The families Spaich & Maderner from Mössingen and Mengen donated the complete observatory of Dr. Friedebert Maderner to the STScI. The first-class ensemble of several lens and reflector telescopes as well as the...
With the homeland cheque from the state government we bought a 3.5-metre dome for the SchoolLab. Fortunately, Peter Peisker from Peisker Logistik GmbH took over the transport of the two dome halves from Baden-Baden...
For the unbureaucratic promotion of projects of local associations and initiatives, which concern themselves with homeland, the Ministry for homeland, communal, building and equalization of the province North Rhine...
At our first public event, which was not even announced, we were literally overwhelmed by visitors. Around 50 students, teachers and other visitors followed this year’s lunar eclipse on 27 July. The STScI...
The STScI receives 58,000 euros from the Hans Hermann Voss Foundation in Wipperfürth. This makes it possible to equip the SchoolLab in particular with sophisticated instruments and protective facilities. These include...
Gibt es außerirdisches Leben auf einer „zweiten Erde“ in einem anderen Sternsystem? Gibt es dort vielleicht sogar intelligentes Leben? Und wenn ja, können wir Kontakt aufnehmen? Mit der Entdeckung extrasolarer Planeten...
Friday the 13th is not always an unlucky day! The STScI initiator and DLR space manager Dr. Thomas Eversberg invited students from the school network Astronomy Oberberg to meet the future commander of the International...
Prof. Dr. Wolfhard Schlosser from the Ruhr-University Bochum is a member of the initiative group STScI e. V. and chief astronomer responsible for the investigation of the Nebra Sky Disk. He has officially declared our...
Wissenschaft muss nicht etwas für Profiastronomen bleiben – dank wachsender Kenntnisse bei Amateuren und erschwinglich er Instrumente können auch Amateure weit vorne mitmischen. Echelle-Spektrografen eröffnen...
When a star explodes in the sky, its brightness increases. But we still do not know what happened and why. Only with spectroscopy were astronomers able to understand such events. It provides all our knowledge of the...
