Exploring the Diversity of Extrasolar Planets

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”.

The roadshow “Universe on Tour” will stop at 15 locations throughout Germany in 2023.

In early 2023, ESA’s Cheops (CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite) will observe two exoplanet targets, KELT-3b and TOI-560c. By joining a Hack an Exoplanet event, teams of secondary students will get…

What’s your name? Where are you from? My name is Giulia Roccetti and I come from Rome, Italy. I grew up in the sunny Ostia,…

Could there be life somewhere out there in the universe? This question inspires science fiction authors as much as modern science. Exoplanets are in particular…

The early deadline will be on February 21.

The open day at the Thuringian State Observatory Tautenburg will take place on Sunday, June 11, 2023, celebrating its 800th anniversary.On this day the observatory…

It will take place from April 17 to April 18 2023 at the Institute of Planetary Research, DLR, Berlin-Adlershof.

Over 5000 extrasolar planets are known to date. But how do you find a planet, what are the challenges and how can you create a…

The UK Exoplanet Community Meeting 2023 will take place at the UCL campus in central London from Tuesday 8 to Thursday 10 August. The conference…

It will take place from 10 to 14 July 2023 at ICE in Kraków, Poland.

Our SPP 1992 board member and project PI Professor Lena Noack from the Institute of Geological Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin has been selected for…

The Science Year 2023 with the theme “Our universe” began with a kick-off event on January 25, 2023 in Berlin. The location was appropriately chosen:…

An ode to diversity in the void of light.A journey to the meaning of the dark.A film poem about one of the oldest companions of…

In the Wissenschaftsjahr 2023 of the scientific journal Unser Universum Professor Dr. Katja Poppenhäger (member of the SPP 1992) of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics…

In the Berlin Science Week in November 2022, Heike Rauer (coordinator of the SPP 1992) created a joint event at the Belgian Embassy with Michael…

Registration and abstract submission are available!

On February 5, you will find a broadcast of the talk by Stefan Gotthold, Prof. Dr. Katja Poppenhäger and Prof. Dr. Heike Rauer (our SPP 1992 coordinator) on the topic of life on other worlds on Forum Wissenswerte.

The next summer school in Alpbach, Tirol, Austria will take place from the 11th to 20th of July 2023. The topic of the school  is…

We are very much looking forward to our renewed collaboration with Patricia Klein, who also designed the cover picture here. This is an artistic representation…

Prof. Dr. Heike Rauer, coordinator of SPP 1992, and Tanja Schumann, part of the coordination office of SPP 1992, would like to thank you for…

The meeting will provide an opportunity for members of the project teams to come together and discuss the latest developments, share their research findings, and…

Gas giant planets make up about 15% of the more than 5000 extrasolar planets detected to date. To characterize them in more detail and to…

Science is exciting, science is fun! For an entire evening, institutes, laboratories, lecture halls and clinics in Jena open their doors into the night and…

The in-person Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Seminar on the topic “From the Heliosphere to Astrospheres – Lessons for Exoplanets and their Habitability” at the Physics…

Eike Guenther from the Landessternwarte Tautenburg will hold a public outreach talk on the topic of exoplanet diversity at the Zeiss-Planetarium Jena. The talk will…

From Monday, 12th September, to Wednesday, 14th September, the PFE-SPP1992 joint meeting on (Exo)Planet Diversity, Formation and Evolution took place at the FU Geocampus in…

TOI-1452 b orbits a red dwarf star 100 light-years away from the Earth in the constellation Draco. With the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic (OMM) in Canada…

Once again, the James Webb telescope is proving what incredible results it can deliver. Just a few days ago, its sensitive instruments were able to…

Research assistant (Postdoc) (m/f/d) full-time job limited to 18 months Entgeltgruppe 13 TV-L FU reference code: SPP1992-NO2022 The Senate of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German…

About the PFE-SPP 1992 joint meeting: In order to foster collaborations across fields, this PFE-SPP1992 joint meeting aims to be a platform for researchers from…

From September 5 to 8, everything at the Haus der Astronomie will revolve around the topic of exoplanets and how to implement this exciting topic…

Mars is the next big target for manned space travel. There could be traces of earlier life here, perhaps even active microorganisms in the soil.…

Dear fellow SPP folks The joint PFE-SPP1992 meeting in September is approaching, and with it a little outreach-project of the SPP: We would like to…

The Thüringer Landessternwarte (TLS) is an astronomical research institute operating the observatory of the state of Thuringia located near the university city Jena. The TLS…

The SPP 1992 Exploring the Diversity of Extrasolar Planets is a collaborative network of German researchers in the field of exoplanetary sciences. Its purpose is…

Please take note of a very interesting event that will take place in Brussels from September 28-30, 2022. To bring together researchers from these different…

Herewith we would like to announce our presence on Twitter. All news about exoplanets and the work of SPP can be found here.

The SPP 1992 Exploring the Diversity of Extrasolar Planets is a collaborative network of German researchers in the field of exoplanetary sciences. Its purpose is…

The James Webb Space Telescope, a partnership between NASA, ESA and CSA, will release its first color images and spectroscopic data on July 12, 2022.…

In his new captivating episode “Lebendige Planeten – Die Gaia-Hypothese” of the podcast Sternengeschichten, Florian Freistetter explains what the Gaia hypothesis is and what living…

With its mirror segments beautifully aligned and its scientific instruments undergoing calibration, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is just weeks away from full operation. Soon…

Teacher training: Extrasolar planets About 5000 extrasolar planets are known to date. In recent years, the discovery of a planet orbiting a star other than…

Since the mid-1990s, astronomers have found thousands of exoplanets in the Galaxy. But these “almost 5000 exoplanets” are ridiculously few in view of the fact…

The James Webb Space Telescope, a large space-based observatory, is primarily dedicated to the study of galaxies, stars and planet formation. It is optimized for…

Among them are the most diverse celestial bodies: rocky planets like Earth, gas giants many times larger than Jupiter, “hot Jupiters” orbiting very close to…

Written by A. Lecavelier des Etangs and Jack J. Lissauer. In antiquity, all of the enduring celestial bodies that were seen to move relative to…

Several of the exoplanets discovered so far have exceptionally low densities. But that could be a misconception, astronomers say. Some exoplanets with surprisingly low density…

With an Earth Similarity Index (ESI) of 0.88, Kepler 438b is the exoplanet most similar to Earth. The formula behind the ESI provides a number…

The 245 light-years distant Kepler-16b is the first binary star planet found with the radial velocity method. For a long time it was questionable whether…

The exoplanet WASP-121b is a hot Jupiter and was actually discovered in 2015 at a distance of 855 light-years and is in a tidally locked…

The SPP 1992 Exploring the Diversity of Extrasolar Planets is a collaborative network of German researchers in the field of exoplanetary sciences. Its purpose is…

A white dwarf is formed when a low-mass star, like our sun, runs out of fuel at the end of its life – it will…

Das DLR bietet auf dem spannenden Forschungsgebiet der extrasolaren Planeten zwei Masterarbeiten im Bereich der Modellierung von Exoplaneten-Atmosphären an. Mehr Informationen finden Sie hier.

The JWST launched on Dec. 25, 2021, and had reached by Jan. 24, 2022 an orbit to the Lagrange point L2 in the Earth-Sun system,…

Astronomers have announced the evidence of a third planet around the Sun’s closest neighbouring star. Proxima Centauri, is a red dwarf star that lies a…

Earth and some other planets in the solar system have complex, layered atmospheres. What the gas envelopes of extrasolar planets look like, however, is still…

Planets normally orbit stars – but now astronomers have found more than 70 of them, that roam freely through the galaxy like nomads. Presumably there…

An artist’s impression of the gas giant Kepler-1708b, its moon Kepler-1708b-i, and their parent star. Image credit: Helena Valenzuela Widerström. To understand the formation of…

Currently, there are two main methods by which exoplanets are discovered: The transit method looks for planets by examining the light from stars for brief…