Young talent competitionNational winner of 'Jugend forscht 2019' chosen
Germany's best young researchers in the 54th national 'Jugend forscht' competition have been chosen. Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly important role in the young talents' projects. The winners from the specialist areas and the special prize winners in a picture gallery.
2019 national prize in the field of 'Earth and Space Sciences' for Mohamad Al Farhan (20) and Till Felix Weismann (17):
If a part of the starry sky is particularly bright, this can have various causes. A high density of stars is possible, or a comparatively small amount of interstellar dust in this sector swallows up the light of the celestial bodies behind it. With this in mind, Till Felix Weismann and Mohamad Al Farhan wanted to find out what the so-called shield cloud, the brightest region of the Milky Way, is all about. Using stellar data, they proved that a spiral arm - i.e. a spiral galaxy - of the Milky Way probably exists there at a distance of 6,000 light years. As no large dark clouds can be detected, a lot of light reaches the Earth from this area. The results of the young researchers contribute to further understanding of the structure of our galaxy.