Max Planck Institute, Garching, Germany, Author at Astronomy.com

Exotic Objects, Milky Way

Gas cloud swings around galactic center black hole

Exotic Objects, Stars

The violent birth of neutron stars

Exoplanets, Planets

A planetary system from the early universe

Deep-Sky Objects, Stars

Globular star clusters survive 13-billion-year-old massacre

Milky Way, Science

New all-sky map shows the magnetic fields of the Milky Way with the highest precision

Magnetic fields set the stage for the birth of new stars

Cosmic crashes forge gold

First light for Virus-W spectrograph

Cosmology, Exotic Objects, Science

No direct link between black holes and dark matter

Science, Solar System

A look into Vesta’s interior

Science, Solar System

Sunrise mission reveals Sun’s magnetic building blocks