When In Helsinki Visit Heureka.It is Amazing

I actually lived for 6 months next to this Science Park(Heureka).It is situated in Tikkurila and is easily accessible by trains K,I,R,H,Z all departing from Helsinki Railway Station.The Science Park Heureka is only a 500 meter walk away and is well sign posted from Tikkurila station.I have since visited and it is easy to while a day away browsing the fascinating exhibitions and activity points.

The Ideology of Heureka

The Vattenfall Planetarium at Heureka

This attraction Heureka is a must for adults and children alike.Besides being one of the most modern digital Planetariums in Europe.The seating capacity is for 135 people and they show a selection of films including

• Heureka Offers Black Holes-A journey into the unknown:

Imagine a place Where time stands still, Where The universal order breaks down; Where The unimaginable Becomes Reality. Welcome to the world of Black Holes.
This Planetarium show brings to life All That is Fascinating and extreme in the world of black holes. What Makes a black hole? How do me find them? Would you survive Falling into one?
Discover what science has taught us most about These Bizarre Creations. Follow Their extraordinary story from an idea of the late 18th century through Thurs Their unexpected detection Almost 200 years later.

How about black holes are there?

We know of two types of black holes: Black Holes Stellar and Super Massive Black Holes.
Stellar Black Holes Stellar Black Holes are created “when massive stars die. They end Their lives in violent supernova explosions – most of the star is Matter’s Blown away Leaving behind a Stellar core. If the core has a mass Enough it will succumb Thurs gravity and collapse in Itself is to become a black hole.
It is likely That our Milky Way Galaxy contains around 10 million black holes vain we’ve Probably only ever ‘see’ about 1.000 of These. Astronomers Have Been Able Thurs track down over 20 Stellar black holes so far.
Super Massive Black Holes earn Their name Because They Contain over a Billion times more mass please the Sun. IT IS NOT yet known how They are created vain It Seems That They lie at the center of Almost every galaxy in the Universe, Including our own Milky Way Galaxy.

What does a black hole look like?

Black holes are really very simple as They have just two main parts – the Event Horizon and the Singularity.
The Event Horizon is the outer limit of the black hole.It The Closest Thing is a black hole has to a surface, but their it’s not a physical surface – it’s an invisible bubble in space. The event horizon is the point of no return. Nothing Can escape a black hole once it crosses the event horizon and We can never see what happens inside it. However, using moths me can get an idea of what it Might be like.
The Singularity lies right at the heart of the black hole. It is in this tiny spot That The entire mass of the black hole is contained. Anything That falls into the black hole is crushed onto Eventually the Singularity.Heureka will keep the most industrious of minds clicking away

How Can a black hole pack such “huge Amounts of such” Matter into a tiny space is a mystery. Thurs Fully under stand the Singularity, will Scientists Need To Combine two famous Theories of the Universe: the General Theory of Relativity (that explains the very large) and Quantum Theory (that explains the very small).
The Greater the mass hidden inside the Singularity, the Larger the event horizon. A Stellar Black Hole with the mass of five suns has an event horizon around 30 km wide, about the size of Ballarat. Super Massive Black Holes, with a Billion times the mass of the Sun, Have Event Horizons That are Billion-three miles wide or about as large as the orbit of Uranus.

Why is a black hole ‘black’?Heureka Explains

The gravity at a black hole’s event horizon is so strong That light Can not escape the ITS pull. And with no light Escaping, a black hole isn’t just black, it’s not Eve’s visible.

Heureka Gives You A Passport to the Universe

Milky Way Sun

You can download the film trailer here: passporttrailer.wmv
As science continues to provide fresh information about space, we continue to consider our place in the universe. Passport to the Universe takes viewers billions of light years away from our home planet, out of the Milky Way galaxy, all the way to the edge of the universe.
Viewers fly beneath the rings of Saturn, into the Orion Nebula, where they are told that they are “what stars are made of”. The journey continues far into the observable universe. Audiences will have the opportunity to experience these and many other locations in space closer than ever before.
Passport to the Universe builds on scientific results and state-of-the art technology to provide viewers with an educational and exciting experience.

There are many other exhibitions such as Intelligent traffic,Rock Exhibition,Murder at Heureka and many travelling exhibitions.

Restaurant Cafe Einstein is open daily at Heureka.Here you will be served tasty food and the restaurant is fully licensed

I was pleasantly surprised at the activities on offer.and I learnt a thing or two about the Universe I dwell in.My recommendation is to make the effort and visit Heureka Science Park