Virtual Babelsberg Starry Night

From 6 p.m. on Thursday, Professor Klaus Strassmeier’s lecture on the topic "Cosmic roommates: The search for life in the universe" from the Babelsberg Starry Night series will be available online. The lecture will be held in German.

Are we as a species alone in the universe, or is the universe as full of life as our blue planet? We don't know yet, but the rapid development in the discovery and exploration of extrasolar planets in recent years has lifted such questions out of the speculative and into the fact-based sciences. Never before have we been so close to solving the Drake equation, which predicts the number of communicating civilisations in our Galaxy. The talk will describe the astrophysically relevant facts for the preconditions for life as we know it, and reveal some quite astonishing projections from our own biological-social behaviour.

This season, the Babelsberg Starry Nights will not take place on site at the AIP, but will come straight to your home: on the 3rd Thursday of each month from 6 p.m. the lectures are available at https://www.aip.de/babelsberger-sternennaechte and on the Youtube channel of Urknall, Weltall und das Leben and can be viewed at any time afterwards.