Exploring the Diversity of Extrasolar Planets
News
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New Outreach Website “Exploring the Diversity of Exoplanets”
The outreach team of the SPP 1992 has worked tirelessly to create a new exoplanet outreach webpage.
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Long Night of Astronomy – in Berlin and Germany-wide
Image Credit: LNDA-Website On Saturday, 19th October, the Long Night Of Astronomy takes place all over Germany. Astronomical and Astrophysical institutions open their doors for…
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Jan-Vincent Harre successfully defends his thesis
Join us in congratulating SPP 1992 PhD student Jan-Vincent Harre, who successfully defended his thesis ‘Origins & Orbital Evolution of Hot and Warm Jupiters’ last…
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Exoplanets at a teacher training in Dillingen
From 18th to 20th September, the Lüscher Lectures took place in Dillingen on the Danube at the Akademie für Lehrerfortbildung und Personalführung (Academy for teacher…
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Teacher training course at the DLR was a great success
Many thanks to our member Ruth Titz-Weider for her contribution to this great event!
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Long Night of Science in Berlin, 22nd June
Saturday the 22nd June, countless research institutes all over Berlin will open their doors to the public.
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Exoplanets at the ILA 2024
At the Aeronautics Exhibition in Berlin, members of the SPP 1992 brought exoplanet research to a big audience.
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The SPP 1992 Spring School 2024 was a great success
Many thanks to all participants, tutors and organisers of the 5-day workshop in Kiel!
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Stage play & podium discussion “Exoplanet”
Planets, astronomy, science & its public perception – these are all subjects in a new Berlin new stage play „Exoplanets“. The play accompanies four characters…
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Teacher training at DLR on the topic of exoplanets
For all interested teachers, especially from the STEM subjects, we are offering an afternoon (3 – 6 pm) on 25 June 2024 on the topic of exoplanets and missions.
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There are still a few places available at the Spring School in Kiel from 29 April to 3 May.
The SPP 1992 invites you to the last school in its funding period!
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The marvellous world of exoplanets
Our SPP 1992 member Dr Ruth Titz-Weider will give a talk on Monday, 11.03.2024, at 19:00.
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The composition of Mercury and how it relates to exoplanets – DLR Seminar by Olivier Namur
As part of the SPP 1992 visitor program, Prof. Olivier Namur from the Catholic University Leuven, Belgium, visited the DLR in Berlin from 13th to…
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26th International Microlensing Conference held at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, CA
Our SPP 1992 scientist Yiannis Tsapras attended this conference.
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SPP 1992 Spring School 2024
The SPP 1992 invites you to the last school in its funding period!
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The European Astrobiology Institute will once again be offering workshops and summer schools this year
The EAI contributes significantly to the networking of those interested in this field with various events relating to education in the field of astrobiology.
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SPP 1992 Final Colloquium 2024
The meeting will take place from 20 to 22 March in the Harnack-Haus.
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Our SPP 1992 member Ludwig Scheibe held a lecture at “Urknall, Weltall und das Leben”
Topic of the talk: “New worlds around distant stars – the search for the 2nd Earth”
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The premiere of our exoplanet show in Hamburg was a great success
On 15 December 2023, the SPP 1992 celebrated the finalisation of the exoplanet show by the Planetarium in Hamburg.
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New Worlds – Distant Planets: A Planetarium Show in Hamburg
The day is finally here: The SPP 1992, led by coordinator Heike Rauer, has been working diligently for months with the Hamburg and Berlin planetariums…
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Exoplanets in Suhl
Can extreme exoplanets also be habitable?
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Exoplanets in Sonneberg
Among the snow-covered landscape and between fog-shrouded mountain tops around Sonneberg, on 30th November SPP 1992 outreach coordinator Ludwig Scheibe held outreach talks, introducing the…
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Resonances in the planetary system HD 110067
Six planets in resonance in Berenice’s hair
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22nd South Thuringian Astronomical Day(s) 2023
When: 01.12.2023 16:00 to 02.12.2023 18:00
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Exoplanet Talk at the Community Center “Wolke 14” in Sonneberg
SPP 1992 outreach coordinator Ludwig Scheibe will hold a talk on the search for exoplanets at the Sonneberg community center “Wolke 14”.
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy 2023
A nationwide teacher training course took place at the Haus der Astronomie from 9 to 11 November 2023
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Doctoral Defense of Philipp Baumeister
On Thursday 09th November, Philipp Baumeister, who was employed by the SPP 1992 in the first funding period, defended his PhD thesis at the TU…
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Discovery of 40 jumbo planets in the Orion Nebula
A surprising find of free-floating pairs of planets has been made with images taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. These planets are as massive as Jupiter.
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Nationwide teacher training on astronomy by the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Foundation
Our SPP 1992 member Ruth Titz-Weider will give a talk on “PLATO-a new look at exoplanets” on Saturday 11 Nov 2023.
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„New Horizons in Physics” – award for SPP 1992 member Til Birnstiel
For the prediction, discovery, and modeling of dust traps in young circumstellar disks, solving a long-standing problem in planet formation.
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Open Day 2023
On 14 October 2023, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and the Haus der Astronomie on the Königstuhl will open their doors from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. and offer a varied astronomical programme.
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Call for ExoExplorer Applications 2024 by NASA
Applications are due Thursday, October 12th, 2023 at 6 PM Pacific
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11th Joint Workshop on High Pressure, Planetary and Plasma Physics (HP4)
From 25th to 27th September, the 11th Joint Workshop on High-Pressure, Planetary and Plasma Physics (HP4) is taking place in Rostock.
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All the worlds in Berlin – Astronomical Society Annual Meeting 2023
Last week, from 11th to 15th September, astronomers and space scientists from Germany and beyond gathered in Berlin for the annual assembly of the German…
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The JWST makes an exciting discovery on the exoplanet K2-18b.
Further evidence of a vast ocean and even the possible trace of a substance produced only by organisms on Earth was found.
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Our SPP 1992 member at the EAI summer workshop
Tanja Schumann presented the two posters of the SPP 1992 in Nördlingen
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Paper Time
Our SPP scientist Jan-Vincent Harre led a publication to the topic
“The Orbit of Warm Jupiter WASP-106 b is aligned with its Star” -
Planets gathering in Berlin – Meeting of the German Astronomical Society
11th to 15th September
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Universe on tour
Bielefeld 6 – 10 September 2023
Jahnplatz, 33602 Bielefeld -
Podcast about exoplanets for the Kinderuni Weil der Stadt
Our SPP 1992 member Ruth Titz-Weider gave a talk about “The wonderful world of exoplanets”.
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Brightest planet in the universe observed
Until now, Venus was considered the strongest “mirror” in space. But a newly discovered exoplanet clearly tops it even more.
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The SPP 1992 has a new poster
Our artist Patricia Klein has prepared for the SPP 1992 a new poster to illustrate its various scientific contributions.
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Planetarium show about exoplanets with SPP 1992 participation
Premiere on 27 October 2023 in Hamburg
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Universe on Tour
Oldenburg 23 – 27 August 2023
Schlossplatz, 26122 Oldenburg -
Exoplanets: Worlds Far Away and Strange
For the 25th time, the Space Camp took place in Berlin.
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Universe on tour
Dortmund 16 – 20 August 2023
Park der Partnerstädte, Schmiedingstraße 27, 44137 Dortmund -
GJ 367 b has company
Discovery of two additional low-mass planets at 11.5 and 34 days.
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Universe on tour
Bonn 9 – 13 August 2023
Hofgartenwiese, Hofgarten, 53113 Bonn