Outflows of matter and energy from a galaxy's centre are considered key players in the formation and evolution of galaxies and other structures in the Universe. Astronomers led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics have now created the most extensive X-ray map of the central degrees of the Milky Way, thereby discovering a channel of X-ray emitting gas connecting the Milky Way centre to structures much further out.
Detailed observations of the quasar 3C 273 with the GRAVITY instrument reveal the structure of rapidly moving gas around the central super-massive black hole, the first time that the so-called "broad line region" could be resolved.
On 6 March, a series of White Papers was published to introduce the 4MOST survey program to the scientific community. The 4-metre Multi-Object Spectroscopic Telescope 4MOST will be the largest spectroscopic survey facility of its kind in the Southern hemisphere and will address today's most pressing astronomical questions in the fields of Galactic archaeology, high-energy astrophysics, galaxy evolu­tion and cosmology, starting its public survey program in 2022. MPE has contributed two of the White Papers with the aim of using 4MOST to the followup of eROSITA sources in two major surveys dedicated to Active Galactic Nuclei and Clusters of Galaxies, respectively.
Last week at LAM Marseille, the optical assembly consisting of the camera lens assembly "CaLA" and the corrector lens assembly "CoLA" have been fully integrated on the near-infrared optics NISP for the Euclid satellite. Euclid is an ESA mission, planned to launch in 2022 to study the "Dark Universe". Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics are responsible for the overall optical design of the near-infrared instrument NISP NI-OA.
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Girls can choose one of two offers for the Girls' Day at MPE: 1. Blick ins All mit "Infrarot- und Röntgenaugen" or 2. MPE Werkstatt: Bohren, Fräsen, Schneiden für die Astronomie.