Lecture in English by Paul Salazar (Munich Public Observatory)
Friday, 10. November 2023, 8 p.m.
Volkssternwarte München, Rosenheimer Str. 145h
• Zum internationalen Tag des Planetariums am 7. Mai — 100 Jahre Planetarium 2023–2025 •
Event in English · Fragen und Diskussion auch auf Deutsch möglich
Sunday, 07 May 2023, 7:30 p.m.
Venue: Volkssternwarte München, Rosenheimer Str. 145h, 81671 München
On the occasion of the new International Day of Planetariums on May 7, an exclusive all-European livestream, organized and hosted by Planetarium Hamburg together with ESA and IPS – soon celebrating the 100th anniversary of the invention of the planetarium in Jena and Munich – featuring ESA mission heads, presenting the JUICE mission and its objectives.
Lecture in English by
Prof. Dr. Viatcheslav Mukhanov (Arnold Sommerfeld Center for Theoretical Physics, LMU München) – Max Planck Medal 2015
Friday, 28 April 2023, 8 p.m.
Venue: Volkssternwarte München, Rosenheimer Str. 145h
„I will talk about how the precision measurements of Cosmic Microwave Background radiation discovered by Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson in 1964 allowed us to prove the quantum origin of galaxies and their clusters.“ – V. Mukhanov
Boris Lohner (Munich Public Observatory)
Tuesday, 14 March 2023, 7:30 p.m.
Venue: Volkssternwarte München, Rosenheimer Str. 145h
Explanations of the twin paradox sometimes give the impression that special relativity is defective and that this „defect“ requires general relativity to be „repaired“ – or give the impression that time dilation is not real but a mere effect of observation. In this talk it is shown how the twin paradox can be resolved in a consistent way while staying within special relativity.
Lecture in English by Paul Salazar (Munich Public Observatory)
Friday, 12 May 2023, 8 p.m.
Volkssternwarte München, Rosenheimer Str. 145h
Mars has fascinated humankind for centuries, including the exciting idea that there might be life on Mars…
SOLD OUT / LONG WAITING LIST: Es gibt aber noch viele freie Plätze für die deutsche Version am Fr. 23. Juni! Auch kostenloser Tausch noch möglich!
Paul Salazar (Munich Public Observatory)
Friday, 16 December 2022, 8 p.m.
Volkssternwarte München, Rosenheimer Str. 145h
Apollo 17, the last flight to the moon, had lift-off from Earth on Dec. 7 and, back from moon, splashed down on Dec. 19.
Let us celebrate this historic date with a review of the Apollo missions.
by Ioannis Kamaretsos, PhD (Munich Public Observatory)
Monday, 31 October 2022, 7:30 p.m.
Volkssternwarte München, Rosenheimer Str. 145h
Can you tell the difference between an asteroid and a potato?
How about a supernova remnant and a jellyfish?
In this presentation I will trick your visual perception of celestial objects, while giving an insight into their true nature.
Costumes welcome! +++ EVENT IS FULLY BOOKED. NO SEATS LEFT. +++
Prof. Dr. Sherry Suyu (TU München, Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Garching)
Friday, 21 October 2022, 8 p.m.
Volkssternwarte München, Rosenheimer Str. 145h
In his lifetime, Herschel built and used the heretofore biggest telescopes in the world to measure the Milky way galaxy and to chart thousands of faint nebulae, then unknown to be galaxies in their own right. Today we use those distant galaxies, some of which had first been seen by Herschel, as telescopes themselves – the biggest ones to date and possibly forever – to observe space and time even beyond the pre-relativistic barriers. 200 years from galaxies in telescopes to galaxies as telescopes!
Wednesday, 04 May 2022, 7 p.m. (please note the early beginning at 7:00 p.m.!)
at Volkssternwarte München, Rosenheimer Str. 145h
A lecture on dark matter and dark energy – the known unknowns of the universe. A mystery topic out of the ordinary, and a lecture out of turn on a Wednesday at 7 p.m. – Dr. D.C. Hooper will join the Neutrino Cosmology Day at TUM on 6 May, and we are very glad that a talk could be arranged at Volkssternwarte two nights before. For a description of the talk and background information on the lecturer please see below.
Advance ticket booking required (limited number of seats).
Friday, 03 June 2022, 8 p.m.
Volkssternwarte München, Rosenheimer Str. 145h
It’s been 50 years since humankind set foot on the Moon, and now there is a great deal of interest in returning to the Moon. The NASA Artemis missions are a series of human-crewed trips to start building a space platform that will orbit the Moon, and a permanently inhabited base on the Moon. This lecture will highlight the Artemis missions and the plan to learn about living on the Moon as a stepping stone to get to Mars, to develop our understanding and experience of how we humans can exist elsewhere in the Solar System.