Virtual journey to distant galaxies on 27 December 2022

Between the years, the Hessian Cluster Project ELEMENTS together with the TU Darmstadt invites you again to a very special kind of walk: We will explore the universe in a digital live stream on Tuesday, 27 December 2022, starting at 7:30 pm!

TU Darmstadt inaugurates inner courtyard and clock tower dome

On 23 March 2022, the TU officially opened the newly designed eastern courtyard of the Old Main Building to the public. At the same time, the observatory on top of the clock tower on Hochschulstraße was inaugurated. The two highlights now enrich the campus city centre and cityscape and invite you to take a little tour between art, architecture and nature.

An observatory enriches teaching in the Department of Physics at TU Darmstadt

The way to the stars leads through an inconspicuous door in the panelling of the lecture hall in the Uhrturm building, and then up a steep grid staircase to a hatch in the ceiling. Anyone who climbs through it will find themselves in front of TU's observatory, which is surrounded by the protective glass cube on top of the tower. Four remote-controlled telescopes are aimed up into the sky, observing the sun by day and clusters of stars, nebulae and galaxies by night. The images and data that are recorded are used in lab courses and teaching in the Department of Physics.