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100 years Observatory Babelsberg 2 Aug 2013 | 01:25 pm
On Saturday, August 10th, the AIP invites everyone to join the summer celebration in front of the historic observatory building. From 1 to 5 pm guided tours through the observatory, children activitie...
This is your galaxy - New data help astronomers explore the hidden Milky Way 31 Jul 2013 | 11:40 am
The highlight of today's "Data Release 10" is a new set of high-resolution stellar spectra using infrared light, invisible to human eyes but able to penetrate the veil of dust that obscures the center...
Nature article on frequency of planets inside and outside of open starclusters 27 Jun 2013 | 04:20 pm
The two new alien worlds appeared in data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft. Kepler hunts for planets that transit, or cross in front of, their host stars. During a transit, the star dims by an amount tha...
Nature article on frequency of planets inside and outside of open starclusters 27 Jun 2013 | 04:18 pm
The two new alien worlds appeared in data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft. Kepler hunts for planets that transit, or cross in front of, their host stars. During a transit, the star dims by an amount tha...
Measuring the Universe More Accurately Than Ever Before 7 Mar 2013 | 04:00 am
Astronomers survey the scale of the Universe by first measuring the distances to close-by objects and then using them as standard candles [1] to pin down distances further and further out into the cos...
Where are all the dwarfs? 1 Feb 2013 | 01:30 pm
High-precision observations over the last two decades have indicated that our Universe consists of about 75% Dark Energy, 20% Dark Matter and 5% ordinary matter. Galaxies and matter in the universe cl...
Life possible on extrasolar moons 10 Jan 2013 | 01:00 pm
The research, conducted by René Heller of Germany's Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam and Rory Barnes of the University of Washington and the NASA Astrobiology Institute, will appear in the J...
From Sunspots to Starspots 6 Dec 2012 | 02:00 pm
Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) have reported the first magnetic field strength determination of a dark starspot. They have shown that starspots are indeed the loca...
CALIFA: The local extragalactic universe unveiled 1 Nov 2012 | 12:20 pm
Together with the data release, two technical publications authored by members of the CALIFA collaboration have been made publicly available, describing the data and showing some of their scientific a...
