in the words of german poet reiner maria rybka the darkness from whence i came. the days clamor and demands everything looks different after night falls. just as a model it was this is a model of our sun and i use it to explain on the one hand how a star actually functions at a star is and on the other to show the size of our planet as compared to it or that i'm holding the sun i am now with the earth in my pocket is there if that's how small it is compared to the sun was cold see that so. astronomy is the most ancient of all the sciences. the first calendars were based on what we see in the sky which also seemed to hold the secrets of creation that night we see stars that are millions of white years away but the night is disappearing says manuel philip from the rosenheim planetarium. the physicist has set up a star park in the bavarian alps a protected dark zone where you can still view the firmament it's a sight most of humanity now rarely sees. of it fresh on its once only twenty to thirty percent of us still see the night sky as it really is a sleepy other se