Press Releases   2015/2014     2013     2012     2011     2010     2009     2008     2007     2006     2005...      show all news Kippenhahn Prize 2014 is awarded to two junior scientists August 2015 This year's MPA barbeque saw quite a number of celebrations: Richard D'Souza and Marco Selig, two young MPA researchers, wrote outstanding scientific publications and were awarded the Kippenhahn Prize 2014. Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2015 Mai 2015 Am Samstag, den 27. Juni öffnet das Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik (MPA) von 18 bis 24 Uhr seine Türen. Wir laden Sie ein, das Institut und seine Mitarbeiter in der "Langen Nacht der Wissenschaften" kennen zu lernen. Biermann lectures - How to model an extra solar planet May 2015 In this year's Biermann Lectures Professor Isabelle Baraffe from the University of Exeter will talk about exoplanet modelling. The different aspects touched on in the course of the miniseries will range from an exoplanet's interior structure to its outer atmosphere. Dusty substructure in a galaxy far far away April 2015 Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) have combined high-resolution images from the ALMA telescopes with a new scheme for undoing the distorting effects of a powerful gravitational lens in order to provide the first detailed picture of a young and distant galaxy, over 11 billion light-years from Earth. Chushiro Hayashi Prize awarded to Eiichiro Komatsu March 2015 On 19 March, the Astronomical Society of Japan honoured MPA Director Eiichiro Komatsu with the "Chushiro Hayashi Prize" during its annual spring meeting at Osaka University. The Software Legacy of the Planck Mission March 2015 The Planck mission to survey the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) has not only advanced our understanding of the Universe, it also created advanced software systems for data analysis. Rashid Sunyaev receives Zel'dovich Gold Medal from the Russian Academy of Sciences March 2015 In 2015, the presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) decided to award MPA director Rashid Sunyaev with the Gold Medal named after Ya.B. Zel'dovich for a sequence of the papers about the very early universe, containing calculations about the last scattering of photons and the black body radiation that was later observed as the cosmic microwave background. Rashid Sunyaev receives Eddington Medal from the Royal Astronomical Society March 2015 In 2015, the Eddington Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society goes to Professor Rashid Sunyaev, director at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Planck reveals first stars were born late February 2015 New maps from ESA's Planck satellite uncover the "polarised" light from the early Universe across the entire sky, revealing that the first stars formed much later than previously thought. Girls Day 2015: Changing Skies December 2014 School girls will travel from the skies above Garching back to the very beginnings of the Universe if they come to the Girls' Day at the Max-Planck-Institute for Astrophysics. Kippenhahn Prize 2013 for Tyrone Woods November 2014 In November, the MPA awarded Tyrone Woods with the annual Rudolph Kippenhahn Prize for his paper "He II recombination lines as a test of the nature of SN Ia progenitors in elliptical galaxies" Looking into the heart of a supernova explosion August 2014 First detection of Cobalt gamma-ray lines from a type Ia supernova (SN2014J) with INTEGRAL Eugene Churazov receives Harrie Massey Award August 2014 On 4 August, Eugene Churazov received the "Sir Harrie Massey award" during the opening ceremony of the COSPAR Scientific Assembly with more than 2000 participants taking place in the Aula Magna of Moscow University. Dissertation Award for Mike Anderson August 2014 End of April 2014, the Rackham Graduate School at the University of Michigan awarded Mike Anderson with a ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award for his PhD thesis. Igniting a supernova explosion July 2014 High-energy observations with the INTEGRAL space observatory have revealed a surprising signal of gamma-rays from the surface of material ejected by a recent supernova explosion. Looking in all the right places: the Sloan Digital Sky Survey extends its reach July 2014 At the beginning of July, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey started a new phase with three major new programmes. Biermann Lectures 2014 May 2014 Biermann Lectures - Astrophysical research with computer simulations - Volker Springel

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