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…
DFG application from the Solar Magnetism research group approved
The German Science Foundation (DFG) has approved on 3. June 2024 a proposal by Dr. Juan Manuel Borrero (PI) and Dr. Ivan Milic (Co-PI) from the Solar…
VTF integration started at DKIST on Maui/Hawaii (early January 2024)
At the beginning of 2024, the VTF team was able to fly to Maui/Hawaii and start integrating the VTF into the DKIST telescope.
VTF arrives in Maui/Hawaii - a long journey comes to an end....
The largest project at our institute has entered its final phase. The KIS has developed and built a high-precision measuring instrument for the new 4m…
Eckart Lilienthal visits German Solar Observatory on Tenerife
The head of Department 711 (Universe and Matter) of the BMBF, which is responsible for KIS, visited the Observatorio del Teide on 26 September 2023.