KIS expert comments on a BC solar activity spike in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
On 2025-Feb-21, published an article “Fossil witnesses of a wild sun” highlighting that more than 14 thousand years ago, there was a solar storm so…
KIS expert comments on a role of picoflare jets in solar wind formation in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
On 2025-Feb-21, published an article highlighting potential links between small-scale structures on the solar surface and properties of the solar wind…
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The stability of sunspots: 400-year-old mystery now solved by astrophysicists at the Freiburg Institute of Solar Physics (KIS)
Sunspots are the most striking phenomenon of the solar magnetic field. After the invention of the telescope early in the 17th century, the Italian…
Researcher at the Freiburg Institute of Solar Physics (KIS) receives ERC Advanced Grant
The European Research Council (ERC) has honoured the outstanding research of PD Dr Petri Käpylä with an ERC Advanced Grant for the NeoCon project. The…
First solar observations with unique instrument at the world's largest solar telescope
The Institut für Sonnenphysik (KIS) located in Freiburg Germany has installed a high-precision measuring instrument for the world's largest solar…
KIS in ARD news in prime time
On the Christmas eve, 2024-Dec-24, Parker Solar Probe had a closest Sun encounter; KIS scientist, Gregory Fleishman, commented on that in the main…
New DFG proposal funded at the Solar Magnetism group
The German Science Foundation (DFG) has recently funded a proposal MIRACLE: Magnetic Interactions Releasing Acceleration in Coronal-flaring Loop…
Level 2 data products for the Chromospheric Telescope (ChroTel)
We have integrated Level 2 data products for the Chromospheric Telescope (ChroTel) into the SDC data archive, including: Intensity-corrected…
Astro Lab in Ancient Solar Observatory on Schauinsland
For the first time since 2019, the Astronomical Lab Experiment was carried out in the ancient Solar Observatory on Schauinsland.