

Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research: Cutting edge scientific research on our Sun, the planets and their moons, asteroids and comets. Tweets in en/de.



Using ESO's #VLT, astronomers have discovered extremely powerful winds on #exoplanet WASP-127b. The winds reach speeds up to 33 000 km/h, the fastest jetstream of its kind ever measured on a planet! Discover more: eso.org/public/news/es… Artist's impression by ESO/L. Calçada



On 14 January 2005, ESA’s #Huygens probe made history as it touched down on Titan, Saturn’s largest moon. This was humanity's first successful landing on a world in the outer Solar System. Relive those moments with this narrated video done with Huygens data youtube.com/watch?v=svmGxF… 1/3



Here's an image taken 5.5 hours before closest approach, when #bepicolombo was 44950 km from Mercury's southern hemisphere. The planet is at the bottom of the picture, below two of the spacecraft's booms.











New findings suggest that an extraordinarily powerful and dangerous burst of radiation might flare from our sun in the future. nyti.ms/4ix1Rsu



#Proba3 just deployed its solar panel!







A reanalysis of the 1986 Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus shows that it occurred during an extreme compression of the planet’s magnetosphere by the solar wind. This would have had significant effects on the measurements made during the flyby. @spaceJamieJ et al.: nature.com/articles/s4155…


