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The European exoplanet mission PLATO, which will be launched into space at the end of next year, has reached an important milestone. The optical bench with its 26 cameras has now been assembled in the clean rooms of the aerospace company OHB System ...

Björn Müller, researcher at the MPI for Solar System Research, and Cai Dieball, scientist at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Multidisciplinary Sciences, and have been awarded the Otto Hahn Medal for outstanding achievements in their dissertations ...

During its latest flyby of the Sun at the end of March this year, the Solar Orbiter space probe had its first clear view of our star's poles. The first images and observational data from the south pole taken during this flyby were published today ...