International Space Science Institute (ISSI)

🌟 We are delighted to announce that Prof. Dr. Willy Benz has accepted to renew his term as Chair of the ISSI Board of Trustees! Read more about Willy and his remarkable career: www.issibern.ch/willy-benz-r... #ISSI #SpaceScience #EarthScience #Exoplanets #IAU #CHEOPS #Bern 🔭

PRESS RELEASE: 🪐 Planetary systems come in two families, and the host star decides which one is born. An ISSI International Team led by Diederik Kruijssen published their research out now in Nature Astronomy 👇 www.issibern.ch/planetary-sy... #Exoplanets #Astronomy #PlanetaryScience

PRESS RELEASE: 🪐 Planetary systems come in two families, and the host star decides which one is born. An ISSI International Team led by Diederik Kruijssen published their research out now in Nature Astronomy 👇 www.issibern.ch/planetary-sy... #Exoplanets #Astronomy #PlanetaryScience

At ISSI, we like to think that our doors are open to some of the sharpest minds in space science and, as it turns out, to a bit of crayon-wielding creativity too. 🖍️🔭 See what happens when world-class research meets a more colourful kind of curiosity: www.issibern.ch/where-nobel-... 💙

This ISSI Team studies how small-scale flux ropes erupt in the solar corona and propagate into the heliosphere. Using Parker Solar Probe, Solar Orbiter, WIND, STEREO & SDO data plus simulations, they trace these structures from Sun to interplanetary space. ☀️ 🔭🛰️ ➡️ teams.issibern.ch/magneticflux...

☕ Coffee-break read for scientists Astronauts have the Overview effect. Aquanauts have the Underview effect. What about the rest of us? This new ISSI piece argues that researchers have a version of their own… ⏱ About 7 minutes, ~ one cup. 👉 www.issibern.ch/the-overview... #InnerviewEffect 🔭

🌌 The Next Frontier: Life Beyond Earth From Europa's hidden oceans to Titan's lakes and exoplanets that may one day show signs of life: Svetlana Berdyugina explores humanity's oldest questions with tomorrow's tools. 🗓️ Thu, 1 Oct, 18:15 CEST 📍 ISSIBern 📡 www.issibern.ch/pro-issi-tal... #ProISSITalk

☕ Coffee-break read for scientists Astronauts have the Overview effect. Aquanauts have the Underview effect. What about the rest of us? This new ISSI piece argues that researchers have a version of their own… ⏱ About 7 minutes, ~ one cup. 👉 www.issibern.ch/the-overview... #InnerviewEffect 🔭

The Moon 🌔 Past, Present & Future ...come join us for the next Astronomy on Tap ⨉ ISSI event ! 📍Stellwerk Bern 🕗 Wednesday, 30. September • 19:00 - 22:00 🧑‍🚀 Claire Nichols, Guido Schwarz, and Andreas Riedo Click here for the free entry: www.eventbrite.ch/e/astronomy-...

Did you miss the webinar on "High Resolution Mapping of Trace Gas Super-Emitters with Non-Atmospheric Spaceborne Instruments 🛰️" with Luis Guanter? Find the recording here. youtu.be/Z-Gky-wNZrY

🛰️ Satellites built to study land and minerals are turning out to be surprisingly sharp detectors of methane, CO₂, and other pollutant plumes. Join the webinar with Luis Guanter (Univ. Politècnica de València) to find out how. 🔭 🗓️ Thu, 24 Sept, 17h CEST | 11h EDT ➡️ www.issibern.ch/high-resolut...

Anyway, this paper is (sequentially) the first of a ten-paper collection at Space Science Reviews. The paper is free to access, read, and download: link.springer.com/article/10.1... And you can find the entire collection (so far) here: link.springer.com/collections/...

I said I'd do a thread about my new Space Science Reviews paper, so here it is! This is part of a collection of papers arising from a meeting at the International Space Science Institute in Bern in 2024: a workshop to better understand rocky extrasolar planets. A 🧵:

Call for the 2027 Johannes Geiss Fellowship! Apply by October 9, 2026 for the opportunity to conduct independent research (Astrophysics, Heliophysics, Planetary or Earth Sciences) in Bern, Switzerland. Details: www.issibern.ch/jgf-applicat... #SpaceScienceOpportunity #JGF #ISSI 🔭

At ISSI, we like to think that our doors are open to some of the sharpest minds in space science and, as it turns out, to a bit of crayon-wielding creativity too. 🖍️🔭 See what happens when world-class research meets a more colourful kind of curiosity: www.issibern.ch/where-nobel-... 💙

While @unep.org released their report today, the newest issue of SPATIUM, authored by @benpoulter.bsky.social and edited by @fabiocrameri.ch, focusses on #EarthObservation in the Era of #ClimateOvershoot. 📖 Read the full issue: www.issibern.ch/spatium @sparkclimate.bsky.social #ClimateSky

ISSI Team #644 is zooming in on the aurora. Literally. Led by Larry Kepko & Sara Gasparini, the team is unpacking mesoscale magnetosphere-ionosphere coupling. Read more about the team's work: lnkd.in/e72dw2sg

While @unep.org released their report today, the newest issue of SPATIUM, authored by @benpoulter.bsky.social and edited by @fabiocrameri.ch, focusses on #EarthObservation in the Era of #ClimateOvershoot. 📖 Read the full issue: www.issibern.ch/spatium @sparkclimate.bsky.social #ClimateSky

We are hiring! The International Space Science Institute (ISSI) invites applications for a staff position of Accountant (60%) We are seeking a motivated professional to take the role of Accountant, asap and ideally no later than November 1st, 2026. #JobPosting ➡️ www.issibern.ch/who-we-are/s...

In our latest #ISSIcast, we bring you face-to-face with Dr. Colleen Golja. Colleen takes us from the discovery of the #ozone hole to the Montreal Protocol. She also tells us what she has loved most about her second stay in Bern... 🎥 Watch here: youtu.be/f7iu4vXlZv0 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

The "global average sea-level rise" number everyone quotes is almost useless if you actually live on a coast. New review led by Anny Cazenave (geodesist, altimetry pioneer, former ISSI Director) shows local sea level is driven by… 🧵👇 www.issibern.ch/your-coast-h...

The "global average sea-level rise" number everyone quotes is almost useless if you actually live on a coast. New review led by Anny Cazenave (geodesist, altimetry pioneer, former ISSI Director) shows local sea level is driven by… 🧵👇 www.issibern.ch/your-coast-h...

In our latest #ISSIcast, we bring you face-to-face with Dr. Colleen Golja. Colleen takes us from the discovery of the #ozone hole to the Montreal Protocol. She also tells us what she has loved most about her second stay in Bern... 🎥 Watch here: youtu.be/f7iu4vXlZv0 @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

🌑☀️ Chasing totality in Spain On August 12, ISSI's Science Communications Intern Mathieu Marié travelled from Bern to northern Spain to witness the total solar eclipse... and the sky delivered: 👉 www.issibern.ch/my-journey-t... 🔭 #SolarEclipse #ISSIBern #SpaceScience #Eclipse2026

🌑☀️ Chasing totality in Spain On August 12, ISSI's Science Communications Intern Mathieu Marié travelled from Bern to northern Spain to witness the total solar eclipse... and the sky delivered: 👉 www.issibern.ch/my-journey-t... 🔭 #SolarEclipse #ISSIBern #SpaceScience #Eclipse2026

A team led by #unibern has used high-resolution #simulations and data from ESA’s Hera space probe to show that a single asteroid impact formed the deep depression at the south pole and the smooth, dusty surface of #mars’ moon Deimos. sohub.io/3nvx @issibern.ch @esa.int

💥 One asteroid, 320 meters wide, hitting at a 45° angle ... and it reshaped Mars' moon Deimos, carving its south-pole depression and blanketing it in dust. Read more about @raducan.bsky.social’s latest publication in @natastron.nature.com: www.issibern.ch/asteroid-imp...

☀️ 🌗🌍 The Moon is 400x smaller than the Suwebdesign's – by pure coincidence – also about 400x closer to us. Hence, they both seem to be the same size! Never stare directly at the Sun, eclipsed or not! You need certified ISO12312-2 eclipse glasses. Video by Eyeloveyou, our partner in webdesign.

Is 60 years of radiation belt physics hiding a Jackson Pollock inside a Mark Rothko? Read "Sprinkles in Disguise" decorated by our very own in-house artist Cosima-Lea Baier: lnkd.in/gCdm5zi4 #SciArt #SpaceScience 🐡🔭

Is 60 years of radiation belt physics hiding a Jackson Pollock inside a Mark Rothko? Read "Sprinkles in Disguise" decorated by our very own in-house artist Cosima-Lea Baier: lnkd.in/gCdm5zi4 #SciArt #SpaceScience 🐡🔭

What if one of the widely accepted "laws" of space weather... never actually existed? Read what the ISSI International Team led by Maria-Theresia Walach and Nithin Sivadas has been up to: www.issibern.ch/a-statistica... 🔭

Ever heard of #faculae and #swirls, or #spicules, dynamic #fibrils, #jets, #jetlets, and #campfires? These are the phenomena that ISSI International Team #604 “Small-scale eruptive events in the Sun” is studying! Read more about their project on: teams.issibern.ch/small-scalee...

Cold plasma in the Earth’s ionosphere and plasmasphere plays a critical role in near-Earth space, driving wave-particle interactions, coupling processes, and radio wave propagation. ∿ ∿ ∿ See what ISSI Working Group ‘ATIP’, led by Artem Smirnov and Fabricio Prol, is up to: collab.issibern.ch/atip/ 🔭

You search for your keys, don't find them, and assume they're lost …until they turn up in yesterday's coat. That's a false negative. Our new Highlight digs into the blind spot the field has quietly underweighted for decades 👇 www.issibern.ch/the-hidden-p... #Astrobiology #SpaceScience 🔭

Congratulations to the 33 newly selected International Teams in Space and Earth Sciences 2026 🔭 ➡️ www.issibern.ch/newly-select...

The shape of the heliosphere, the bubble formed by the solar wind as the Sun moves through the galaxy, is currently being debated – in particular the looks of its tail. The ISSI Int. Team #613 led by Marc Kornbleuth is tackling this critical problem. ☀️ More: teams.issibern.ch/particleacce... 🔭

Where does the Electron Superhalo, a faint but ever-present population of unusually energetic electrons in the solar system, come from? ☀️ ISSI Int. Team #656 led by Domenico Trotta tries to uncover exactly that. Read more: teams.issibern.ch/superhaloeni...

🔭 How do solar energetic particles travel from the Sun to Mars' surface? This week's International Team is modelling this journey - through the heliosphere & Martian atmosphere - to support future Mars missions & improve radiation risk assessment. Read more: teams.issibern.ch/solarparticl...

🔭 This ISSI Team - led by G. Thomas - is developing new techniques to homogenise large spectroscopic surveys onto a common scale – essential for studying the Milky Way as a whole (e.g. combining Northern & Southern hemisphere data). Discover more teams.issibern.ch/asteroshop/

What do the chemical abundances of distant galaxies tell us about the stars that made them? 🌌🔭 This week at #ISSI, experts including Allison Strom, Danielle Berg, Corinne Charbonnel, Brian Welch, and Antonella Nota are meeting to ponder this question! workshops.issibern.ch/distant-galaxies

While at the @eas-meeting.bsky.social we met the daughters of the great Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky, who in 1972 was awarded the @royalastrosoc.bsky.social Gold Medal. Margrit Zwicky and Franziska Pfenninger-Zwicky stopped by our stand to say their father was "absolutely delighted" by the award.

Curious about the latest discoveries and insights from Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter? Watch here the recorded webinar with Marco Velli (Space Physics in the Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences Department, UCLA, USA) youtu.be/jV8jfdSmN7Y #SolarPhysics #Sun #ParkerSolarProbe #SolarOrbiter

Join today the live webinar "Origins and Structure of the Heliosphere: Novel Discoveries and Insights from Parker Solar Probe and Solar Orbiter" with Marco Velli We start at 17h CEST | 11h EDT ➡️ www.issibern.ch/results/game...