Café & Kosmos

Café & Kosmos - Talk with the scientists: The event series Café & Kosmos is engaged with current research questions "out of the universe," including the Big Bang, string theory, dark energy, dark matter, and many other topics.

These discussion rounds take place once per month, normally on a Tuesday evening at the Muffatwerk or at the Münchner Volkshochschule.

The organizers of Café & Kosmos are research institutions in Munich and Garching: the Excellence Cluster ORIGINS, the Max Planck Institute for Physics, the MPI for Astrophysics,  the MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics, and the SFB 1258 (Neutrinos, Dark Matter, Messengers) at the Technical University of Munich.

Vorbereitung eines Kristalldetektors für das CRESST-Experiment (Foto: T. Dettlaff/MPP)

Small and sensitive: Crystals for the dark matter search

Café and Kosmos on November 3, 2020

This event will be in German language.

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(Bild: ESO)

The mystery of neutron stars

Café & Kosmos on September 22, 2020

Neutron stars are probably the most astounding objects in the universe. They are the remnants of supernova explosions. The core of a star collapses under its own gravity thereby squeezing matter in such a way that single atomic nuclei are solved in a…

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A deep look into the hot universe

Café & Kosmos on June 23, 2020

Das eROSITA-Röntgenteleskop liefert den Astronomen die schärfste und detaillierteste Ansicht des heißen Universums, die es je gab. Gebaut am Max-Planck-Institut für Extraterrestrische Physik in Garching und gestartet im Juli 2019 an Bord einer…

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