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• Lehre Astro Sommer-Semester 2024

• Universe on tour

"Universe on Tour" in Jena

Mittwoch 31.5. bis Freitag 2.6. jeweils 9 bis 22 Uhr, Samstag 3.6. von 10 bis 22 Uhr und Sonntag 4.6. von 10 bis 18 Uhr

Standort: Theatervorplatz Jena (Engelplatz / Schillergäßchen)

• Mi. bis Fr. 9h–20h, Sa. 10h–22h, So. 10h–18h im Planetariumszelt: jeweils zur vollen und halben Stunde ein Planetariumsprogramm zur Vorstellung der Astronomie mit Einblicken in aktuelle Entwicklungen astronomischer Forschung und neusten Ergebnissen aus der Region.
• um 20h und 20:45h jeweils 30 Minuten Vortrag plus Diskussion, Eintritt frei
• Ausstellung zur Astronomie in einem zweiten Zelt
• zudem Mi–Sa 9:30h–18h bei gutem Wetter: Beobachtung der Sonne und ggf. Sonnenflecken mit einem Telementor mit Projektionsschirm auf dem Theatervorplatz

Vortragsprogramm

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Mittwoch, 31.5.:

20:00h Dr. Markus Mugrauer , Astrophysikalisches Institut FSU Jena: Astronomische Forschung vor den Toren Jenas an der Universitäts-Sternwarte in Großschwabhausen

20:45h Prof. Dr. Timo Mappes , D.O.M. Jena: Erlebniswelt der Optik: Das Deutsche Optische Museum (D.O.M.)

Donnerstag, 1.6.:

20:00h Dr. Harald Mutschke , Astrophysikalisches Institut FSU Jena: Astro-Mineralogie

20:45h Prof. Dr. Matthias Hoeft , Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg: Radioastronomie: Die Vermessung von vier Millionen schwarzen Löchern

Freitag, 2.6.:

20:00h Dr. Veronika Schaffenroth , Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg: Das Leben der Sterne

20:45h Dr. Sebastian Schmidl, Physikalisch-Astronomische-Fakultät, FSU Jena: Gammastrahlenbursts: Signale explodierender Sterne aus fernen Galaxien

Samstag, 3.6.:

20:00h Prof. Dr. Ralph Neuhäuser , Astrophysikalisches Institut FSU Jena: Astronomie transdisziplinär – historische Beobachtungen als Schlüssel für die moderne Astrophysik

20:45h Dr. Eike Guenther , Thüringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg: Planeten anderer Sterne, die merkwürdigen Geschwister der Erde

Universe on Tour

Das war die roadshow "universe on tour".

Seit Anfang Mai tourte das mobile Planetarium durch Deutschland. Das Ziel: Menschen mit und ohne direkten Bezug zur Astrophysik über die aktuellen wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse informieren. Knapp 60.000 Besucherinnen und Besucher konnten Astronomie an 15 verschiedenen Orten bundesweit hautnah erleben.

Eindrücke der Roadshow

© Arno Riffeser

© BMBF/ Wissenschaftsjahr. Foto: Uwe Voelkner, bundesfoto

© Uwe Völkner

© Fohlmeister

© Bundesfoto

© Uwe Völker

  "Eine wirklich tolle Veranstaltung und ein schönes Erlebnis"

"Die Kinder waren begeistert"

"Unglaublich, wie winzig man doch ist."

- Besuchende der Roadshow

"Licht aus, Sterne an!"

...hieß es ab dem 10. Mai 2023, als „Universe on Tour“ in Rostock ihr Debut feierte. Von Beginn an herrschte große Vorfreude auf die einzelnen Stationen. An jeder Station schauten sich zahlreiche Besucherinnen und Besucher die 360-Grad-Show im Planetariumszelt und die begleitende Ausstellung an, hörten Vorträge oder Lesungen und nahmen an Light Walks teil. In Hofheim im Taunus war auch Bundesforschungsministerin Bettina Stark-Watzinger unter den Besucherinnen. 

"Licht aus, Sterne an!"

© BMBF/Hans-Joachim Rickel

Programm für Groß und Klein

An jedem Standort warteten neue Programmpunkte auf die Interessierten. 55 Vorträge unterschiedlichster wissenschaftlicher Institutionen, Forschungszentren und Sternwarten informierten über spannende Fakten zum Universum und seiner Entdeckung. Auch die Förderprojekte brachten einige Attraktionen mit: So ging in München das Projekt „Mars findet Stadt“ an den Start und in Oldenburg feierte das „Tiny Observatorium“ seinen Auftakt. In Heidelberg teilte sich die MS Wissenschaft den Standort und seine Besucherinnen und Besucher mit der Roadshow.

Die Partner der Roadshow brachten ein Programm für die ganze Familie mit. Für die kleinen Gäste war vor allem die Maggelan-Lesung mit Maren Hasenjäger in Bielefeld ein Highlight. Auch Kinder der Kita „Kleine Astronauten“ waren zu Gast. Die Lesungen aus der Kinderbuchreihe „Der kleine Major Tom“ mit Dr. Bernd Flessner begeisterten Jung und Alt in München und Potsdam für die Abenteuer von Tom und seinen Freunden.

                   "Eine sehr gute Präsentation, die es geschafft hat,                                     ein komplexes Thema allen einfach zu erklären."                

- Presse-Stimme aus Oldenburg 

Erfolg mit und durch unsere Partner

Der große Erfolg der mobilen Planetariumsshow ist allen fleißigen Helfenden und der Vielzahl an lokalen Partnern zu verdanken. Forschende zeigten, wie sie am jeweiligen Standort zur Beantwortung der großen Fragen des Universums beitragen. So entstand an jedem Standort ein einzigartiges und abwechslungsreiches Programm inklusive Lesungen, Vorträgen, Workshops und Mitmach-Aktionen.

Nachtlicht-BüHNE

Ein treuer Begleiter der Roadshow war das Citizen-Science-Projekt „Nachtlicht-BüHNE“ . Die Begleitausstellung lud an allen Tourstopps zu einem einstündigen Light-Walk ein, der den Teilnehmenden die unterschiedlichen Arten von Lichtverschmutzung vorstellte und wie sie diese in der zugehörigen App erfassen können. Das Bürgerforschungsprojekt startete offiziell Anfang September. Bis Ende Oktober konnte mitgeforscht und die regionale Lichtverschmutzung erfasst werden.

Die Roadshow wurde durch ein Netzwerk aus starken lokalen Partnern unterstützt. Sie alle lieferten vor Ort spannende Einblicke in die Forschung zum Weltall.

Vom Auftakt in Rostock ging es über Potsdam, Hoyerswerda, Jena, Göttingen, Fulda, Bamberg, München, Reutlingen, Heidelberg, Hofheim und Bonn sowie Dortmund bis nach Oldenburg und Bielefeld, wo die Roadshow ihr Ende feierte. Die gesamte Tour umfasste damit 15 Standorte und eine Strecke von weit mehr als 2000 Kilometern.

Eine ausführliche Berichterstattung bieten die regionale Presse der jeweiligen Standorte sowie die überregionalen Medien: Zeit Online ,  Süddeutsche Zeitung , n-tv , stern TV,  SAT.1 , sowie Beiträge der WDR-Lokalzeit, z.B. in Dortmund oder Bielefeld .

Weiteres Pressematerial zur Roadshow finden Sie in unserem Pressebereich .

Hier finden Sie ein paar schöne Einträge in unser Gästebuch. Klicken Sie sich durch.

"Danke für die tolle Vorstellung!"

"Eine wirklich tolle Veranstaltung und ein schönes Erlebnis - Martin und Andrea"

"EG-Bamberg sagt DANKE! Schöne, informative und kreative Ausstellung!"

"Ich fand es sehr cool und interessant. Ich habe viel gelernt. - Julia 2023"

"Man sieht, das hier viel LIEBE drin steckt. Danke für Eure Arbeit. - Stefanie, Enrico, Tatjana"

"DANKEschön für die interessante Show! Schön, dass ihr einen Stopp in Bamberg eingelegt habt!"

"Greetings from Italy and France! - Marti und Mathi"

"Wir wissen heute mehr über das Universum als jemals zuvor in der Menschheitsgeschichte. Wie wir zu diesen Erkenntnissen kommen, zeigt unser mobiles Planetarium. Damit kann man durch das Universum fliegen und gelangt dorthin, wo wir sonst nie hinkommen."

-  Stefan Gotthold Planetarium Berlin

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Celebrating a Century of Visual Wonders.

“Universe on Tour”: Mobile planetarium in 15 German cities

• Daniela Bolz
• May 16, 2023

The road show visualized by the Planetarium Berlin Foundation will be touring from May 10, 2023 “Universe on Tour” of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) through Germany. In a mobile planetarium and an accompanying exhibition, visitors experience visitors on a fascinating journey into space. Admission is free. As part of the “Science Year 2023 – Our Universe”, young and old have the opportunity to visit a mobile planetarium from May 10, 2023 and into the fascination of space immerse yourself – free of charge and in 15 German cities. The first stop of the roadshow is Rostock. The road show shows in fascinating 360° programs in the dome of the mobile planetarium “Universe on Tour” the development of human observation of the sky – from the view into the sky with the naked eye to the invention of the telescope and today’s astronomy. One Accompanying exhibition informs about the importance of light as an information carrier as well as the Impact of light pollution on environment, population and astronomy. With hands-on activities How to the Citizen Science Project »Night Light STAGE« meet interested citizens and Citizens on researchers.

The Planetarium Berlin Foundation visualizes the planetarium program at each of the locations integrates the local research institutions and their current research results as part of an ever-changing program in the mobile dome. “I’m really looking forward, that with “Universe on Tour” we also reach people who otherwise have no planetarium in their area bring our wonderful cosmos closer with impressive 360° programs”, so Tim Florian Horn, Board Member of the Planetarium Berlin Foundation.

The “Universe on Tour” road show is a joint project of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in cooperation with the Society of German-speaking Planetariums e.V., the Planetarium Berlin Foundation, the Astronomical Society, the Association of Star Friends e.V. and the House of Astronomy under the umbrella of the “Science Year 2023 – Our Universe” of the BMBF. With exhibitions, school campaigns and hands-on offers, it invites you Year of Science Children and adults to an exchange with science and research around around the universe.

You can find further information and an overview of all locations of the roadshow until September at https://www.wissenschaftsjahr.de/2023/universe-on-tour

This information is available here as a PDF (German) download .

Universe on tour

The fascinating show invites you on a journey into space – from the observation of the sky with the naked eye to the invention of the telescope and today’s astronomy. An accompanying exhibition provides information on the role of light as an information carrier and shows the impact of light pollution on the environment.

In Jena, the roadshow arrives at a location with several hundred years of astronomical tradition. Already 450 years ago, Jena was a center of observation of the sky in Central Europe.

The history of Jena astronomy is closely linked to two important universal academics: The university observatory located in Schillergäßchen was built under the direction of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and the revolving observation tower is an annex to Friedrich Schiller’s garden house.

Our member Eike Günther will give a lecture on Saturday, 03.06. at 20.45 on the following topic: “Planets of other stars, the strange siblings of the earth”.

Find more information here .

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Virtual discovery tours

What do the University Main Buildng or the library look like from the inside? What does the Saale city actually offer me? And what exactly can I study at Friedrich Schiller University Jena? Join us on a journey of discovery – with   many 360 degree tours or online adventure tours offered in one single app . Have fun!

Online discovery tours with free app

Our digital scavenger hunt and the free Actionbound app External link are great ways to discover the City of Jena, the University campus and our range of study options on your smartphone or tablet in the comfort of your own home or on the go. We have put together different quiz and puzzle tours for you. Follow these three simple steps to get started.

General tours: Discover the University of Jena – couch version [in English] Discover Jena as a university location - a student city tour Discovering Jena for international students [in English] Tour of the University's sports facilities Eco-friendly city rally [in English]

Discover our degree programmes:  Geography Biogeosciences Economics and Business Administration Chemistry Physics Sports Science

Follow these three simple steps to get started

General tours.

Discover the University of Jena

You will not only discover the University of Jena and the city, but also get real insider tips that will help you through your everyday student life. And the best thing is: you can do this from the comfort of your own sofa. Have fun and get started! Scan this QR code to reveal four themed sections with quiz questions:

• University hot spots - where students have free access to our wi-fi network
• Study orientation: one step at a time to the right degree programme
• Leisure time and student life in Jena
• Back to the roots: a short trip to the University's past

[in English]

• Keyword to find the tour: ‘Jena discover’
• Tour page External link

Discover Jena as a university location - a student city tour

On this tour you can explore the City of Jena - through the eyes of students! Before you start your studies, during your studies or just for the fun of it: This tour leads you through the city in an entertaining and humorous way - past classic sights and student hot spots. Can you successfully master your 'first day as a student in the city'?

[in German]

• Keyword to find the tour: ‘Jena Unistandort’

Discovering Jena for international students

This round of quizzes is aimed at explorers from all over the world. Get to know our small city better with its wonderful mix of tradition, modernity, science, technology, nature and student life. A tour through Jena and your University is hidden behind this QR code.

• Keyword to find the tour: ‘Jena international’

Tour of University's sports facilities

Would you like to explore our UNISPORT sports facilities and get to know our diverse range of sports courses and services? Then you will enjoy this discovery tour!

• Keyword to find the tour: 'Unisport Jena'

Eco-friendly city rally

This eco-friendly city rally takes you to several places in the city of Jena which offer eco-friendly transport, shopping and food. Go green!

• Keyword to find the tour: »eco Jena«

Discover our degree programmes

Studying geography in Jena

Would you like to do a puzzle while learning more about geography programmes at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena? If so, this is the right tour for you! You will have to find three typical geographical tools in the Institute of Geography buildings. Oh yeah… And you can save the world while you’re at it! Excitement all around!

• Keyword to find the tour: ‘Geographie Jena’

Studying biogeosciences in Jena

This tour will take you to another universe, where you will assist researchers and encounter magic. The whole adventure will also tell you more about studying biogeosciences in Jena. After all, biogeosciences is a really exciting subject about the world around us and makes us see things from a whole new perspective. Join us on this journey to another universe… [in German]

• Keyword to find the tour: ‘Biogeowissenschaften Jena’

Get to know the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration

Accompany a postman on his adventure through the City of Jena. His job is to pick up letters for future students from the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. Not an easy task, it seems ... Join him and get to know the city, its special features and the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration.

• Keyword to find the tour: ‘Wiwi Jena’

Studying chemistry in Jena

Chemistry is like cooking and chemists must be able to cook well - that is a saying. In this bound you can prove that you are a good cook... and therefore also a good chemist!

• Keyword to find the tour: ‘Chemie Jena’

Studying physics in Jena

How many cookies can you fit in the Jentower? How do you fly to Mars? And what do you actually need to become a physicist? Start your first virtual day in Jena and explore the world of physics. Be curious to see who you will get to know along the way.

• Keyword to find the tour: ‘Physik Jena’

Study sports in Jena

Sport is not just about going higher, faster and further. Sport is an attitude towards life and the access to a healthy and eventful life that offers you many opportunities. You can start a new phase of life by choosing to study sports science. Are you ready for it? Find out on this tour!

• Keyword to find the tour: ‘Sport Jena’

Take a 360-degree tour of the University Main Building

What does the University Main Building look like from the inside? Fancy a little stroll? Take a walk on the kulturzuhause.de External link virtual platform! Click your way through the building and use the mouse wheel to zoom in and out. The images were taken by rooom AG in collaboration with the cultur3D innovation project External link at the University of Jena / ThULB.

More 360-degree tours can be found here:

• Tour of the Botanical Garden in Jena External link
• Tour of the Thuringian University and State Library External link de
• Tour of the Saurierpfad External link
• Tour of Kunitzburg Jena External link de
• Tour of Zeiss-Planetarium Jena External link de
• Tour of Phyletische Museum External link de
• Tour of Schillers Gartenhaus External link de
• Tour of Lobdeburg Jena External link de

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Planetarium aufgebaut: auf dem theatervorplatz werden aktuelle themen der astronomie präsentiert.

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Im Rahmen des bundesweiten Projektes „Universe on Tour“ macht auch in Jena ein mobiles Planetarium Halt. Ab heute werden dort in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Bundesforschungsministerium und der Jenaer Universität aktuelle Themen der Astronomie und der Astrophysik präsentiert. Wir waren beim Aufbau des Planetariums-Zeltes am Dienstag mit dabei.

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Space Taxi Through the Sky: with James Webb, Bepi Colombo, DESIS and JUICE on a tour of discovery through the universe

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Space taxi through the sky: with James Webb, Bepi Colombo, DESIS and JUICE on a tour of discovery through the universe

Scientists are working hard worldwide on new concepts for complex telescopes; the best-known is the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) for the observation of faraway galaxies. High-precision mirrors are the foundation for state-of-the-art optical systems for purposes ranging from the investigation of the Big Bang to planetary missions in our solar system or advanced, space-based climate research. Highly accurate optics for satellite-supported remote sensing, planetary missions and Earth observation are developed and built at the Fraunhofer IOF in Jena. The presentation explains modern instrumentations for JWST, JUICE, MERTIS, EnMAP, and DESIS and adresses the newest mirror-based metallic imaging optics. Spectacular pictures of distant galaxies in the depths of space as well as high-resolution pictures of Earth will be shown.

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15 Best Things to Do in Jena (Germany)

Bulwarked by low mountains this Thuringian City is the home of one of Germany’s ten oldest universities. So it follows that many eminent literary figures, thinkers and scientists have lived or spent time here over the last 560 years. We’re talking about cultural and scientific giants like Goethe, Schiller, Nietzsche, Ernst Haeckel, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Johann Gottlieb Fichte.

But that’s leaving out the 19th-century instrument makers and opticians like Carl Zeiss and Otto Schott, whose names are still carried by international brands. For a bit of fun, a Seven Wonders of Jena was written up by Jena’s students in the 17th century. This once secret list can be an itinerary, although some of the five surviving “wonders” are a little odd.

Let’s have a look at the best things to do in Jena :

1. JenTower

Jena’s modern landmark is this 144.5-metre skyscraper built as a research facility for VEB Carl Zeiss Jena.

The tower went up in the 1970s with a design by East Germany’s foremost architect, Hermann Henselmann.

To this day the JenTower is the tallest skyscraper in the former GDR states, and its observation platform at 128 metres is open every day.

From this height you can see all of Jena its crucible of wooded hills, which are breathtaking in autumn when the leaves turn.

One floor below is the tower’s restaurant if you’d prefer to save on the fee for the observation platform and have a sit-down meal instead.

2. Zeiss-Planetarium Jena

Since you’re in the home city of Carl Zeiss you’d be remiss not to visit the planetarium.

This is the oldest planetarium in the world still in business, having first opened its doors on 18 July 1926. The building was a precursor to Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes, using a Fuller-esque metal framework for its concrete shell.

And while the venue may be historic, the planetarium uses the latest projection equipment by Carl Zeiss, with a 4096 x 4096 pixel display showing the stars and planets in awesome clarity.

Many of the shows are produced in-house and accompanied by a state-of -the-art 3D “SpatialSoundWave” system.

3. Botanischer Garten

Jena has Germany’s second oldest botanical garden, the origins of which can be followed back to 1586 with the foundation of a medicinal garden (hortus medicus). The garden adhered to Carl Linnaeus’ new taxonomical rules from 1770 and that same decade became associated with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe who helped set up the Jena Institute of Botany.

This period proved to be the garden’s apogee because it was damaged in the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt in 1806 and languished for much of the 19th century before a redesign in the 1870s.

Managed by the University of Jena, the garden now has 12,000 plants.

There’s an arboretum with 900 different tree and shrub species and wonderful displays of roses, dahlias and rhododendrons in spring and summer.

The five greenhouses contain succulents and cactuses, aquatic plants, but maybe most exciting of all is the evolution house, with ancient ferns and cycads.

4. Optical Museum Jena

If you’re wondering how Jena came to be the centre of Germany’s optical instruments industry this museum will fill you in.

You’ll get in touch with the careers of 19th-century trailblazers like Carl Zeiss, Otto Schott and Ernst Abbe and track the development of lenses over eight centuries.

The museum’s beginnings are interesting too: When Carl Zeiss was assembling microscopes in the 1800s he had a side business repairing other manufacturers’ instruments as a way of keeping up with their technological advances.

These are a now a big part of the collection.

But going back through history there’s a camera obscura, and a spectrum of magic lanterns and peep shows (in the historical sense!). You’ll also learn how eyeglasses, telescopes, microscopes and photographic lenses have evolved , and can marvel at holographs, learn about the science of colours and watch a show at the museum’s own planetarium.

5. Stadtkirche St. Michael

Jena’s main Protestant church has been at the heart of ecclesiastical life in the city for more than seven centuries.

It was built in phases from the 1380s and once linked with a Cistercian monastery from the High Middle Ages.

The choir came first, at the end of the 14th century, while the nave wouldn’t be started until 1474 and was completed in 1557. Martin Luther preached at this church many times between 1524 and 1529, and the pulpit he used is still intact.

There’s a bronze grave epitaph for Luther, cast in 1549 by a local bell founder using the portrait by Lucas Cranach the Elder.

One of Jena’s Seven Wonders is also here: Known as Ara, this is a 3.5-metre-high vaulted passageway under the altar, which once led to the Cistercian monastery next door.

6. Fuchsturm

Also one of the Seven Wonders of Jena, the Fuchsturm (Fox Tower) is the keep of a medieval castle on the slopes of the 400-metre Hausberg mountain overlooking the city from the east.

In the 10th century this castle was the easternmost Ottonian court, and was owned by a succession of ministeriales, powerful nobles whose families had humble histories.

Eager hikers could make the climb from Marktplatz in the city centre to this scenic vantage point.

The tower has been in the hands of a local preservation society for more than 150 years, and there has been a restaurant in the house below since 1868.

7. Stadtmuseum & Kunstsammlung

On the north wall of the historic marketplace stands the Göhre, a half-timbered house with foundations laid in the 1200s.

The building is named after Paul Göhre, who ran a wine tavern here at the turn of the century.

The city’s museum had a few locations before moving into this building in 1988, and there’s a timeline on the stairway leading from Jena’s first mention in the 9th century to 1850. One of curiosities inside is Draco, a bizarre 17th-century sculpture made of papier-mâché, wire and animal bones.

Back then Draco qualified for that list of Seven Wonders! Also look for the Jena Wartburg flag from 1816, the first time the German colours of black, red and gold were united on one banner.

8. Napoleonstein

Military historians can venture onto the slopes of the Windknollen north of Jena, where the Battle of Jena-Auerstedt took place on 14 October 1806. And while the trek and view from this grassy hill may be glorious, that day more than 210 years ago was anything but pleasant.

Upwards of 10,000 people died at this place alone.

The Prussian defeat that day would see the Kingdom of Prussia absorbed by the French Empire.

Nine days later General Louis-Nicolas Davout’s French army marched into Berlin under the Brandenburg Gate.

Etched onto the stone is a quote about Germany’s attitude towards Napoleon by author and historian Golo Mann, as well as the distances in kilometres to other Napoleonic battlefields like Austerlitz, Cairo, Leipzig and Waterloo.

9. Phyletisches Museum

This museum on phylogenetics was founded over a century ago by none other than the influential biologist Ernst Haeckel.

The foundation stone had been laid on August 28 1907, Goethe’s birthday, while its Art Nouveau architecture has earned it listed status.

The museum’s permanent exhibition is on the middle ground between art and science.

The Medusa Hall for instance still has beautiful frescoes of marine life painted in 1908. There are also artistically designed showcases, and these are paired with insights about the phylogenetic development of organisms, evolutionary theory and the genetic science that informs it.

In-depth studies show how HIV spread so quickly in the 1980s, and how sexual selection affects the behaviour and appearance of animals.

10. Schillers Gartenhaus

This museum preserves the house and garden that belonged to the playwright and national icon Friedrich Schiller at the end of the 18th century.

Schiller picked the house for its large garden as he had health problems at the time and was recommended fresh air.

During his stay he wrote one of his most famous works, Wallenstein, as well as sections of Maria Stuart and the Maid of Orleans.

The oval stone table under an arbour where Schiller and his friend Goethe would chew the cud is exactly where it was more than 200 years ago.

There are also little revelations that will bring a smile to your face, like Friedrich’s wife Charlotte having a separate bedroom because he would get up suddenly in the night when he had an idea.

11. Johannisfriedhof

A city that has had as many illustrious residents as Jena is bound to have some famous burials.

At the Johannisfriedhof, next to the Botanischer Garten, you can track down Carl Zeiss’ final resting place.

But at the same time the cemetery is uncommonly beautiful: There have been no new burials at the Johannisfriedhof since 1948, and for the last forty years the wide avenues, century-old trees and ivy-covered mausoleums have become a public park.

Some other interesting graves to look out for are Caroline von Wolzogen (Schiller’s sister in law), and the respected physician Johann Christian Stark the Elder who treated both Goethe and Schiller.

12. Schott Glasmuseum

The chemist and glass technologist Otto Schott helped advance optical instruments in the 19th and 20th centuries.

In 1884 he co-founded the Glastechnisches Laboratorium Schott & Genossen, which would evolve into today’s glass-making multinational Schott AG. His biggest contribution came in 1893 with the invention of borosilicate glass, which is more resistant to chemicals, heat and sudden changes in temperature.

To get to grips with one of the most brilliant scientists and inventors of the day you can enter Schott’s palatial villa where he lived and had his own laboratory.

There are details about his life, insights into the changing methods for glassmaking and how his discoveries led to ever more powerful telescopes and microscopes.

13. Imaginata

There are now interactive science museums for kids all over the world, but one of the very first opened in a disused substation in Jena in 1995. Over 20 years later there are still more than 100 engaging experiments and exhibits, finding unconventional ways to get young minds thinking about mathematics, physics and optical illusions.

Imagination has a big role to play in helping kids learn, so they’ll be plunged into outlandish situations like riding a bike over a tightrope, riding a one-person rollercoaster and lying inside a grand piano.

14. Romantikerhaus

At the turn of the 18th century a generation of authors, poets, literary critics, scientists and philosophers put Jena at the vanguard of thought in Europe.

This museum captures the spirit of those first Romantics, paying special attention to the publisher and patron Carl Friedrich Ernst Frommann, who had a wide circle of friends that included Goethe.

The museum’s venue is the house that philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte lived in when he was lecturing at the university in the 1790s.

One of the museum’s showpieces is the experimental cabinet by the chemist and philosopher Johann Wilhelm Ritter.

This shows the scientific commitment of the early Romantics and the complex relationship between art, philosophy and science.

15. Thüringer Rostbratwurst

Out and about in Jena you’ll catch the scent of grilling sausages.

This goes especially for market days (Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays). But the rest of the time you’ll never be far from a moving “Grillteufel” stands.

Real Thüringer Rostbratwurst is up to 20 centimetres long and cooked over a charcoal fire.

Unlike, say, a frankfurter, it packs a herby punch and is heavily seasoned with garlic, caraway and marjoram.

It will come in a bun and with a dollop of mustard.

And being an East German student town, there’s a great price to quality ratio for snacks and meals in Jena.

15 Best Things to Do in Jena (Germany):

• Zeiss-Planetarium Jena
• Botanischer Garten
• Optical Museum Jena
• Stadtkirche St. Michael
• Stadtmuseum & Kunstsammlung
• Napoleonstein
• Phyletisches Museum
• Schillers Gartenhaus
• Johannisfriedhof
• Schott Glasmuseum
• Romantikerhaus
• Thüringer Rostbratwurst

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Over time, space expands, stretching the wavelenghts of light and causing the distant galaxies seen in the Ultra Deep Field image from the Hubble Space Telescope to look redder than the closer galaxies.

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The enormous mass of galaxy cluster Abell 370 bends the space around it, magnifying and distorting the light from more distant galaxies into arc-like streaks.

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Jena: Welcome to paradise

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Lots of greenery and short distances. Colorful student life, culture and restaurants. Surrounded by a relaxing environment with two beautiful long-distance bike paths - the Saaleradweg and the Thüringer Städtekette. For those who are on the road here, a detour through paradise directly into the center of Jena is obligatory!

The javelin thrower and Olympic champion Thomas Röhler from Jenens is on the road all over the world. Challenges await him everywhere, and everywhere is beautiful, exciting and interesting. But the competitive athlete only wants to live in one place - his hometown of Jena.

Out, up and away on the SaaleHorizontale !

"Just turn off your cell phone, enjoy the moment, get your adrenaline down." That's the great thing about Jena: nature is always just 15 minutes away! Thomas Röhler appreciates this unique quality of life so much about his city. His favorite destination is the SaaleHorizontale, a hiking trail that leads across the shell limestone slopes around Jena. A short trip out of the city and up into the heights - that's how quickly you can relax! After a short time, you're back in the bustling center, and everyday life can continue. Thereby the SaaleHorizontale never boring. Once you're out and about, you'll always discover new opportunities and photo spots, whether you're just walking for an hour or taking a ten-hour hiking tour.

The magnificent views of the city and the surrounding villages, the Saale valley, Fuchsturm or Jenzig inspire every time anew. By the way, the best view of Jena is from the Landgrafen, a mountain restaurant where you can also eat wonderfully, at eye level with the JenTower. So what are you waiting for? Let's get out, climb up and go!

Welcome to the fantastic world of galaxies, stars and planets

If it's raining in Jena, that's no reason to despair, but a welcome reason to visit a particularly exciting attraction, the Zeiss Planetarium Jena: Here you embark on a journey into the distant worlds of planets, stars and galaxies, and with technical possibilities that others can only dream of... By the way, the Zeiss Planetarium Jena is a hot tip even in good weather!

The Botanical Garden, a green oasis in the center

For plant lovers and nature lovers, the Botanical Garden is a must. What all grows, blooms and thrives here in the middle of the city center! In the Victoria House, for example, the most beautiful colorful butterflies flutter and delight young and old. And in the fascinating park, with its alpine nursery and areas for tropical, useful and medicinal plants, every specialty has its own area and its own charm.

The Jena Botanical Garden is the second oldest in Germany. It was founded in 1586 as a medicinal herb garden, but it owes its present form to Goethe's involvement. The leaves of the more than 200-year-old ginkgo, a "contemporary" of Goethe's, glow brilliant yellow in the fall, recalling the master's botanical work. But there is much more to see! Around 10,000 plant species grow on an area of 4.5 hectares, making the garden a wonderful retreat for stressed office workers, botanically interested people and tourists seeking relaxation - and all this in the middle of Jena's lively city center.

More information about Jena can be found here

Cover photo: About 110,000 people live in Jena © JenaKultur, Photo: A. Gräf

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UNRAVELLING THE VOICE

 ENDLESS UNIVERSE   

Music and philosphy meet astrophysics

  in this live, immersive fulldome presentation.

Conceived, Written, Directed + Performed by

Jenna Robertson

in collaboration with

Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium and Emily Lane ​

All of this is temporary.

How long will Planet Earth and the Milky Way galaxy provide conditions for human life? What cosmic endings and new beginnings await us? And how do we make sense of a ll of this? 

Endless Universe  explores cosmic sustainability through an entirely unique and profoundly moving lens.

Let your mind and heart soar in this live, fulldome presentation where music  and philosophy meet astrophysics.

The work is a seamless and poetic integration of art and science that finds inspiration within our endings.

Endless Universe  had its world premiere in 2022 for World Space Week at the Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium. The work was created in response to the World Space Week theme 'Space and Sustainability'.

For 2023 National Science Week  Endless Universe  was programmed at the Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium and Melbourne Planetarium, Scienceworks.

CREDITS 

Conceived, Written, Directed + Performed by   Jenna Robertson 

​i i n collaboration with Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium and Emily Lane ​

Cosmic Navigation + Digistar Scripting: Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium Astronomers Peter Frankland and Vanessa Porchet and Melbourne Planetarium Owen Collins.

Cosmic Collaboration: Emily Lane

Live Artist Narrator + Vocals: Jenna Robertson

Live Astronomy Narrators: Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium Astronomers Peter Frankland + Vanessa Porchet, Melbourne Planetarium Owen Collins

Music Curator: Jenna Robertson

Co-Produced by Jenna Robertson, Sir Thomas Brisbane Planetarium and Melbourne Planetarium

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#JUPLIFE: Behind the scenes of pro golf's coolest town

It’s dinnertime in Jupiter, Fla., and 1000 North is the place to be. The restaurant opened in 2018 and immediately became a nexus of German engineering, Italian tailoring and South Beach plastic surgery. Jutting into the Loxahatchee River is a private dock so that diners can arrive in style; Dustin Johnson has been known to cruise up in his 82-foot Viking. (The lounge upstairs, available only to the 300 members who pay $4,000 to join and $4,000 in annual dues, carries Fireball cinnamon whisky to whet the whistle of Johnson and his glamorous fiancee, Paulina Gretzky.)

Michael Jordan gets a lot of attention for being a part owner, but the man behind the man is Ira Fenton, a low-key powerbroker who helped finance Jack Nicklaus’ The Bear’s Club across town. That private golf club has about three dozen elite tour pros as members, and its popularity helped inspire 1000 NORTH when Fenton sought to replicate the clubby atmosphere and first-rate service of The Bear’s Club. “If you put together a tournament with just our restaurant’s investors, you’d have a very strong field,” Fenton said recently over a decadent meal, interrupting himself often to greet by name the servers and hosts, all of whom had the fresh-scrubbed good looks of Abercrombie models. Those investors include Johnson, Ernie Els, Brooks Koepka, Justin Thomas, Rickie Fowler, Luke Donald, Keegan Bradley and Camilo Villegas. “It’s a fun thing to be a part of,” Bradley says, “and it guarantees you can get a table on a Friday night, which is getting harder these days.”

1. Brooks Koepka, 2. Debbie Terlato, 3. Bill Terlato, 4. Sherrye Fenton, 5. Ira Fenton, 6. Rory McIlroy, 7. Padma Mantena, 8. Raj Mantena, 9. Ernie Els, 10. Liezl Els, 11. Tucker Frederickson, 12. Ahmad Rashad, 13. Jena Sims

Jupiter’s popularity has solidified its standing as the center of the golf universe. Educated guesses place the number of pro golfers of varying status in the area at five dozen. Set to join them is the consummate California dude, Phil Mickelson, who bought a place on Jupiter Island, where he and wife Amy will feather their empty nest (and enjoy the benefits of no state income tax, which Phil has long desired).

When Jordan wanted to create his private 18-hole fiefdom, the Jupiter area was the only place he considered. The result is Grove XXIII, which opened in 2019 and is already the gathering spot for stars from various sports who indulge in jocular money games and other rituals of male bonding . Grove is in horse country about 15 miles from The Bear’s Club, farther north than was once considered fashionable. But its mystique helped inspire Steve Ross, the owner of the Miami Dolphins, to purchase 1,200 nearby acres, on which he is reputedly planning to build three private courses. It’s a good bet, given that every club in town has a long waiting list, and in the COVID era, well-heeled northerners continue to arrive in droves. The Wall Street Journal reported that Palm Beach, half an hour to the south, has had 35 homes sell for at least $30 million since March 2020, with two eclipsing $100 million. Jupiter, which has not one but three tiki bars clustered around its iconic lighthouse, is beachier than Palm Beach, which Luke Donald describes as “more old money, more swanky, more stuffy.” But with almost no available inventory, the high-end home prices around Jupiter have similarly spiked; Greg Norman sold Tranquility, his eight-acre spread on Jupiter Island, for $55 million. (The season in South Florida used to be October through April, but many new arrivals are staying year-round, beating the summer heat by playing golf early in the morning.)

RELATED:  An inside look at Michael Jordan's new course, The Grove XXIII

North Palm Beach is home to venerable Seminole, but that’s not a place where tour players hang out. Old-timers Ray Floyd and Nick Price are the only pro golfers among the membership. In Jupiter, The Bear’s Club has long been a popular spot, with many tour pros living on the premises. In 2017, Rory McIlroy bought Ernie Els’ 13,000-square-foot house for low eight figures and then did an extensive remodel.

The practice facility at The Bear’s Club is legendary, with each pro enjoying buckets of his or her preferred model of golf ball, which are meticulously sorted by the staff. Nicklaus recently reworked the par-3 course. “You can tell when a big tournament is coming because the range is packed,” says Jessica Korda, one of a dozen or so LPGA Tour players who make their home around Jupiter and often practice side by side with the guys. If The Bear’s Club is where players go to work on their game, Medalist is the place to test themselves against each other. DJ and Rickie are regulars, and it was Tiger Woods’ preferred place before his car crash in 2021. The Grove has a spectacular practice facility, but it’s more about the hang. The sleek clubhouse has a dizzying number of TVs, and the real ballers drink Cincoro Extra Añejo from Jordan’s personal tequila company. A 750-millileter bottle retails for $1,800. (Mickelson, the game’s preeminent raconteur, has already joined the Grove.) Those are the big three among the Jupiter area’s private clubs, but there are a bunch of other notable spots: the swank Floridian, which is more to the north but still popular with tour players; classy Old Palm, which has traditionally been the landing spot for European Tour expats; secluded McArthur, which is joining the building frenzy with a new second course, designed by Bill Coore and Ben Crenshaw; and Jupiter Hills, a 1970 George Fazio design that, like many Jupiter residents of a certain age, has had a lot of work done.

All of these courses are private, which means Jupiter will never be a destination for golf tourists. But it is a kind of fantasy camp for the surgeons and stockbrokers at the clubs who get to rub elbows with golf greatness. “If some 18-handicapper asks me how to play a certain shot, I’m always happy to help them,” Johnson says. “You never know what kind of advice they’ll be able to give you in their profession.” Plenty of these deep-pocketed duffers like to engage tour players in money games, but details are always scarce. “If there were any great stories of guys playing for huge money—and I’m not saying there are—you wouldn’t hear about them,” Bradley says. “There’s kind of an honor system to keep things private.”

RELATED: We got some of Jupiter's biggest powerbrokers together for a very elaborate photo shoot

For tour pros, Jupiter is the ultimate playground. “I can’t live anywhere else now,” says Bradley, a Jup resident for more than a decade. “The courses are so good, and the practice facilities are the best in the world. I can show up any day of the week to a handful of courses and get a game against tour winners, major-championship winners, future Hall of Famers. Obviously, the weather is perfect, and the lifestyle is great. But if the goal is to keep my game razor sharp when I’m home, I can’t get done what I need to get done anywhere else in the world.”

If one house symbolizes the glamour and impetuousness of #JupLife, it is a sleek bit of American Dream on River Drive, with a backyard that spills out onto the Loxahatchee River and a private dock. Bradley bought the house after winning the 2011 PGA Championship and later sold it to Brooks Koepka, who had U.S. Open champ Graeme McDowell’s wife, Kristin, an interior decorator, redo the inside in a style that could be called macho chic: lots of stone and metal with pastel touches. When I visited in late 2017, the garage was a riot of kayaks and stand-up paddle boards, and the walk-in wine room was a nice spot for Koepka’s glittering U.S. Open trophy. As he continued to pile up major-championship victories, Koepka moved to a gaudier place on a bigger, more private lot, selling the house to yet another tour mainstay, Daniel Berger. After winning at Colonial last year, Berger bought a Bahama 41 speedboat to park out back. (What Teslas are to Pebble Beach, the Bahama 41 is to Jupiter.)

Illustration by Josie Portillo

PRO GOLF’S TROPICAL PLAYGROUND

Jupiter, Florida, the de facto capital of professional golf, is 90 miles north of Miami, 155 miles southeast of Orlando and about 55 nautical miles from the Bahamas. There are 16 golf courses in Jupiter and another 78 within 20 miles of the town, the vast majority of them private. But for the 60-plus members of the PGA Tour and LPGA Tour who call Jupiter home, the eight golf clubs that really matter are (from top) Floridian, McArthur, Medalist, Grove XXIII, Jupiter Hills Club, Bear’s Club, Seminole and Old Palm. The restaurant, 1000 NORTH, which opened in 2018 and counts Michael Jordan as part owner, has emerged as a gathering spot for golf’s elite. Several PGA Tour players are investors, members or both.

If Berger can cash a few more oversize checks, he might be able to cross the river to the west side, where Pennock Point Road is the most prized address. That’s where Fowler and Justin Thomas live. Johnson lived there for a long stretch, too, while he was building a modernist Xanadu farther up the river. “It’s a small world,” Johnson once told me. “I’ll be in the backyard chipping, and Rickie will cruise by on a paddle board. Or I’ll be in the boat and see JT or [longtime tour player Steve] Marino messing around at their place. You just kind of wave and keep going. You see them around town sometimes doing normal things. I’ll say, ‘Hey.’ We don’t talk about golf or anything like that.” (As cliquey as it can be, not every pro manages to fit in; Matthew Wolff recently decamped from Jupiter, buying a house in his old college town of Stillwater, Okla. “There’s not a lot of people my age down there,” says Wolff, 22.)

The biggest and most extravagant golfer’s house in the area is Woods’ 12-acre compound on Jupiter Island, extending from the Intercoastal all the way to the Atlantic, with a famed backyard practice area. His arrival is a key moment on Jupiter’s timeline, which begins in 1966 when Jack Nicklaus—fleeing Ohio’s harsh winters and lured by the bountiful deep-sea fishing—settled at Lost Tree Club in what is now considered North Palm Beach. That immediately made South Florida a thing. (Cary Middlecoff soon moved down the street.) In the early 1990s, the second wave of big-time golfers arrived, led by Greg Norman and Nick Price, who took turns as the game’s dominant forces of that era. Norman built a macho club in his image, Medalist, though he hasn’t come around as much since disputes about course alterations and losing control of the board. Price built McArthur, which reflects his more refined sensibilities.

BOOMTOWN Rory McIlroy, Ernie Els and Brooks Koepka are among the dozens of top tour players attracted to the Jup lifestyle.

Jesper Parnevik settled in the area, luring a cadre of fellow Swedes, but Orlando remained the golf world’s center of gravity, especially after Woods established residency upon turning pro in 1996. Orlando’s hegemony was cemented in the popular imagination by the annual Tavistock Cup, a monument to excess that pitted the glittering names from two of O-town’s warring golf clubs, Isleworth and Lake Nona. Landlocked and touristy, Orlando had only one real appeal: an international airport. But in 1999, the tour’s new TV contract kicked in, having been negotiated in the wake of Woods’ game-changing Masters victory. Previously unimaginable riches flowed into the sport. Private jets that had once been the province of only the biggest stars were suddenly within reach of the tour’s middle class. (In 1998, Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway acquired NetJets and quickly reshaped the private-aviation industry, and the company would sign three dozen players as “ambassadors.”) With tour pros no longer tethered to the Orlando airport, they began migrating toward the ocean, like salmon. (Those who have stayed in Orlando skew European because they can fly nonstop to the Continent on commercial airlines given that going private across the ocean is a big ticket.) The jet center at tiny Palm Beach airport (PBI) quickly became a de facto PGA Tour clubhouse, and when the cost of a private jet is split among five or six golfers, it becomes almost defensible.

Woods famously wooed one of Parnevik’s nannies, a cosmopolitan law student (and, yes, former bikini model) named Elin Nordegren, who made it clear she had zero interest in living in Orlando. In 2006—two years after the splashy wedding—Tiger paid $40 million for his sprawling estate. He tore down the existing structures and built his dream house, complete with two swimming pools, a home gym and an oxygen therapy room. (By the time construction was finished so, too, was Woods’ marriage.) Seeking to put his branded stamp on the neighborhood, he opened his restaurant in 2015. The Woods Jupiter aspires to be a high-brow sports bar, though the prices suggest Peter Luger; the 10-ounce filet mignon is $53. Unlike the sleekly dressed staff at 1000 NORTH, the waitresses and bartenders at The Woods are a scrappy bunch who look like they have lived a little. In 2017, Tiger became romantically involved with the restaurant manager, Erica Herman, and they have settled into a contented domesticity.

Tiger also nabbed professional golf ’s biggest boat, a 155-footer he named Privacy. As the name suggests, Woods uses his yacht to get away from it all. The water is at the center of #JupLife. Many of the restaurants have private docks, and reservations are encouraged—for the boats more than the humans. Johnson and Donald are among a group of enthusiastic chasers of marlin, sailfish and mahi. “Berger thinks he’s good, but when we’ve gone out, he’s caught nothing, so I’ll believe it when I see it,” woofs Donald.

Of course, some of Berger’s best work comes without a rod in hand when he is “boating”—the local parlance for hanging out at sand bars with hot women and cold beverages. (The most popular sand bar juts off Jupiter Island and is known as Tiger Beach because Woods’ house is about 1,000 feet away, though he is never glimpsed behind the towering hedges.) The popular imagination of Jupiter as a sexy, sudsy place comes largely from the social media feeds of three extremely photogenic and often scantily clad influencers: Gretzky, Jena Sims (Koepka’s fiancé) and Tori Slater (Berger’s girlfriend). Their beaus make occasional cameos in their posts, offering stiff dance moves, doing backflips off their boats or, in Koepka’s case, wearing sneakers and an untucked t-shirt on even the fanciest occasions. It’s hard to argue with Donald, who says, “This place is a bit like Fantasyland.”

HAPPY HOUR It wouldn’t be a stretch to find Koepka, his fiancee, Jena Sims, and McIlory mingling at 1000 NORTH’s exclusive lounge.

Like any town, Jupiter is cleaved by its haves and have-nots. The area’s young, aspiring pros are not investors in 1000 NORTH but regulars at the Square Grouper, a tiki joint with leathery dudes behind the bar pouring Creamsicles, which are made with whipped-cream vodka, orange juice and cream. They taste like your childhood, plus a dash of regret. The mini-tour rabbits can’t afford (and are not invited) to join the glamorous clubs, so they congregate at Abacoa, Bear Lakes, Ironhorse, Seagate and other less-fancy joints that will cut them a deal on mini-memberships. The cost of living is so high that sharing apartments is common, though in a new twist on chain migration, players who make it to the big leagues will sometimes lend a hand; when Dominic Bozzelli made a better life for himself on the PGA Tour, he allowed his friend Gavin Hall to live in his house for two years, rent-free. “He knows how hard it is to make it and was nice enough to help me out,” says Hall, 26, a Texas grad who is chasing it on the Forme Tour, a Florida-based micro-mini that sends its top-five point earners to the Korn Ferry Tour. He could live somewhere cheaper and less glamorous, such as Jacksonville, but like the hedge-fund managers swelling the waiting lists at Jupiter’s private golf clubs, Hall wants to be close to the action.

“Every day I’m around players from the Challenge Tour, Canadian Tour, Latinóamerica, Korn Ferry,” he says. “All of these guys are busting their butts to get better—it’s motivating. Every now and then you get invited to play with established [PGA] Tour guys. To see up close how those guys operate, how they hit the ball, how they carry themselves, that’s invaluable.”

The Minor League Golf Tour hosts no-frills tournaments throughout South Florida, and it recently visited the Country Club of Coral Springs, an easy drive down I-95 from Jupiter. Thirty players kicked in $495 apiece to compete in (and fund) the three-day event. Only 12 made the cut and therefore earned a paycheck. The winner, Patrick Allgeier, went 19 under par to take home $2,200. Rohan Ramnath finished 11th, good for $480—a net loss even before factoring in gas money.

“It’s an interesting situation, to be surrounded by so much wealth and so many great golf courses and famous golfers while a lot of us are just struggling to get by,” says Ramnath, who graduated from Harvard with a degree in applied mathematics. “It’s a pretty stark illustration of how much your life can change if you shoot better scores.” There are trophies to be won and history to be made, but nowadays there is little doubt how the spoils would be spent.

Says Ramnath,“A big house on the water in Jupiter, that’s definitely the dream.”

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A delirious, pulpy mishmash of knockoffs, Zack Snyder’s film isn’t good, but it sure is something.

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A Zack Snyder picture is like everything and nothing else in the galaxy. “Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver,” the second half of the director’s hammering saga about a bucolic village at the fringes of the universe forced to fight off its imperial overlords, pulls from as many influences as there are stars in the sky. “Star Wars,” of course (yes, there are light sabers), and also “Mad Max,” Caravaggio, John Ford, European art-house cinema, World War II propaganda flicks, steampunk Victoriana, cottagecore girlies on Instagram and Wagner’s “Götterdämmerung.” Not only does the score boast two types of choirs (haunted child and Gregorian), but a single frame might include a robot dressed like the Green Knight (and voiced by Anthony Hopkins) next to a Conan the Barbarian clone next to some guy in overalls who looks like he just flew in from Bonnaroo. A delirious, pulpy mishmash of knockoffs, “The Scargiver” isn’t good, but it sure is something.

The first “Rebel Moon,” released on Netflix in December, made audiences endure a gantlet of narrative groundwork that’s fairly inessential and recapped here. In it, a farm boy named Gunnar (Michiel Huisman) and a secretive assassin named Kora (Sofia Boutella) assemble an interstellar team of protectors (played by Djimon Hounsou, Staz Nair, Elise Duffy, Doona Bae and others). Now, the story picks up five days before the squad must defeat a vicious army led by an admiral (Ed Skrein) with a bad haircut and worse attitude.

The script by Snyder, Kurt Johnstad and Shay Hatten trips over its aspirations whenever any character talks. There’s not a single authentic conversation, just exposition dumps and soliloquies (the best of which Hounsou delivers). Finally, after an hour of speeches, we’re treated to an hour of rousing warfare. Primal, pitiless, agonizing carnage is where Snyder excels. He’ll kill anyone, even nice people, even grandmothers-turned-guerrilla warriors who just want to get back to folk dancing. And he makes it hurt.

The film has plenty of death, yet little life. Boutella, the lead, is listless until she can get to stabbing, and in the multiple scenes where she and the other warriors gather around a dinner table to discuss their plan of attack, the actors appear to have been ordered to ignore the food. Anything that might look cool in slow motion is filmed in slow motion: tears, explosions, wheat threshing, flour grinding. In one shot, a victim plummets from the sky in slow motion all the way down to the splat.

Snyder’s ostentatiousness is unmatched. His refusal to dial down any of his impulses — dramatic smooches backlit by a pink-ringed planet, priestly hats that resemble glowing pepperonis, a four-legged tank which totters like a hung-over armadillo — has an admirable resolve, even if it comes from an inability to say no to himself. As the body count ticks into the triple digits and the bone-rattling battle expands from the land to the air, I found myself thinking of that moral debate in Kevin Smith’s “Clerks” about the never-seen workers who died building the Death Star for Darth Vader. At least Snyder shows their faces. Then he mows them down.

Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver Rated PG-13 for brief strong language, sequences of strong violence and suicide. Running time: 2 hours 2 minutes. Watch on Netflix .

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