Dort draußen – Die Suche nach fremden Welten

In the organizer's words:

Are we alone in space? This question has long preoccupied mankind. For centuries, we believed that the Earth was the center of the world. With the help of science, we have looked deeper and deeper into space and now know that neither the earth nor the sun are at the center of the universe. Rather, our Earth is an ordinary planet, orbiting a pleasingly average star. Not even our galaxy, the Milky Way, is unique.

We now also know that there are many stars in the universe which, like our sun, have their own planets, the exoplanets. They are more common than initially assumed. But how can we find these strange, distant worlds? Could life perhaps even exist there?

"Out There" provides an insight into the current exploration of extrasolar worlds, which began in the 1990s. The show reflects on how art, literature and philosophy have inspired science over the centuries, but how even people's wildest science fiction imaginings have been surpassed by reality.

A production of the Swiss Museum of Transport in cooperation with NCCR PlanetS and the European Southern Observatory (ESO).