A Long Night for ESO

Since then, the Garching Campus has developed extensively, welcoming several Max-Planck Institutes (Astrophysics, Extraterrestrial Physics, Plasma Physics, Quantum Optics), several institutes of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, the Federal Research Institute for Food Chemistry, and the Bavarian Centre of Applied Energy Research, to name just a few. In the course of the years, also several departments of both Munich universities (Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Mechanical Engineering) settled here, conferring on Garching the title of a University city. There are now about 4 000 people who work on the campus, in addition to the 8 500 students, making the campus almost as populous as the town of Garching itself.