Southern Skies Over Germany

The city of Heidelberg in Germany played host to an international astronomical celebration when EU-UNAWE Germany invited a group of 65 children from 10 different local nursery and primary schools to take part in the German-South African Science Year.
South Africa and Germany are united by a long standing, successful partnership. Germany has a great deal to offer in the fields of technology and applied sciences and South Africa is a research location of unprecedented value, attracting people from over the world to conduct research in the fields of astronomy, water, climate, energy, biodiversity, health and education. The two countries organised the German-South African Year of Science, running from April 2012 to April 2013, to celebrate and reinforce their collaboration.
As part of the celebrations, EU-UNAWE national project coordinators from both Germany and South Africa, along with a selection of special guests, pulled together to arrange a day of multi-cultural astronomy fun for children on 19 October, at the planetarium of Haus der Astronomie in Heidelberg.
The day kicked off with a Voyage through Space, which taught the kids where both their own country and South Africa are on the planet earth. The show also demonstrated the problems of light ...