Interior view of the HdA building: View from the upper team zone onto the central space of the HdA. In the background, the dome of the Klaus Tschira Auditorium.
Interior view of the HdA building: exhibition space in the foyer. The back-lit showcases feature a variety of astronomical imagery. Center right, models of telescopes from the Calar Alto Observatory at a scale of 1:50.
Interior view of the HdA building: View from the audience in the Klaus Tschira Auditorium (the HdA's central lecture hall, seating 100 and featuring a digital planetarium system) toward the lectern.
Interior view of the HdA building: the Klaus Tschira Auditorium, the HdA's central lecture hall, seats an audience of 100 and features a digital planetarium system.
Interior view of the HdA: one of the workshop rooms. Depending on the date, this is where you might find kindergardeners busily cutting planets from paper - or scientist planning a detector for a future space telescope.
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) and Haus der Astronomie (HdA; Heidelberg's Center for Astronomy Education and Outreach) on the Königstuhl Mountain in Heidelberg. Bottom left: Elsässer Laboratory (MPIA) with two telescope domes; center right: galaxy-shaped HdA building, center left: MPIA main building.
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), Haus der Astronomie (HdA; Heidelberg's Center for Astronomy Education and Outreach) and Landessternwarte on the Königstuhl Mountain in Heidelberg. Bottom right, the two domes of the Elsässer Laboratory (MPIA), center right the galaxy-shaped HdA building, center left the MPIA main building, and top left the buildings and domes of the Landessternwarte.
Image: Sebastian Egner
November 04, 2011
Exterior view of the HdA building. The façade is composed of more than a thousand individually shaped elements.
Image: Dimitrios Gouliermis
May 25, 2012
Exterior view of the building from the South.
Image: HdA/M. Pössel
June 06, 2012
Interior view of Haus der Astronomie: The team zone in the office wing, with the working library in front.
Image: HdA/M. Pössel
June 06, 2012
Interior view of the HdA building: View from the upper team zone onto the central space of the HdA. In the background, the dome of the Klaus Tschira Auditorium.
Image: HdA/M. Pössel
June 06, 2012
Interior view of the HdA building: View of the central space. To the right, the dome of the Klaus Tschira Auditorium.
Image: HdA/M. Pössel
June 06, 2012
Interior view of the HdA building: exhibition space in the foyer. The back-lit showcases feature a variety of astronomical imagery. Center right, models of telescopes from the Calar Alto Observatory at a scale of 1:50.
Image: HdA/M. Pössel
June 06, 2012
Interior view of the HdA building: View from the audience in the Klaus Tschira Auditorium (the HdA's central lecture hall, seating 100 and featuring a digital planetarium system) toward the lectern.
Image: HdA/M. Pössel
June 06, 2012
Interior view of the HdA building: the Klaus Tschira Auditorium, the HdA's central lecture hall, seats an audience of 100 and features a digital planetarium system.
Image: HdA/M. Pössel
June 06, 2012
Interior view of the HdA: one of the workshop rooms. Depending on the date, this is where you might find kindergardeners busily cutting planets from paper - or scientist planning a detector for a future space telescope.
Image: HdA/M. Pössel
June 06, 2012
Interior view of the HdA building: the service area on the lower level.
Image: HdA/M. Pössel
December 12, 2012
A composition in white: exterior view from the West in December 2012.
Image: HdA/M. Pössel
December 12, 2012
Winter impressions: the HdA building from the South in December 2012.
Image: HdA/M. Pössel
July 22, 2013
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) and Haus der Astronomie (HdA; Heidelberg's Center for Astronomy Education and Outreach) on the Königstuhl Mountain in Heidelberg. Bottom left: Elsässer Laboratory (MPIA) with two telescope domes; center right: galaxy-shaped HdA building, center left: MPIA main building.
Image: Sebastian Egner
July 22, 2013
Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA), Haus der Astronomie (HdA; Heidelberg's Center for Astronomy Education and Outreach) and Landessternwarte on the Königstuhl Mountain in Heidelberg. Bottom right, the two domes of the Elsässer Laboratory (MPIA), center right the galaxy-shaped HdA building, center left the MPIA main building, and top left the buildings and domes of the Landessternwarte.
