Noites no Observatório

Noites no Observatório invited 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. From November 2015 until February 2020, when it was discontinued, these sessions were organised in partnership with the Planetário Calouste Gulbenkian.

Strange lifeforms

Free entrance
Are there on Earth organisms capable of surviving in the conditions found in other planets of the Solar System? Let's explore the limits of what we can consider as living.

Planets to the sound of the stars

Free entrance
This month, in the session Noites no Observatório, learn how astronomers "listen" to the sound of the stars, and then use that information to characterise with very high detail the planets around them.

Planet Hunter

Free entrance
Let's make a journey through the universe of the telescopes and visit a "planet hunter" instrument, with Alexandre Cabral, of IA.

Closer to the Unreachable

Free entrance
In this session of Noites no Observatório learn about the new horizons in astronomy and the giant telescopes that promise to take us closer to the unreachable.