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International Year of Astronomy

IYA2009 Events

    • 15-16 January 2009: "Opening Ceremony"
    • 19-23 January 2009: “Role of astronomy in culture and society
    • 16-18 March 2009: GLOBE at Night 2009
    • 2-5 April 2009: "100 Hours of Astronomy"
    • 3 April to 23 October 2009: Every Friday: The Evenings of the "Observatoire de Paris"
    • 19-23 April 2009: Space education workshop for secondary students and teachers (Syria)
    • 10-11 March 2009: International Workshop and Expert Meeting on Starlight Reserves and World Heritage (Fuenteventura, Spain) (More)
    • 25-27 March 2009: All-Russia Conference "Astronomy and Society" (More
    • 13-14 May 2009: International Space education workshop for secondary students and teachers (Ecuador)
    • 14-16 May 2009: Pilot teacher-training in astronomy (Ecuador)
    • 16-17 May 2009: "Star Party"
    • 18-22 May 2009: International Space education workshop for secondary students and teachers (Peru)
    • 20-22 May 2009: pilot teacher-training workshop in astronomy (Peru)
    • 23 June - 22 november: "Cosmos" Exhibition
    • 29 June–10 July 2009: “Univers invisible
    • 12-18 July 2009: Twelfth Marcel Grossmann Meeting
    • 22 July 2009: 21st century longuest solar Eclipse (broadcast)
    • 17-26 July 2009: International Youth Camp on Astronomy and World Heritage (More)
    • 19-24 August 2009: International Conference: Astronomy and World Heritage: Across Time and Continents (More
    • 18-20 Sept. 2009: Astronomy Camp on the Megalithic Observatory of Kokino (More)
    • 29-30 Sept. 2009: Astrophysics & Astrodynamics in the Balkan countries (More)
    • 5-11 Oct. 2009: South Eastern European Practical School on Spectroscopy for Young Researchers (More)
    • 22-24 Oct. 2009: Galilean Nights (More)
    • 28-29 Oct. 2009: International workshop "Recent Insights into our Universe"
    • 28 Sept. - 16 November 2009: "Gazing at the stars" (More)
    • 1st week of December 2009: “Space and astronomy”
    • 9-10 January 2010: "Astronomy, Beyond 2009" (More)

     

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    • 04-01-2010
    Astronomy Beyond 2009
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    • 21-10-2009
    Galilean Nights: 22 - 24 October 2009
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    • 20-10-2009
    Galilean Nights
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    • 04-10-2009
    South Eastern European Practical School on Spectroscopy for Young Researchers
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    • 23-09-2009
    Astrophysics & Astrodynamics in the Balkan Countries
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    • 23-09-2009
    International symposium “Astronomy and its Instruments. Before and After Galileo”
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    • 16-09-2009
    Astronomy Camp on the Megalithic Observatory Site of Kokino
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    • 31-08-2009
    Second Iberoamerica Graduate School of Astrobiology: Origins from the Big Bang to Civilizations
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    • 22-07-2009
    21st Century longest solar eclipse
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    • 16-07-2009
    Mission to Mars
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    • 16-07-2009
    "Cosmos" - a journey to the ends of the Universe
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    • 15-07-2009
    12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting
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    • 01-07-2009
    The essential is invisible to our eyes
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    • 29-06-2009
    George Fitzgerald Smoot, Nobel laureat in physics
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    • 29-06-2009
    Dark Side of the Universe: Toward a New Cosmological Paradigm
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    • 25-06-2009
    “Invisible Universe”
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    • 15-05-2009
    Star Party in Meudon
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    • 05-03-2009
    GLOBE at Night 2009
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    • 19-01-2009
    The Rôle of Astronomy in Society and Culture
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    • 10-01-2009
    Press Conference: Launch of the International Year of Astronomy
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    • 09-01-2009
    Astronomy at the Crossroads of Science and Culture
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    • 23-12-2008
    Opening Ceremony: IYA2009
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    • 16-12-2008
    Catherine Cesarsky : This is the golden age of astronomy
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