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Astronomical image showing bright red oxygen clouds, blue hydrogen areas, with scattered stars and galaxies, including a quasar.

JWST's sharp view unveils intricate details in galaxies' gas halo

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Triple Stellar Systems as Gravitational Wave Sources

A Universe made of Black Holes?

How stars stay young and spin slowly

A New Cosmic Ruler: Measuring the Hubble Constant with Type II Supernovae

Simulating the birth, life and dispersal of galactic star clusters

Elliptical galaxy at the center of a galaxy cluster with inset showing detailed structure.

Euclid discovers a stunning Einstein ring

Debugging Galaxy Evolution with L-GALAXIES

Researchers capture direct high-definition image of the “Cosmic Web”

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New high-powered telescope reaches Chilean peak

April 01, 2025

The Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope is now ready to be assembled at its destination in the Atacama Desert. Planned to take up operations in April 2026, it will be able to look all the way back to the Big Bang, revealing new details about star and galaxy formation.

MPA launches Mentorship Program to support aspiring astronomers

February 12, 2025

The Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) is excited to announce the launch of its new Mentorship Program, designed to connect aspiring astronomers from underrepresented groups with researchers at the institute. This initiative aims to increase diversity and inclusion in theoretical and computational astrophysics, offering participants valuable guidance and insights into the field.

Prime Focus Spectrograph on Subaru Telescope to begin scientific operations in February

January 13, 2025

Researchers have finished equipping the Subaru Telescope with a new special “compound eye” culminating several years of effort. This new instrument features approximately 2,400 fibers scattered across the extremely wide field of view available at the Subaru Telescope’s primary focus, allowing for simultaneous spectroscopic observation of thousands of celestial objects. This unrivaled capability will help researchers precisely understand the formation and evolution of galaxies and the Universe once it begins scientific operations in February 2025.

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Title 1: "Probing Galaxy Cluster Mergers by Combining Strong and Weak Gravitational Lensing in the JWST Era"; Title 2: "Statistical Analysis of Radio Relics Using Numerical Simulations"

Jul 1, 2025 from 11:00 AM to 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

The impact of close encounters and planets on the formation and evolution of solar system analogs, the debris disk systems

Jul 1, 2025 from 03:00 PM to 04:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Flux calibration: For the physics in astrophysics shouldn't we use SI-units (and why SI and not IS)

Jul 2, 2025 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)

The legacy analysis of KiDS – a blueprint for Stage 4 surveys

Jul 2, 2025 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

The importance and difficulty of far-infrared astronomy

Jul 2, 2025 from 11:30 AM to 12:15 PM (Local Time Germany)

ESO Lunch Talk

Jul 2, 2025 from 12:30 PM to 01:30 PM (Local Time Germany)

From Random Forests to Transformers: Evolving Machine Learning for Time-Domain Astronomy in ALeRCE

Jul 2, 2025 from 01:15 PM to 02:15 PM (Local Time Germany)

Title 1: Gravitational Waves from Core-Collapse Supernovae as probes of the high-energy Equation of State; Title 2: Formation of Massive Multiple-Star Systems. Early Migration & Mergers

Jul 2, 2025 from 02:00 PM to 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

A Meta-Learning Framework for decoding black hole information from optical variability

Jul 2, 2025 from 04:00 PM to 05:00 PM (Local Time Germany)

Title 1: [C II] emission as a tracer of stellar feedback in the first galaxies; Title 2: Tracing the structure, accretion history, and mass of the Milky Way with outer halo RR Lyrae stars in the DESI Milky Way Survey

Jul 3, 2025 from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM (Local Time Germany)

All That Matters: Lesson(s) learned from the high-energy Equation of State in Core-Collapse Supernovae

Jul 3, 2025 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (Local Time Germany)