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linkPfeil.gif Gerhard Börner wins CAS Award
February 2010
The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced that Professor Dr. Gerhard Börner from MPA won the CAS Award for International Cooperation in Science and Technology for 2009 together with space astrophysicist Professor Roger Bonnet (France) and botanist Professor Peter Raven (USA). The award was bestowed at the CAS’ annual conference held 25-27January 2010 in Beijing.

linkPfeil.gif The GALEX Arecibo SDSS Survey
February 2010
Barbara Catinella

Arecibo Observatory. Picture courtesy of the NAIC - Arecibo Observatory, a facility of the NSF.

linkPfeil.gif Violent explosions in space
January 2010
Astronomers simulate how white dwarf stars merge and become a supernova

linkPfeil.gif Massive, Dense Nuclei in Young Starbursts: Progenitors of Early Type Galaxy Cusps?
January 2010
Roderik Overzier

linkPfeil.gif International Year of Astronomy 2009
December 2009
In remembrance of milestones in the history of astronomy the United Nations proclaimed the year 2009 as the International Year of Astronomy (IYA). The Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) has initiated a variety of regional and supra-regional projects with the objective of getting children and grown-ups interested in astrophysics and astronomy.

linkPfeil.gif Mapping of the Universe beyond the Known
December 2009
Jens Jasche, Franciso S. Kitaura, Cheng Li, Torsten A. Enßlin

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