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Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics

Research institute of the Max Planck Society, dedicated to astronomy and astrophysics with observations in the infrared, X-ray and gamma ray part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Founded in 1963 in Germany, located in Garching, near Munich.

MPE website

What is Einstein Online?

Einstein Online is a web portal with comprehensible information on Einstein's theories of relativity and their most exciting applications from the smallest particles to cosmology.

Einstein Online is provided by the

Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
(Albert-Einstein-Institut)

About Einstein Online

Includes information on our authors and contributing Institutions, and a brief history of the website.

Glossary

More than 400 entries from "absolute zero" to "XMM Newton" - whenever you see this type of link on an Einstein Online page, it'll take you to an entry in our relativistic dictionary.

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