Videos featuring the MPIA directors

A video series on the research topics and working groups at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy more

Interviews with the directors Thomas Henning and Hans-Walter Rix. more

In the beginning was light – around 13.8 billion years ago, the Big Bang marked the beginning of the history of our cosmos. How could stars and galaxies suddenly appear out of the darkness? What did the light of the first day look like? Hans-Walter… more

Laura Kreidberg introduces exoplanet observing techniques that help to characterize their compositions and atmospheres. Observing secondary eclipses and phase curves are particularly powerful. Various examples from recent research illustrate what… more

This video introduces the team at MPIA working on Euclid, an ESA mission designed to explore the composition and evolution of the dark universe. This space telescope is set to launch on 1 July 2023 at 17:11 h CEST from Cape Canaveral using a SpaceX… more