🇩🇪 Jena | Don’t Miss the Cosmic Journey at the Zeiss Planetarium! 🌍

🏢 Jen Tower For just €6, take the elevator to the top of this 159-meter tower—once the tallest modern building in East Germany—and enjoy a panoramic view of Jena. 🏙️ Today, the tower houses restaurants, hotels, offices, and even a Huawei branch! 🌳 University Botanical Garden As Germany’s second-oldest botanical garden (part of Jena University), it boasts over 12,000 plant species from around the world. 🌿 The greenhouse features tropical rainforests, desert plants 🌵, and small animals like lizards and poison dart frogs (check out the vibrant—and deadly—colors in Pic 3! ☠️). Outside, the water lilies 🪷 are straight out of a Monet painting! 🌔 Zeiss Planetarium A must-see! The Space Tour (€16, ~45 min) is a mesmerizing musical journey—check the schedule as it’s not daily. Inside the dome-shaped theater, a Zeiss lens-projection sphere transports you into the cosmos. 🚀 The Experience: 1️⃣ Earth’s Perspective: Witness auroras, meteors, and drifting clouds from deserts, oceans, and fjords. 🌌 2️⃣ Solar System Adventure: Fly toward the Sun ☀️, land on the Moon 🌖, and glide through Saturn’s rings. 🪐 3️⃣ Galaxy Exploration: Discover our tiny place in the Milky Way. 🌠 4️⃣ Cosmic Limits: Follow the Hubble Telescope to the edge of the known universe—before returning home. 🌀 💭 The show humbly reminds us: We’re seeing only the "bekanntes Universum" (known universe)—a testament to human awe and curiosity. It reshapes your sense of scale, leaving room for wonder and growth. 📖 Throwback to my uni translation project (4 years ago!): "4.6 billion years ago, a collapsing molecular cloud ignited our solar system. Nuclear fusion birthed the Sun ☀️, while scattered debris formed Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. Earth’s violent collision with Theia ejected the molten rock that became our Moon 🌑." #StudyInGermany #Jena #Zeiss #ExploreTheCosmos #UniversityOfJena #GermanyTravel #49EuroTicket #HiddenGem