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A new twist on stellar rotation - Nachricht, 20.09.2018
Like our Sun, distant stars are rotating spheres of hot gas. Stars, however, do not rotate like solid spheres: regions at different latitudes rotate at different rates. An international group …
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Anneliese Maier Research Award 2018 to Professor Wang Hui - Nachricht, 13.09.2018
On 12 September, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation presented an Anneliese Maier Research Award to Professor Wang Hui, one of China’s most influential intellectuals. At the University of Gö…
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Giant swirls on the Sun - Nachricht, 07.05.2018
A team of scientists led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) and the University of Göttingen has discovered new waves of vorticity on the Sun. For forty years scientist…
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