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linkPfeil.gif Cosmic Vibrations from Neutron Stars
February 2012
Andreas Bauswein, Hannelore Hämmerle, H.-Thomas Janka

linkPfeil.gif Planck's HFI completes its survey of early Universe
January 2012
The High Frequency Instrument on ESA's Planck mission has completed its survey of the remnant light from the Big Bang. The sensor ran out of coolant on Saturday, 14. January, as expected, ending its ability to detect this faint energy.

linkPfeil.gif Eiichiro Komatsu becomes director at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
January 2012
With the new year, a new director arrives in Garching: Eiichiro Komatsu relocates from the University of Texas to the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics.

linkPfeil.gif SDSS-III finds a large population of massive galaxies still alive eight billion years after the Big Bang
January 2012
Guinevere Kauffmann

linkPfeil.gif Rashid Sunyaev wins 2012 Franklin Medal in Physics
December 2011
On 19 December 2011 the Franklin Institute announced that the 2012 Franklin Medal in Physics goes to Rashid Sunyaev, Director of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, for ”his monumental contributions to understanding the early universe and the properties of black holes.“

linkPfeil.gif New all-sky map shows the magnetic fields of the Milky Way with the highest precision
December 2011
With a unique new all-sky map, scientists at MPA have made significant progress toward measuring the magnetic field structure of the Milky Way in unprecedented detail. Specifically, the map is of a quantity known as Faraday depth, which among other things, depends strongly on the magnetic fields along a particular line of sight. To produce the map, data were combined from more than 41,000 individual measurements using a novel image reconstruction technique.

linkPfeil.gif Black hole pairs: shrinking, stretching and flipping
December 2011
Alessia Gualandris

linkPfeil.gif Unusual explanation for peculiar stellar explosion
December 2011
The so called ”Christmas Burst“, a very energetic stellar explosion that took place a year ago, might have a very unusual origin: an international team of scientists propose a new model for this gamma-ray burst (GRB).

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