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The goal of our events is to help students get to know the city and it's surroundings.
Also we want to bring them together to find new friends and get to know other cultures, for this we organize different events like parties, trips, sports events and many more.
We published the event with this description:
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) is famous for their large telescopes in Chile, which have creative names such as the Very Large Telescope (VLT), Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), and the sadly cancelled Overwhelmingly Large Telescope (OWL). The organization is headquartered at the Garching campus, where a few years ago they celebrated the opening of the ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Centre.
As part of this event, we will first have a guided tour through ESO Supernova's exhibition, The Living Universe, which covers the topic of life in the Universe in the broadest sense. It connects us with topics that can seem very distant and abstract by focusing on the human–Universe connection, general astronomy, life in the Universe, and how we observe the Universe using ESO facilities.
After the tour, we will watch a spectacular show (From Earth to the Universe) in the Planetarium, which is one of the largest planetariums in Germany. With state-of-the-art visualisation techniques, shows are displayed on a 360-degree dome, 14 metres in diameter. The clear, digital projection and three-dimensional astronomical database ensure a unique and immersive experience.
From Earth to the Universe
This stunning, 30-minute voyage through space and time conveys, through sparkling sights and sounds, the Universe as revealed to us by science.
Directed by the young Greek filmmaker Theofanis N. Matsopoulos, and featuring a sweeping soundtrack from Norwegian composer Johan B. Monell, viewers can revel in the splendour of the various worlds in the Solar System and the ferocity of the scorching Sun. From Earth to the Universe then leaves our home to take the audience out to the colourful birthplaces and burial grounds of stars, and still further out, beyond the Milky Way, to the unimaginable immensity of myriads of galaxies. Along the way, the audience will learn about the history of astronomy, the invention of the telescope, and today’s giant telescopes that allow us to probe ever deeper into the Universe.
