When and how did the universe come into being? Is there life on other worlds? What is the destiny of the stars and our sun? Practically the entire realm of astronomical research can be condensed within the subject of these questions.
One approach to a solution to these questions is the study or research concerning the origin and development of entire galaxies and of stars and planets. The Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) deals with the formulation of questions which unfold from the cosmos in its entirety down to atomic processes.
While one field of research at the AIP is dealing with magnetic fields and their all-pervasiveness in the universe, another is at work on extra-galactic objects and processes which affect the behavior of galaxies and of galaxy clusters.
The AIP has two locations: the Telegrafenberg Hill, with the Einstein tower and its Great Refractor, and the Babelsberg observatory.
Address:
Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP)
An der Sternwarte 16
14482 Potsdam
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