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Radio astronomy

Travel – night work – clouds. Astronomers struggle with obstacles. We want to overcome these with a new observation station. A radio telescope is actually nothing more than an optical telescope. It only works at...

Lecture evening at the observatory

More than 50 years ago, men flew to the moon. This is repeatedly questioned and spread as a so-called conspiracy and moon landing hoax. For one of the most important events in world history, astrophysicist and space...

A Wolf-Rayet star in the nebula

The Crescent Nebula in the constellation of Cygnus is a beautiful summer object. The source of this emission nebula, which is around 4,700 light years away, is its central Wolf-Rayet star WR137. This massive star is...

Movie night at the observatory

The Schnörringen Observatory invites you to a movie screening. As part of a series of events on the subject of space travel, we will be showing an exciting documentary on the subject of the moon landing on a cozy film...