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linkPfeil.gif Magnetic fields in merging neutron stars
August 2010
Martin Obergaulinger, Miguel Angel Aloy, Ewald Müller

linkPfeil.gif Planck delivers first all-sky image
July 2010
Less than a year after routine operations began for the ESA Planck satellite, the international consortium now released the first all-sky image of the microwave sky, using data spanning the full frequency range of Planck from 30 to 857 GHz. It not only provides new insight into the way stars and galaxies form but also tells us how the Universe itself came to life after the Big Bang.

linkPfeil.gif What is the matter with dwarf galaxies?
July 2010
Till Sawala

linkPfeil.gif Rashid Sunyaev receives German Federal Cross of Merit
July 2010
End of June, the Bavarian Minister for Science, Research and Art, Dr. Wolfgang Heubisch, presented Rashid Sunyaev, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics with the German Federal Order of Merit on ribbon for his fundamental contributions to cosmology and astrophysics.

linkPfeil.gif Problem of spectral diversity in supernovae solved with asymmetric explosions — SN Ia are standard candles after all
July 2010
A long-standing mystery regarding gigantic stellar explosions is now solved: A group of researchers from institutes around the world, including the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics have found the reason why supernovae that look like twins in their luminosities show substantial diversity in their spectra.

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