STScI

Digitalizing the Observatory

Before it gets wet and cold outside, we continue to pursue our plans to digitize the observatory. In order to stay up to date as a place of learning and scientific institution, the three telescopes in our school lab are...

Light pollution in Schnörringen

It is easy to think that the night sky in Oberberg is very dark. And indeed, measurements show that our region is not bad by Central European standards (). However, there can be local exceptions – like in...

When Amateurs Do Research – A Memory

A few days ago, the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI) in Baltimore released a new image from the James Webb Space Telescope (see here). It shows spiral-shaped rings around the massive binary star Wolf-Rayet 140...