Did you know major parts of the Mid-infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph (METIS) for @eso.org's Extremely Large Telescope - the imager and SCAO, the Single Conjugate Adaptive Optics - are currently built at MPIA? Have a closer look! 🔭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDLp...

1/3 Neue Einblicke in den jungen Gasriesen Beta #Pictoris b! Das Team, angeführt von MPIAs @astroandannie.bsky.social, hat gemeinsam mit Astronom*innen des @obscoteazur.bsky.social (OCA) und des GRAVITY+-Konsortiums die Atmosphäre mit #GRAVITY+ am #VLTI der @eso.org unter die Lupe genommen.

1/3🔭 New insights into the young gas giant Beta Pic b! A team led by MPIA's @astroandannie.bsky.social with astronomers from @obscoteazur.bsky.social (OCA) and the #GRAVITY+ consortium, used GRAVITY+ at the @eso.org #VLTI to probe its atmosphere. However, its origin remains a well-guarded secret.

New MPIA science highlight: Silvia Belladitta and colleagues have looked at the home galaxy of one of the new record quasars found by @ec-euclid.bsky.social - it's got a surprising amount of gas, and forms new stars at a considerable rate! www.mpia.de/news/science...

Neues MPIA-Forschungshighlight: Silvia Belladitta und Kolleg*innen haben bei einem der Rekord-Quasare, die @ec-euclid.bsky.social neu gefunden hat, die Heimatgalaxie untersucht - erstaunlich viel Gas und neue Sterne! www.mpia.de/aktuelles/wi...

Tomorrow at the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium: Yuan-Sen Ting will present our recent advances in applying Large Language Models as agents to real-world astronomical challenges and demonstrate how LLM agents can conduct end-to-end research tasks 🔭 physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/ind...

The moment we've all been waiting for is finally here… On June 29, 2026, NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory officially began the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)! 🔭🧪☄️🌌 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/action-...

Our congratulations to ESO fellows Maximilian Häberle & Bibiana Prinoth @bibianaprinoth.ch on receiving the 2025 IAU PhD Prize 👏 Assigned by each IAU Division, it acknowledges remarkable work carried out in the Division's subject area during the previous year. 1/4 🧵👇  🔭

Tomorrow at the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium, Kareem El-Badry will show how Gaia DR4 will uncover a population of non-interacting black holes that is larger than the X-ray binary population 🔭 physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/ind...

Today at the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium, Rhea-Silvia Remus invites you to a journey of galaxy formation through cosmic time and to discover how simulations and observations together shed light on how structures have formed in our Universe 🔭 physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/ind...

Today at the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium, Victor Ksoll will introduce the Invertible Neural Network framework for inverse problems, review successful applications of INNs in astronomy, and outline our ongoing developments 🔭 physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/ind...

MPIA researchers discovered clear differences between the morning and evening sides of the ultrahot gas planet WASP-121 b with JWST 🔭 www.mpia.de/news/science...

MPIA-Forschende entdecken mit dem James Webb Space Telescope deutliche Unterschiede in der Atmosphäre des ultraheißen Exoplaneten WASP-121 zwischen der morgendlichen und abendlichen Übergangszone 🔭 www.mpia.de/aktuelles/wi...

Today at the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium, Luca Fossati will show how NLTE processes shape the physical and chemical structure of Ultra-hot Jupiter atmospheres and discuss the observational evidence supporting these results 🔭 physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/ind...

Today at the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium, MPIA's Aarya Patil will show how combining spectroscopic, asteroseismic, and astrometric data yields precise estimates of stellar ages, chemical compositions, and orbits 🔭 physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/ind...

Tomorrow at the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium, Douglas Lin will look into analogies between the rapid growth of supermassive black holes in the early Universe and planet formation in protostellar disks 🔭 physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/ind...

Tomorrow at the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium, Oscar Agertz will discuss the properties of gas-rich, high-redshift disks, and how these early phases of disk assembly connect to spectroscopic and astrometric observations of the Milky Way 🔭 physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/ind...

Tomorrow at the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium, Ian Roederer will show how UV spectroscopy with the ELT and the proposed Habitable Worlds Observatory mission could revolutionize our understanding of the first stars in the decades ahead 🔭 physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/ind...

1/3 🔭 Exciting discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope! Researchers from MPIA and CfA | Harvard & Smithsonian analysed the rocky exoplanet LHS 3844 b, revealing a dark, hot surface likely composed of basalt. We are beginning to do #exogeology. 🌌 #Exoplanets #JWST www.mpia.de/news/science...

1/3 🧵Spannende Entdeckungen des James-Webb-Weltraumteleskops! Forschende haben den Gesteins-Exoplaneten LHS 3844 b analysiert und eine dunkle, heiße Oberfläche nachgewiesen, die wahrscheinlich aus Basalt besteht. Wir beginnen damit, #Exogeologie zu betreiben.🌌 #Exoplaneten #JWST

Tomorrow at the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium, Gaël Buldgen will review the limitations of solar evolutionary models in the light of their role as key calibrators of stellar evolution theory 🔭 physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/ind...

Today at the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium, Trifon Trifonov will highlight well-characterised giant planet systems that provide important insights into the mechanisms shaping planetary systems during their formation and early evolution 🔭 physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/ind...

1/4 New insights into a cold “Super-Jupiter”: Using #JWST, we found evidence of water-ice clouds on Epsilon Indi Ab! This discovery shows that even cold gas giant atmospheres are far more complex than our current models suggest. 🔭 Full press release: www.mpia.de/news/science...

1/4 Eiswolken auf einem fernen „Super-Jupiter“: Mit dem #JWST hab @elisabethastro.bsky.social Hinweise auf Wassereiswolken in der Atmosphäre von Epsilon Indi Ab gefunden! 🌌 Die Entdeckung zeigt, dass die Atmosphären kalter Gasriesen viel komplexer sind als bisherige Modelle.

Happy to share that my latest paper is published in ApJL today 🪐 we study the closest and coldest imaged exoplanet, with a particular focus on ammonia and clouds in its atmosphere. @mpi-astro.bsky.social wrote up an article explaining our findings here: www.mpia.de/news/science...

1/4 🌌 Become a citizen scientist for ESA’s Euclid mission! The universe is vast, and we need your help to unlock its secrets. In collaboration with @ec-euclid.bsky.social and ESA, we are hunting for "Space Warps" – gravitational lenses that bend light from distant galaxies. #Astronomy #STEM #Euclid

1/4 🌌 Werde Teil der ESA-Mission #Euclid! Das Universum ist riesig, und wir brauchen deine Augen, um seine Geheimnisse zu entschlüsseln. Gemeinsam mit @ec-euclid.bsky.social und der #ESA suchen wir nach „Space Warps“ – Gravitationslinsen, die das Licht ferner Galaxien krümmen. #Astronomie #MINT

Es gibt ein zusätzliches englischsprachiges Angebot von Wissenschaftler*innen des MPIA zum Girls' Day am 23. April für Mädchen ab 14 Jahren! Jetzt noch schnell anmelden! www.girls-day.de/.oO/Show/max...

Was wissen wir über unsere Heimatgalaxie? Morgen, am 19. März um 19 Uhr wirft Henrik Beuther vom @mpi-astro.bsky.social in unserem Auditorium einen Blick auf die Milchstraße bei unterschiedlichen Wellenlängen und verrät uns, was wir daraus lernen können 🔭 Tickets: www.ztix.de/haus-der-ast...

„Het breekt mijn hart om mijn land zo’n anti-wetenschappelijke richting te zien inslaan. Juist daarom moeten we waakzaam zijn en deelnemen aan het politieke proces.” @lkreidberg.bsky.social @lucasellerbroek.bsky.social @nrcwetenschap.bsky.social @mpi-astro.bsky.social www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Particularly for our Dutch followers, here is an article about our director @lkreidberg.bsky.social and her research - but also some topics beyond astronomy.

Am Girls' Day am 23. April haben Mädchen ab der 5. Klasse die Gelegenheit bei uns und am @mpi-astro.bsky.social einen Blick hinter die Kulissen astronomischer Forschung zu werfen. Jetzt anmelden! www.haus-der-astronomie.de/aktuelles/gi...

Heute Abend gibts bei Astro & Co Astronomie und Chemie: Um 19 Uhr wirft Klaus Paschek vom @mpi-astro.bsky.social live einen Blick auf die Entstehung der Bausteine des Lebens im All und auf der jungen Erde 🔭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWiT...

Tomorrow at the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium, Esra Bulbul will present how to derive cosmological constraints from the evolution of galaxy cluster mass functions, combining eROSITA data with optical surveys such as DESI Legacy, DES, HSC and KIDS 🔭 physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/ind...

1/ MPIAs Mark McCaughrean, der zuvor bei der ESA als Leitender Berater für Wissenschaft und Forschung bei der ESA und in der JWST Science Working Group tätig war, hat dieses Bild aus JWST-Daten produziert. Es zeigt den "Dragon Jet" oder auch HH 288.

1/ 🔭This article written by @drcarpineti.bsky.social features a new stunning image obtained by #JWST and presented by MPIA's Mark McCaughrean, a former member of the JWST Science Working Group at ESA. It shows HH 288 also known as the #Dragon Jet. 🐉

Se mai dovesse servirvi un cubo di universo da un miliardo di anni luce di lato, #IllustrisTng è il prodotto che fa per voi: è una suite di simulazioni dell’evoluzione del cosmo dal Big Bang a oggi. Ne parliamo con una delle autrici, l’astrofisica Annalisa Pillepich del @mpi-astro.bsky.social.

Tomorrow at the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium, Anna-Christina Eilers will highlight new results constraining the obscured fraction of quasars, their emission geometry, and the timescales of supermassive black hole growth 🔭 physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/ind...

🌌 New insights from the ALMA survey reveal the teenage years of planetary systems! These detailed images of debris discs capture the chaotic growth stages of planets, akin to adolescence. #PlanetaryScience #ALMA @thenrao.bsky.social 🔭 www.mpia.de/news/science...

Astronomen haben mit ALMA die faszinierenden Jugendphasen von Planetensystemen sichtbar gemacht! 🌌 Die neuen Erkenntnisse zeigen chaotische Trümmerringe, die auf turbulente Entstehung hinweisen. #Astronomie #Planetensysteme @thenrao.bsky.social www.mpia.de/aktuelles/wi...

Tomorrow at the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium, Katja Poppenhäger will show exciting new results for observations of Star-Planet Interactions and give an outlook on the possibilities for the field in the near future 🔭 physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/ind...

Tomorrow at the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium, Lars Mohrmann will showcase the astrophysics that can be probed with imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, focusing on recent scientific highlights from H.E.S.S. 🔭 physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/ind...

Winter Wonderland Heidelberg-Königstuhl ❄️

Fully funded opportunity for bachelors and masters students to come work at MPIA in summer 2026!

Great research opportunity at a world leading institute 🔭

From Annelia Anderson @astroannelia.bsky.social : Today’s paper argues that a little red dot with a massive Balmer break could be a black hole star. ⚛️🔭☄🧪 astrobites.org/2025/12/29/b...

Hubble images show the formation of two enormous dust clouds caused by collisions between kilometre-sized celestial bodies around the star Fomalhaut. The dust clouds can easily be confused with real planets – an important clue for future observation missions 🔭 www.mpia.de/news/science...

Hubble-Aufnahmen zeigen die Entstehung zweier gewaltiger Staubwolken durch Zusammenstöße kilometergroßer Himmelskörper um den Stern Fomalhaut. Die Staubwolken können leicht mit Planeten verwechselt werden – ein wichtiger Hinweis für zukünftige Beobachtungsmissionen 🔭 www.mpia.de/aktuelles/wi...

Are you a bachelor or master student anywhere in the world, and would like to come to us to work full-time on a supervised research project? Applications for the 2026 MPIA Summer Internship are open now!

Today at the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium, Stefanie Walch-Gassner will will give an overview of the importance of stellar feedback for the evolution of galaxies 🔭 physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/ind...