Noites no Observatório

Until we organise local events again, we will be online through the series The Universe Online.

Noites no Observatório invites the public to experience the Universe, on the last Saturday of every month, through public lectures and observations of the night sky with telescopes.

This project of Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) started in the late 2009. Since November 2015 this sessions are organised in partnership with the Planetário Calouste Gulbenkian – Centro Ciência Viva.

The admission is free but subject to registration.

Discovering Other Worlds

Free entrance
In this session of Noites no Observatório, we will cover some of the most successful methods used by astronomers to detect and characterise planets outside our Solar System.

The star of Bethlehem

Free entrance
In this month's Noites no Observatório, one will embark on an historical voyage that will help understand what the astronomical phenomenon "Star of Bethlehem" might have been.

The Moon… here so close

Free entrance
Let’s learn about the past of this faithful companion of our planet Earth, that also as a place in our future and in our ambition to land on other worlds.

Black Holes: New Horizons

Free entrance
Black holes are extremely twisted regions in space (and in time). Learn the journey of the human reasoning about these mysterious objects, and explore the mechanisms invented to detect them.