Astronomical suggestions
The universe...what a story! Bologna, 21 January - 25 February 2025
How big is the universe? What is it made of? Recent discoveries have shown that everything we have studied so far may be less than 5% of what “exists” out there. And…the rest? We have called it “dark matter”, “dark energy”… but we do not know what these “substances” are, however their presence is necessary to describe what we observe. And then, how was this universe born? Are there any others? What was there before the Big Bang? So many questions that Astrophysics attempts to answer, in a fascinating journey to the boundaries of our knowledge.
In collaboration with Fabio Peri
On the way to infinity
- Tuesday 21 January 2025 at 21:00 - 22:30
A journey out into the universe accompanied by the extraordinary images of space probes and telescopes...
Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Pluto… but the universe is much larger than the Solar System, and there is no need for spaceships to reach the most distant galaxies, because it is light itself that brings us precious information about these distant objects.
The journey of science, in reality, has only just begun.
The Dark Side of the Universe
- Tuesday 11 February 2025 at 21:00 - 22:30
Planets, stars, galaxies, black holes, antimatter… are part of the ordinary matter that the known universe is made of. However, it seems that this matter is not sufficient to explain what we observe: much more is needed, but… we can't see it! We have called it dark matter because we don’t know (yet) what it’s made of…
In recent years, another dark component has been hypothesized: a mysterious substance that accelerates the expansion of the universe, a dark energy.
Perhaps we still know very little about what's out there!
In the beginning was... the emptiness!
- Tuesday 25 February 2025 at 21:00 - 22:30
Looking far into space also means looking back in time, to the (current) boundaries of our observations. We have a picture of a baby universe that was only 400,000 years old (today it is almost 14 billion years old) and that... already promised great things!
How did it all start? What came before? Are there other universes? Physics is looking for answers to these questions, discovering surprising and fascinating phenomena.
