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After almost one and a half years of traveling through space, ESA’s space probe JUICE is due to pay a visit home at the beginning of next week: In order to adjust its speed and course on its way to Jupiter, the space probe will first fly close to the ...
The extremely thin atmosphere that surrounds the moon is primarily created by the constant bombardment of the lunar surface by dust-sized mini-meteorites. Other processes, such as the interaction with particles and radiation from the Sun, play a ...
Ring-shaped perturbations in disks of gas and dust orbiting young stars can trigger the formation of several gas giants, as researchers from the ORIGINS Cluster of Excellence, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich (Germany) and the Max Planck ...
Dr. Yuto Bekki of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) has been honored with the Otto Haxel Award for Physics for his doctoral dissertation. In collaboration with the German Physical Society (DPG), the Society for the Promotion of ...