News at MPA

February 2026
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TBA

Feb 3, 2026 from 11:00 AM to 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)

"Blueberries and Green Peas"

Feb 3, 2026 from 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

USM Games Night

Feb 4, 2026 from 06:00 PM to 08:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

"How AGN Shape Their Host Galaxies and Larger Scale Environments"

Feb 5, 2026 from 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM (Local Time Germany)

"Spectrally-Resolved Primary and Secondary Cosmic Ray Nuclei in the Interstellar Medium"

Feb 5, 2026 from 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

"Super-Accreting X-Ray Binaries as Super Accelerators: A Multimessenger Perspective"

Feb 6, 2026 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

"Exceptional Scalar Field Theories"

Feb 6, 2026 from 01:00 PM to 02:30 PM (Local Time Germany)

IMPRS Colloquium

Feb 9, 2026 from 02:00 PM to 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

"Astronomical Instrumentation Development at Canada’s NRC Herzberg"

Feb 10, 2026 from 12:00 PM to 12:45 PM (Local Time Germany)

"Looking for the Onset of the RSG Mass Loss: VLTI Imaging of Antares (Alpha Sco)"

Feb 10, 2026 from 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

"Do We Need AI in Science?"

Feb 11, 2026 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)

"The First Chapters of Galaxy Build-up: From the JWST Era to the Future"

Feb 11, 2026 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

"Girls, Women and Science: Making the Invisible Visible"

Feb 11, 2026 from 05:30 PM to 07:30 PM (Local Time Germany)

"A Dynamical Picture of Nearby Galaxies and Their Supermassive Black Holes"

Feb 12, 2026 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Event Was Rescheduled

"Measuring the Universe: How Earth Lost Its Place at the Centre"

Feb 12, 2026 from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

"The First Stellar Systems in Focus: Lensed Star Clusters From HST and JWST to ELT"

Feb 12, 2026 from 03:15 PM to 04:15 PM (Local Time Germany)

Deadline for Talk Titles and ePosters – Scientific Advisory Board Visit 2026

Feb 23, 2026 from 12:00 AM to 01:00 AM (Local Time Germany)

"Galactic Outflows and Star-Formation Quenching in the Early Universe"

Feb 23, 2026 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Room changed to Old Seminar Room, X2 209

"What Is the Future for Laboratory Astrochemistry?"

Feb 24, 2026 from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Upcoming seminars

"A Dynamical Picture of Nearby Galaxies and Their Supermassive Black Holes"

Event Was Rescheduled
Feb 12, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPE, Room: Old Seminar Room X2/209

"The First Stellar Systems in Focus: Lensed Star Clusters From HST and JWST to ELT"

Feb 12, 2026 03:15 PM - 04:15 PM (Local Time Germany)
ESO Garching, Room: Auditorium Eridanus (ESO HQE, Garching)

"Galactic Outflows and Star-Formation Quenching in the Early Universe"

Room changed to Old Seminar Room, X2 209
Feb 23, 2026 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPE, Room: Old Seminar Room, X2 209

"What Is the Future for Laboratory Astrochemistry?"

Feb 24, 2026 12:00 PM - 01:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
MPE, Room: Old Seminar Room X2/209

Meet our MPA fellows

A look back forward
​​​​​​​​2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Max Planck Society. On February 26, 1948, in Göttingen, the proven concept of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society as a successful model of non-university research funding was rescued for the young Federal Republic, but also changed in a forward-looking way. Both are the basis of the MPG in its present form and success. The anniversary is celebrated as the most important caesura within the history of the MPG, which goes back to 1911, and at the same time sets the course for the future viability of the society, which must be discussed again and again.
Find out more in the MAX Intranet:

About MPA

Structure

Managing Director
Prof. Dr. Selma E. de Mink

Scientific Members, Kollegium, Directors
Prof. Dr. Selma E. de Mink
Prof. Dr. Guinevere Kauffmann
Prof. Dr. Eiichiro Komatsu
Prof. Dr. Volker Springel

Emeritus Directors
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Hillebrandt
Prof. Dr. Rashid Sunyaev
Prof. Dr. Simon White

External Scientific Members
Prof. Dr. Rolf-Peter Kudritzki
Prof. Dr. Werner Tscharnuter

Head of the administration
Pia Fischhaber

Contact

Press and Public Relations
Dr. Hannelore Haemmerle
Phone: 089 30000-2179
email: pr@mpa-garching.mpg.de

Dr. Hans-Thomas Janka
Phone: 089 30000-2228
(contact per phone only)

Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching
Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1
Postfach 1317
D-85741 Garching, Germany

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