Exploring the Diversity of Extrasolar Planets

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…

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…

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…

Many thanks to our member Ruth Titz-Weider for her contribution to this great event!

Saturday the 22nd June, countless research institutes all over Berlin will open their doors to the public.

At the Aeronautics Exhibition in Berlin, members of the SPP 1992 brought exoplanet research to a big audience.

Many thanks to all participants, tutors and organisers of the 5-day workshop in Kiel!

Planets, astronomy, science & its public perception – these are all subjects in a new Berlin new stage play „Exoplanets“. The play accompanies four characters…

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.

The SPP 1992 invites you to the last school in its funding period!

Our SPP 1992 member Dr Ruth Titz-Weider will give a talk on Monday, 11.03.2024, at 19:00.

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…

Our SPP 1992 scientist Yiannis Tsapras attended this conference.

The SPP 1992 invites you to the last school in its funding period!

The EAI contributes significantly to the networking of those interested in this field with various events relating to education in the field of astrobiology.

The meeting will take place from 20 to 22 March in the Harnack-Haus.

Topic of the talk: “New worlds around distant stars – the search for the 2nd Earth”

On 15 December 2023, the SPP 1992 celebrated the finalisation of the exoplanet show by the Planetarium 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…

Can extreme exoplanets also be habitable?

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…

Six planets in resonance in Berenice’s hair

When: 01.12.2023 16:00 to 02.12.2023 18:00
Where: Schul- und Volkssternwarte Suhl

SPP 1992 outreach coordinator Ludwig Scheibe will hold a talk on the search for exoplanets at the Sonneberg community center “Wolke 14”.

A nationwide teacher training course took place at the Haus der Astronomie from 9 to 11 November 2023

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…

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.

Our SPP 1992 member Ruth Titz-Weider will give a talk on “PLATO-a new look at exoplanets” on Saturday 11 Nov 2023.

For the prediction, discovery, and modeling of dust traps in young circumstellar disks, solving a long-standing problem in planet formation.

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.

Applications are due Thursday, October 12th, 2023 at 6 PM Pacific

From 25th to 27th September, the 11th Joint Workshop on High-Pressure, Planetary and Plasma Physics (HP4) is taking place in Rostock.

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…

Further evidence of a vast ocean and even the possible trace of a substance produced only by organisms on Earth was found.

Tanja Schumann presented the two posters of the SPP 1992 in Nördlingen

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”

11^th to 15^th September

Bielefeld 6 – 10 September 2023
Jahnplatz, 33602 Bielefeld

Our SPP 1992 member Ruth Titz-Weider gave a talk about “The wonderful world of exoplanets”.

Until now, Venus was considered the strongest “mirror” in space. But a newly discovered exoplanet clearly tops it even more.

Our artist Patricia Klein has prepared for the SPP 1992 a new poster to illustrate its various scientific contributions.

Premiere on 27 October 2023 in Hamburg

Oldenburg 23 – 27 August 2023
Schlossplatz, 26122 Oldenburg

For the 25th time, the Space Camp took place in Berlin.

Dortmund 16 – 20 August 2023
Park der Partnerstädte, Schmiedingstraße 27, 44137 Dortmund

Discovery of two additional low-mass planets at 11.5 and 34 days.

Bonn 9 – 13 August 2023
Hofgartenwiese, Hofgarten, 53113 Bonn

Many thanks to all participants, tutors and organisers of the 5-day workshop in Rauenberg!

Prof. Dr. M.B.N. (Thijs) Kouwenhoven uses the Visitor Program of the SPP 1992 for a stay in Germany from August 4-25, 2023.

Our artist Patricia Klein has prepared for the SPP 1992 new illustrations of various exoplanets.

Online workshop by Artie Hatzes
2. November (morning and afternoon) to 3. November 2023

Impressions from the Raodshow Heidelberg, which took place from 19 to 23 July.

The SPP 1992 offers funding for a visitor program, where either you host external researchers visiting your group, or you yourselves visit another institution for some time.

Splinter Meeting Exoplanets – Exploring the diversity of extrasolar planets

Heidelberg 19 – 23 July 2023
Universitätsplatz, 69117 Heidelberg
Some of our SPP 1992 members will be on site to give lectures, present our poster and answer questions.

Our SPP 1992 member Ludwig Scheibe will give a talk on “New worlds around distant stars – The exploration of extrasolar planets” on 11 July at 16:30.
Location: Hörsaal 1, Max-Wien-Platz 1, 07743 Jena

Munich 05 – 09 July 2023
Platz am Bavariapark
Our SPP 1992 member Alexandre Emsenhuber will be there to present our poster.

SPP-coordination team member Ruth Titz-Weider organized a teacher training course in Berlin.

Our goal is to increase outreach and highlight our many contributions to the exoplanet science field.

There will be exciting talks by SPP members and the presentation of our poster.

There were over 1000 guests – only in 2001 there were more participants!

SPP 1992 has created a great little selection of merch accessories.

Jan-Vincent Harre reports how he enjoyed his trip to Japan.

Wednesday, 07.06.2023 – Sunday, 11.06.2023
Albaniplatz, 37073 Göttingen
Fellow SPP members will be on site.

We are very grateful for the amazing poster by Patricia Klein

Splinter Meeting Exoplanets
Exploring the diversity of extrasolar planets
Berlin, September 11-15, 2023

Jena May 31 – June 04, 2023
Theatervorplatz, Schillergäßchen
Fellow SPP and SPP Coordination Office members will be on site to present a poster.

From Wednesday, 17th May, to Sunday, 21st May, the Roadshow „Universe on Tour“, part of the 2023 Science Year „Our Universe“, had its second tour stop at the Luisenplatz in Potsdam.

Potsdam May 17 – 21, 2023
Luisenplatz am Brandenburger Tor
Fellow SPP and SPP Coordination Office members will be on site to present a poster.

The Kinderuni has existed in Weil der Stadt since 2006. It aims to make an offer to curious children who do not live in a university town and to provide them with intellectual input that cannot be dealt with in normal school lessons.

On 5/15/2023 from 2pm to 3pm via virtual zoom-meeting.

Job offer at MPIA to work on the software development for 4MOST and PLATO.
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg.

The SPP 1992, in cooperation with Dr Björn Voss of the Planetarium Hamburg and the Society of German-Speaking Planetariums, is in the process of developing…

From 14th to 16th March, we held our annual All-hands-on-deck meeting, this time at the LMU in Munich. Around 50 researchers met in person, with…

Various Talks were given at the SPP 1992 conference, March 14-16, 2023, and the recordings of these can now be found here.

8. Mai 2023 — 12. Mai 2023
La Palma, España

What is the SPP 1992 visitor program about? The idea is to invite visitors to stay longer at one or two institutes participating in the…

Hands-on Numerical Astrophysics School for Planet Formation Sciences
July 31- August 4, 2023
Hotel Winzerhof, Rauenberg

EXOWORLD is a DLR-led project coordinated by (fellow) SPP scientist Kristine Lam and supported by the European Union under the Horizon Europe Programme Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Staff Exchanges which commenced in February 2023.

The next meetings are set:
Trahütten, Austria, 2023 April 21-24
TBC, Hungary, 2023 August 15-19

With this flyer the SPP 1992 wants to show its contributions and versatile achievements, draw attention to upcoming conferences, workshops and various outreach activities.

The Special Session topic will be: “Towards the next generation exoplanet detection and characterisation: implication for exoplanet models and demographics”.

Rachel Street from the Las Cumbres Observatory will talk about “Rubin survey strategy & optimization for Galactic Science”.