Exploring the Diversity of Extrasolar Planets
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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
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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
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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 -
The SPP 1992 Summer School 2023 was a great success
Many thanks to all participants, tutors and organisers of the 5-day workshop in Rauenberg!
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A warm welcome to Germany, Prof. Dr. M.B.N. Kouwenhoven
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.
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New illustrations by Patricia Klein
Our artist Patricia Klein has prepared for the SPP 1992 new illustrations of various exoplanets.
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EXOWORLD Presents: A Short Course on Writing Better Research Papers and Proposals
Online workshop by Artie Hatzes
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Our SPP 1992 members at the roadshow in Heidelberg
Impressions from the Raodshow Heidelberg, which took place from 19 to 23 July.
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SPP 1992 visitor program
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.
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Annual Meeting of the German Astronomical Society in Berlin
Splinter Meeting Exoplanets – Exploring the diversity of extrasolar planets
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Universe on tour
Heidelberg 19 – 23 July 2023
Universitätsplatz, 69117 Heidelberg
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Teacher Training Astronomy Jena
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 -
Unknown Worlds: Distant planets between imagination and science
Podium discussion Thursday 06.07.2023 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Guest: Prof. Dr. Heike Rauer
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Universe on tour
Munich 05 – 09 July 2023
Platz am Bavariapark
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Teacher’s training – „News from the exoplanet world“
SPP-coordination team member Ruth Titz-Weider organized a teacher training course in Berlin.
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The SPP 1992 has new flyers!
Our goal is to increase outreach and highlight our many contributions to the exoplanet science field.
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Lange Nacht der Wissenschaft at the DLR in Berlin on June 17
There will be exciting talks by SPP members and the presentation of our poster.
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Open day at Thüringer Landessternwarte was a great success
There were over 1000 guests – only in 2001 there were more participants!
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The SPP 1992 has released new merch
SPP 1992 has created a great little selection of merch accessories.
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Travel report of our SPP 1992 member Jan-Vincent Harre
Jan-Vincent Harre reports how he enjoyed his trip to Japan.
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Universe on tour
Wednesday, 07.06.2023 – Sunday, 11.06.2023
Albaniplatz, 37073 Göttingen
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The SPP 1992 has a new poster
We are very grateful for the amazing poster by Patricia Klein
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Annual Meeting of the German Astronomical Society
Splinter Meeting Exoplanets
Exploring the diversity of extrasolar planets
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There are still places available in the SPP 1992 Summer School
July 31 – August 4, 2023
Hotel Winzerhof, Rauenberg -
Universe on tour
Jena May 31 – June 04, 2023
Theatervorplatz, Schillergäßchen
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The SPP 1992 at the Roadshow Potsdam
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.
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Universe on tour
Potsdam May 17 – 21, 2023
Luisenplatz am Brandenburger Tor
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‘Kinderuni’ in Kepler’s birthplace Weil der Stadt
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.
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SPP 1992 Seminar
On 5/15/2023 from 2pm to 3pm via virtual zoom-meeting.
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Software Engineering Position (m/f/d)
Job offer at MPIA to work on the software development for 4MOST and PLATO.
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Annual Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft 2023
The International Annual Meeting of the German Astronomical Society will be hosted by the Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Technische Universität Berlin during the week September 11-15, 2023.
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German Community PLATO Meeting 2023PLATO will be launched in 2026. It is the next European mission for exoplanet research.
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Coming up: A new planetarium show “diversity of exoplanets”
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…
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SPP 1992 All-hands-on-deck meeting 2023 in Munich
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…
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The recordings of the All-hands-on-deck Meeting are ready
Various Talks were given at the SPP 1992 conference, March 14-16, 2023, and the recordings of these can now be found here.
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Biennial European Astrobiology Conference (BEACON)
8. Mai 2023 — 12. Mai 2023
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SPP 1992 Visitor Program – Call 2023 (deadline March 31, 2023)
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…
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SPP 1992 Summer School 2023
Hands-on Numerical Astrophysics School for Planet Formation Sciences
July 31- August 4, 2023
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EXOWORLD Kickoff Meeting
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.
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Save the dates for the EU ERASMUS+ project: ‘The Universe to Youth’
The next meetings are set:
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Flyer SPP 1992
With this flyer the SPP 1992 wants to show its contributions and versatile achievements, draw attention to upcoming conferences, workshops and various outreach activities.
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Special Session at the European astronomical society annual meeting on July 11.
The Special Session topic will be: “Towards the next generation exoplanet detection and characterisation: implication for exoplanet models and demographics”.
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Invitation to participate in our SPP 1992 seminar on March 6.
Rachel Street from the Las Cumbres Observatory will talk about “Rubin survey strategy & optimization for Galactic Science”.
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“Universe on Tour” – a mobile planetarium.
The roadshow “Universe on Tour” will stop at 15 locations throughout Germany in 2023.
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Hack an exoplanet
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…
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Interview with Giulia Roccetti – an astrophysicist for planetary atmospheres and habitability
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,…
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Forum Wissenswerte: We are not alone: The search for life on exoplanets
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…
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Please register for the all-hands-on-deck meeting in Munich
The early deadline will be on February 21.
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Tag der offenen Tür at the Thüringer Landessternwarte
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…
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Please register for the PLATO German Community Meeting
It will take place from April 17 to April 18 2023 at the Institute of Planetary Research, DLR, Berlin-Adlershof.
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Teacher Training Seminar on 22.05.2023 in Rostock
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…
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Please save the date for the UK Exoplanet Community Meeting 2023
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…
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European astronomical society annual meeting
It will take place from 10 to 14 July 2023 at ICE in Kraków, Poland.
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Planetary Scientist Professor Lena Noack to receive funding from the European Research Council with an ERC Consolidator Grant
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…
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A successful start for the Science Year 2023 with the theme “Our universe”
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:…
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Movie recommendation for: Das perfekte Schwarz
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…
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Three questions for: Professor Dr. Katja Poppenhäger of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam
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…
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“ICI Berlin – Hier ist Berlin” Podcast with Heike Rauer
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…
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We are pleased to announce that the All-hands-on-deck-Meeting website is now online.
Registration and abstract submission are available!
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Broadcast on the topic of life on other worlds on Forum Wissenswerte.
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.
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Summer School “Exoplanets: Understanding alien worlds in diverse environments” is now ready for students to apply.
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…
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We are excited to be working with Patricia Klein to create new illustrations for exoplanets.
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…
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The SPP 1992 participated in the Heraeus Seminar in Bad Honnef, which took place from January 16 to 20.
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…
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Please save the date for the next all-hands-on-deck Meeting in Munich, March 14-16
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…
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A Jupiter-sized planet with an enormous density: HD 114082 b
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…
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On November 25 the “Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften” will be held in Jena.
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…
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Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Seminar: “From the Heliosphere to Astrospheres – Lessons for Exoplanets and their Habitability“
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…
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Planetarium talk in Jena: “Other stars’ planets – Earth’s strange siblings” (German)
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…
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PFE-SPP1992 joint meeting – Discussing all things planetary
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…
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Researchers may have found the first water world
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…
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Carbon dioxide found on an exoplanet by the James Webb telescope
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…
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Job Advertisment at the FU Berlin by Lena Noack’s DFG SPP 1992 project “EXO-HEAT – Interior Heating of Exoplanets“.
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…
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Final deadline for registration and abstract submission at the PFE-SPP1992 joint meeting is August 31, 2022.
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…
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Summerschool in Heidelberg from 5 to 8 September
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…
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Invitation to the public lecture Tilman Spohn will give on Sunday, September 11, at 7 pm in the Zeiss-Großplanetarium.
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.…
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Young scientists video interviews during the conference from 12 to 14 September 2022 in Berlin
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…
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Two job offers in tenure-track positions in astrophysics for the Thueringer Landessternwarte in Tautenburg/Germany
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…
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Hands-on Numerical Astrophysics School for Exoplanetary Sciences
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…
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10th Joint Workshop on High Pressure, Planetary and Plasma Physics (HP4)
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…
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We are now on Twitter
Herewith we would like to announce our presence on Twitter. All news about exoplanets and the work of SPP can be found here.
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Attention! Two places left for participation in the astrophysical summer school.
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…
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Soon you will be able to see the first images of the James Webb Space Telescope!
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.…
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Are there living planets?
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…
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Webb gets ready to study rocky worlds
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…
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Few places for teacher training availabe!
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…
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Already first indications for extragalactic exoplanets
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…
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The goals of the James Webb Space Telescope
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…
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NASA reports cosmic milestone: over 5000 exoplanets have been discovered so far!
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…
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The IAU Working Definition of an Exoplanet
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…
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Cotton candy exoplanets: the lightest planets found so far
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…
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Is Kepler 438b a second Earth?
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…
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This exoplanet has 2 suns in its sky
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…
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Fascinating find: On this exoplanet it rains liquid gems
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…
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There are still free places for participation in the Summer School from July 4 to 8, 2022 in Hanau/Germany.
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…
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Newly discovered planet orbits dead star – it shows what will happen to Earth in the future.
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…
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Angebot Masterarbeiten DLR
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.
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The James Webb Space Telescope and its contribution to the study of exoplanets
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,…
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Third planet around Proxima Centauri found
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…
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First evidence of a complex atmosphere in an exoplanet
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…
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More than 70 vagabonding exoplanets found
Planets normally orbit stars – but now astronomers have found more than 70 of them, that roam freely through the galaxy like nomads. Presumably there…
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Unexpectedly large exomoon discovered
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…
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Discussing stellar auroras as a third way to detect exoplanets via interaction between star and planetary magnetosphere.
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…
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The impact of faculae on the radius determination of exoplanets: The case of the M-star GJ 1214
“Faculae can pose a problem if they are inhomogeneously distributed on the stellar surface. Using the eclipse mapping method, we study the distribution of the…
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Discovering exoplanets with the help of our Sun
In the new podcast episode “Die solare Graviationslinse” Florian Freistetter explains how to observe exoplanets by using gravitational lensing. Click here to listen.
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Nachruf / Obituary
We deeply mourn the passing of Willy Kley, who passed away suddenly on December 21, 2021.
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The James Webb Space Telescope is fully deployed
The James Webb space telescope has reached its goal at a distance of 1.6 million kilometers from Earth, as reported by the U.S. space agency…