Potsdam has announced the AIP as filming location of the month December during the Potsdam Year of the Film 2011. In 1930, parts of the movie "Stürme über dem Montblanc" (Stormy Montblanc) were filmed at AIP.

Mary Williams, a scientist at AIP, has been awarded the science and engineering Brandenburg Young Scientist Prize for her discovery and research of a new stream of stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way called the “Aquarius Stream”. The post-doctoral prize comes with a cash award of 20,000 euro.

Scientists in Potsdam are preparing for the start of ESA’s “Solar Orbiter” mission.

Scientists from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) have discovered two new brown dwarfs at estimated distances of only 15 and 18 light years from the Sun.

6 - 8 July 2011, Workshop at AIP

40 young researches visited summer school at AIP.

The first scientific article about sunspots was published 400 years ago on 23 June 1611. Scientists of the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) and the University Oulu in Finland are now reconstructing tens of thousands of sunspots: the solar activity over four centuries. Looking back on history, they also want to understand better the future of the activity of the Sun.

Astrophysicists find imprints of fast rotating massive stars in the bulge of our galaxy.

Today, the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam officially announced its new name during a ceremonial act with invited guests and staff.

innoFSPEC Potsdam – centre of innovation competence innoFSPEC receives "Location 2011 in the Country of Ideas" award. The ceremonial act, which is coupled to a public event, took place at AIP during the "Girls’ Day 2011".

On Monday April 11, 2011, the Astrophysical Institute Potsdam honors its long-time colleague Horst Künzel with a festive colloquium on the occasion of his 90th birthday.

Tidal effects change the concept of the habitable zone.

Astrophysicists find new remnants of a neighbouring galaxy in our own galaxy.