The Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA) is a Max Planck Institute, located in Garching, just north of Munich, Bavaria, Germany. The institute is one of many scientific research institutes belonging to the Max Planck Society.
The MPA is widely considered to be one of the leading institutions in the world for theoretical astrophysics research. According to Thomson Reuters, from 1999-2009 the Max Planck Society as a whole published more papers and accumulated more citations in the fields of physics and space science than any other research organization in the world.
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