"Views Over The Horizon" ( Exhibition 2025 )

For a week, 10 female and 7 male students looked beyond the Münster horizon. Fascinating results were the images of the Dumbbell Nebula and the Saturn Nebula, both "burial shrouds" of stars at the end of their luminosity, as well as the tracking of Vesta, the second largest asteroid in our solar system.

At the end is the exhibition “Views over the horizon” with 23 pictures of the current starry sky and explanations. This exhibition can be viewed in the foyer of the Institute of Planetology at UNI Münster until July 13, 2025.

The team from 10 schools in Münsterland had 26 large research telescopes at their disposal at the MINT Camp 2025 “Astronomy 2.0”, which they were allowed to control themselves via the Internet. This included the Faulkes Telescope North, which with its 2-metre diameter mirror and a mass of 25 tons is located 3100 meters above sea level on the Haleakala volcano in Hawaii. This produced images of galaxies and burnt-out stars, as well as places where new stars are currently being hatched.

The participants were also impressed by the commitment and inventiveness of Prof. Dr. Bastian Gundlach's team in the experimental planetology laboratories. In the Kyro laboratory, for example, Paula Heitmann is trying to find out how comets collected ice in the early planetary system, only to occasionally appear near the Earth with an impressive tail.

The STEM Camp 2025 “Astronomy 2.0” is a joint career-oriented event organized by Astronomy and internet in Münster (AiM), the Mathilde Anneke Comprehensive School (MAG) and the Institute of Planetology (IfP) at the University of Münster.