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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 (Unseen 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.
Unseen Universe
For millions of years, our view of the heavens was limited by our eyes, allowing us to see only a narrow band of electromagnetic radiation we call visible light. But now, thanks to the greatest breakthrough since the invention of the telescope, we have the technology to capture the Universe over an amazing width of the electromagnetic spectrum and beyond. We can even interlink telescopes around the world to capture data on a global scale. Unseen Universe, an exciting look at cutting-edge astronomy, explores the Universe far beyond our human senses.
A fulldome production from Evans & Sutherland, made in association with ESO and the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Unseen Universe provides a stunning visual treat as we explore the latest splendours of the heavens with a stirring score performed by the Utah Film Orchestra. It is an uplifting look at the new era of astronomy and what is yet to come.
