Live Babelsberg Starry Night at 18th March 2025
Deep images of dark sections of the sky with long exposure times reveal thousands of galaxies, as here in this image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, taken by the MUSE instrument.
Credit: ESO/MUSE HUDF collaborationOn Tuesday, 18 March 2025, from 7.15 pm, the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP) invites you to a Babelsberg Starry Night live on the Babelsberg campus of the AIP. Dr Tanya Urrutia will give a lecture on the topic ‘Hubble & Webb Deep Fields – Images of the Young Universe’. Please note that the lecture will be given in German.
In 1995, a small revolution in extragalactic astronomy began with the publication of the Hubble Deep Fields. The ‘deep’ observations with very long exposure times in seemingly empty regions of the sky enabled us to look deep into the past of our universe and thus draw statistical conclusions about the development of galaxies. Today, the James Webb Telescope complements the Hubble optical images in the infrared. In her lecture, Tanya Urrutia will present these ‘deep’ images, her own work on complementary spectra with the MUSE instrument at the Very Large Telescope in Chile and give an outlook on future research in this field.
After the talk, we offer a tour over the AIP research campus Babelsberg. If the sight is clear, it will also be possible to take a look through one of our historical reflecting telescopes.
We look forward to your visit!
Free entry, no previous registration necessary.
Time: Tuesday, 18 March 2025, 7:15 pm
Location: Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), An der Sternwarte 16, 14482 Potsdam, conference room in Maria-Margaretha-Kirch-Haus
Further information
The next dates for live Babelsberg Starry Nights are available here:
https://www.aip.de/en/pr/public-events/
Further online lectures of the virtual Babelsberg Starry Nights are available at https://www.aip.de/babelsberger-sternennaechte
and via the YouTube channels "Urknall, Weltall und das Leben" (Big Bang, Universe and Life) and "videowissen" and can be viewed afterwards at any time.
Images
Deep images of dark sections of the sky with long exposure times reveal thousands of galaxies, as here in this image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, taken by the MUSE instrument.
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