es2423 — Organisation Release
How do you recognise colliding giants? Kosmisches Kino on 12. December
11 November 2024
Before the end of the year, join us once again for the Kosmische Kino series. On 12 December, Dr. Ludwig Böss will show you the spectacular gravity dance of galaxies clusters.
When you walk around on a cold December night with clear sky, you can see our home galaxy, the Milky Way. A band of stars stretching above you. Our galaxy is a collection of 200 billion stars and belongs to a group of galaxies that lies in a huge, empty region of the universe. It is just a small part of the cosmic web, a large network of galaxies and voids. At the nodes of this web, particularly large numbers of galaxies accumulate in clusters, attracting each other through their gravity, and dance around each other and collide. In the process, shock waves of heated gas spread through intergalactic space. They can be observed in the frequency range of radio waves. The dance of galaxies and the propagation of shock waves are processes that take many billions of years. When we look into the depths of space with telescopes, we only see snapshots. However, computer simulations make it possible to calculate and visualise their motion in time. They are breathing life into the still images and help us understand the cosmic movements.
In this Kosmisches Kino, Ludwig Böss from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich (LMU) will guide us away from the cold winter nights and through the hot atmospheres of these cosmic giants. Book your ticket now and watch galaxies dancing on the planetarium dome, learn about colliding galaxies and see how the afterglow of their collisions form spectacular, arched structures at the edges of galaxy clusters.
Kosmisches Kino is a series of events organised by the Exzellenzcluster ORIGINS in cooperation with ESO Supernova. The event on 12 December 2024 will take place in German. There will be no translation. The event starts at 19:00, but the ESO Supernova exibition will already be open from 18:30.
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| Release No.: | es2423 |
