The contents of the exhibition are classified into ten questions, which could have a visitor in the field of astronomy. In this introduction area the visitor gets a view of how the universe is constructed. He learns that our Earth is one of nine planets of our solar system, that our Sun is a star like other thousand millions of stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way, which is togehter with thousands of millions other galaxies part of yet greater structures of the universe. Showcase with historical instruments to determine the position of stars. The light of the stars comes to us from different directions and distances with variing intensity.
Stars have a certain position, distance and brightness.
On colors, flares and flashes - the beginnings of astrophysics Since the middle of the 19th century the quantity and quality of the starlight changed to an astrophysical object of research. By dispersion of starlight in spectral components you can get information about material composition and movements of stars. Stars of variing brightness came into the astronomers' center of interest. Several variing stars serve as milestones in the measuring of distances in the universe. All stars are born, live millions or thousands of millions of years and die.