based GREGOR telescope is designed to observe the sun with an unprecedented precision [more]
November 23, 2011
Interview with Prof. Dr. Siegfried Bethke, Director at the Max Planck Institute of Physics in Munich, about the current research results from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) [more]
November 03, 2011
Pulsars are fascinating celestial bodies with an interesting history [more]
September 20, 2011
On 17 September 2011 Sofia, the airborne observatory, flew from Palmdale, California to Cologne, Germany. Author Alexander Stirn was on board. This is his log. [more]
September 19, 2011
Airborne observatory Sofia provides astronomers with a new window into space [more]