Today at the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium, Sarah Bosman will present recent record-breaking observations of the most metal-poor galaxy detected to date as well as observations which help elucidate the mystery of the existence of quasars at z>7 🔭 physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/ind...

After more than ten years of playing hide-and-seek, a new, very faint planet around beta Pictoris has been discovered. Beta Pictoris d is orbiting much farther from its star than many other known gas giants, with an orbital period of 91 years 🔭 www.mpia.de/news/science...

A New Planet in the Beta Pictoris System

Astronomers discover Beta Pictoris d, a faint gas giant exoplanet, expanding insights into planet formation in multi-planet systems.

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Nach mehr als zehn Jahren Versteckspiel hat man durch direkte Abbildung einen neuen, sehr lichtschwachen Planeten um den Stern beta Pictoris entdeckt. Beta Pictoris d zieht seine Bahn deutlich weiter entfernt von seinem Zentralgestirn als viele andere bekannte Gasriesen 🔭 www.mpia.de/aktuelles/wi...

Ein neuer Planet im Beta-Pictoris-System

Entdeckung von Beta Pictoris d: Ein lichtschwacher Gasriese im Mehrfachplanetensystem um Beta Pictoris, direkt abgebildet und analysiert.

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Today at the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium: Colin Snodgrass will discuss the Interstellar Objects seen so far, the prospects for this field in the era of Rubin/LSST, and how we could potentially send a spacecraft to see a future visitor up close 🔭 physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/ind...

Did you know major parts of the Mid-infrared ELT Imager and Spectrograph (METIS) for @eso.org's Extremely Large Telescope - the imager and SCAO, the Single Conjugate Adaptive Optics - are currently built at MPIA? Have a closer look! 🔭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDLp...

METIS SCAO goes to town

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1/3 Neue Einblicke in den jungen Gasriesen Beta #Pictoris b! Das Team, angeführt von MPIAs @astroandannie.bsky.social, hat gemeinsam mit Astronom*innen des @obscoteazur.bsky.social (OCA) und des GRAVITY+-Konsortiums die Atmosphäre mit #GRAVITY+ am #VLTI der @eso.org unter die Lupe genommen.

Junger Riesen-Gasplanet Beta Pic b verweigert Einblicke in seinen Ursprung

Neue GRAVITY-Daten zeigen Zweifel an Isotopenverhältnissen als Herkunftsindikator für Riesenplaneten wie Beta Pic b.

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1/3🔭 New insights into the young gas giant Beta Pic b! A team led by MPIA's @astroandannie.bsky.social with astronomers from @obscoteazur.bsky.social (OCA) and the #GRAVITY+ consortium, used GRAVITY+ at the @eso.org #VLTI to probe its atmosphere. However, its origin remains a well-guarded secret.

Young Giant Gas Planet Beta Pic b Refuses to Reveal its Origin

New findings on Beta Pic b's atmosphere challenge traditional methods of tracing giant gas planets' formation locations.

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New MPIA science highlight: Silvia Belladitta and colleagues have looked at the home galaxy of one of the new record quasars found by @ec-euclid.bsky.social - it's got a surprising amount of gas, and forms new stars at a considerable rate! www.mpia.de/news/science...

Probing the host galaxy of one of the most distant quasars

ESA’s space telescope Euclid has opened up a new chapter in the study of early galaxies. New research by Silvia Belladitta (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, MPIA) and colleagues has followed up on ...

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Neues MPIA-Forschungshighlight: Silvia Belladitta und Kolleg*innen haben bei einem der Rekord-Quasare, die @ec-euclid.bsky.social neu gefunden hat, die Heimatgalaxie untersucht - erstaunlich viel Gas und neue Sterne! www.mpia.de/aktuelles/wi...

Erster Blick auf die Heimatgalaxie eines extrem weit entfernten Quasars

Mit dem ESA-Weltraumteleskop Euclid hat jetzt ein neues Kapitel der Erforschung früher Quasare und ihrer Heimatgalaxien begonnen. Neue Forschungsergebnisse von Silvia Belladitta (Max-Planck-Institut f...

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Tomorrow at the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium: Yuan-Sen Ting will present our recent advances in applying Large Language Models as agents to real-world astronomical challenges and demonstrate how LLM agents can conduct end-to-end research tasks 🔭 physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/ind...

The moment we've all been waiting for is finally here… On June 29, 2026, NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory officially began the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)! 🔭🧪☄️🌌 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/action-...

Our congratulations to ESO fellows Maximilian Häberle & Bibiana Prinoth @bibianaprinoth.ch on receiving the 2025 IAU PhD Prize 👏 Assigned by each IAU Division, it acknowledges remarkable work carried out in the Division's subject area during the previous year. 1/4 🧵👇  🔭

Tomorrow at the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium, Kareem El-Badry will show how Gaia DR4 will uncover a population of non-interacting black holes that is larger than the X-ray binary population 🔭 physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/ind...

Today at the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium, Rhea-Silvia Remus invites you to a journey of galaxy formation through cosmic time and to discover how simulations and observations together shed light on how structures have formed in our Universe 🔭 physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/ind...

Today at the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium, Victor Ksoll will introduce the Invertible Neural Network framework for inverse problems, review successful applications of INNs in astronomy, and outline our ongoing developments 🔭 physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/ind...

MPIA researchers discovered clear differences between the morning and evening sides of the ultrahot gas planet WASP-121 b with JWST 🔭 www.mpia.de/news/science...

From Dusk Till Dawn

Astronomers reveal atmospheric differences between morning and evening sides of ultrahot exoplanet WASP121 b using JWST observations.

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MPIA-Forschende entdecken mit dem James Webb Space Telescope deutliche Unterschiede in der Atmosphäre des ultraheißen Exoplaneten WASP-121 zwischen der morgendlichen und abendlichen Übergangszone 🔭 www.mpia.de/aktuelles/wi...

Von der Dämmerung bis zum Morgengrauen

Astronomen entdecken Unterschiede in Temperatur und Chemie zwischen Morgen- und Abendzone auf dem ultraheißen Exoplaneten WASP-121 b.

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Today at the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium, Luca Fossati will show how NLTE processes shape the physical and chemical structure of Ultra-hot Jupiter atmospheres and discuss the observational evidence supporting these results 🔭 physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/ind...

Today at the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium, MPIA's Aarya Patil will show how combining spectroscopic, asteroseismic, and astrometric data yields precise estimates of stellar ages, chemical compositions, and orbits 🔭 physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/ind...

Tomorrow at the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium, Douglas Lin will look into analogies between the rapid growth of supermassive black holes in the early Universe and planet formation in protostellar disks 🔭 physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/ind...

Tomorrow at the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium, Oscar Agertz will discuss the properties of gas-rich, high-redshift disks, and how these early phases of disk assembly connect to spectroscopic and astrometric observations of the Milky Way 🔭 physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/ind...

Tomorrow at the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium, Ian Roederer will show how UV spectroscopy with the ELT and the proposed Habitable Worlds Observatory mission could revolutionize our understanding of the first stars in the decades ahead 🔭 physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/ind...

1/3 🔭 Exciting discoveries from the James Webb Space Telescope! Researchers from MPIA and CfA | Harvard & Smithsonian analysed the rocky exoplanet LHS 3844 b, revealing a dark, hot surface likely composed of basalt. We are beginning to do #exogeology. 🌌 #Exoplanets #JWST www.mpia.de/news/science...

Astronomers Explore the Surface Composition of a Nearby Super-Earth

Astronomers constrain the properties of a rocky exoplanet’s hot crust with JWST observations.

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1/3 🧵Spannende Entdeckungen des James-Webb-Weltraumteleskops! Forschende haben den Gesteins-Exoplaneten LHS 3844 b analysiert und eine dunkle, heiße Oberfläche nachgewiesen, die wahrscheinlich aus Basalt besteht. Wir beginnen damit, #Exogeologie zu betreiben.🌌 #Exoplaneten #JWST

Astronomen untersuchen die Ober­flächen­beschaffen­heit einer nahen Supererde

Beobachtungen mit dem Weltraumteleskop James Webb ermitteln Eigenschaften der heißen Gesteinskruste einer Super-Erde

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Tomorrow at the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium, Gaël Buldgen will review the limitations of solar evolutionary models in the light of their role as key calibrators of stellar evolution theory 🔭 physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/ind...

Today at the Heidelberg Joint Astronomical Colloquium, Trifon Trifonov will highlight well-characterised giant planet systems that provide important insights into the mechanisms shaping planetary systems during their formation and early evolution 🔭 physik.uni-heidelberg.de/hephysto/ind...

1/4 New insights into a cold “Super-Jupiter”: Using #JWST, we found evidence of water-ice clouds on Epsilon Indi Ab! This discovery shows that even cold gas giant atmospheres are far more complex than our current models suggest. 🔭 Full press release: www.mpia.de/news/science...

Astronomers find an exo-Jupiter, and it seems to have clouds

To the point ● New observations: Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the atmosphere of a massive Jupiter-analogue. ● Evidence for clouds: Surprisingly, the observations ind...

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1/4 Eiswolken auf einem fernen „Super-Jupiter“: Mit dem #JWST hab @elisabethastro.bsky.social Hinweise auf Wassereiswolken in der Atmosphäre von Epsilon Indi Ab gefunden! 🌌 Die Entdeckung zeigt, dass die Atmosphären kalter Gasriesen viel komplexer sind als bisherige Modelle.

Astronomen entdecken einen Exo-Jupiter, der offenbar Wolken besitzt

Auf den Punkt gebracht: • Neue Beobachtungen: Astronomen haben mithilfe des James-Webb-Weltraumteleskops die Atmosphäre eines massereichen Jupiter-Analogons untersucht. • Hinweise auf Wolken: Überrasc...

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Happy to share that my latest paper is published in ApJL today 🪐 we study the closest and coldest imaged exoplanet, with a particular focus on ammonia and clouds in its atmosphere. @mpi-astro.bsky.social wrote up an article explaining our findings here: www.mpia.de/news/science...

Astronomers find an exo-Jupiter, and it seems to have clouds

To the point ● New observations: Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to study the atmosphere of a massive Jupiter-analogue. ● Evidence for clouds: Surprisingly, the observations ind...

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1/4 🌌 Become a citizen scientist for ESA’s Euclid mission! The universe is vast, and we need your help to unlock its secrets. In collaboration with @ec-euclid.bsky.social and ESA, we are hunting for "Space Warps" – gravitational lenses that bend light from distant galaxies. #Astronomy #STEM #Euclid

Space Warps - ESA Euclid | Zooniverse - People-powered research

Elusive strongly lensed galaxies are waiting to be discovered!

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