AstroLight Festival at Scienceworks

Scienceworks comes alive after-hours for AstroLight Festival with special guests, fun science activities for all ages, and a whole field full of telescopes for stargazing!

• Meet experts from the European Space Agency and Australia’s space industry.
• Experience hands-on activities, and ideas to blow your mind from over 20 astronomy, light, and space science organisations.
• Explore virtual space travel for yourself with Opaque Space’s award-winning virtual reality experience Spacewalk.
• Enjoy Planetarium and Lightning Room shows.
• Satisfy your hunger with intergalactic treats served up from food trucks and the café all night.

Speaker program includes:

• International Space Station flight controller Andrea Boyd and former astronaut trainer Dr Gail Iles discussing human spaceflight and possibilities for our species going beyond the Earth.
• Andrea Boyd and aerospace engineer Dr Naomi Mathers will talk about the new Australian Space Agency and the important role that Australia has to play in this accelerating industry.
• OzGrav researchers Debatri Chattopadhyay, Lucy Strang and Hannah Middleton will enlighten you as they talk about spaghettification, gravitational waves and other exciting developments in astronomy.
• Short and sweet talks in the Energy Lab, covering Indigenous astronomy, the discovery of baby planets, how scientists use light to make the regenerating cells of a zebrafish fluoresce, and more.

Tickets: $12 – 25, and can be purchased from the Musuem Victoria‘s website.

Join the Facebook event or read more about all the activities on the AstroLight blog.

Image credit: Stewie Donn