*** 75th Anniversary of the Munich Public Observatory ***
*** 200th Death Anniversary of W. Herschel ***
Herschel’s Legacy: Breaking Barriers of the Heavens – On gravitational lensing
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!