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Teaching activity planned by Deimer Antonio Alvarez Garay, Alex Ciabattoni, Camilla Giusti ans Elena Tomasetti during the PhD course “Designing innovative public engagement activities”, held at the University of Bologna in 2023. We recognize familiar figures in constellations because of our culture and habits; each people has seen in constellations different objects and characters according to their own roots. Those figures are really the fruit of the only perspective which we have of them from the Earth. If we could look at them from a totally different region of space,LEGGI TUTTO

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Teaching Activity planned by Irene Salmaso and Biagio Ambrosio during the PhD course “Designing innovative public engagement activities”, held at the University of Padua in 2024. Short Description of the Activity What does entropy mean, and how does it work? In this experience, through the use of colours and smells, it will be possible to perceive the different degrees of entropy which exist in more or less disorderly systems, in order to discover how it evolves with time. Materials Blue, red and yellow poster paints 3 food flavourings/different recognizable essentialLEGGI TUTTO

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Teaching activity planned by Leonardo De Deo, Greta Toni and Rachele Toniolo during the PhD course “Designing innovative public engagement activities” held at the University of Padova in 2024. Short description of the Activity Did you know that in the Universe there are objects behaving like clocks? We are talking about pulsars, peculiar stars emitting light pulses with an extremely precise rhythm. However, even the best sometimes miss a beat. In this laboratory, we will play with pulsars and their rhythm, and will discoverir how they are used to studyLEGGI TUTTO

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Teaching activity planned by Stefano Giarratana, Emanuele De Rubeis, Cristina Nanci, Xavier Lopez Lopez and Davide Pellicciari during the Phd course “Designing innovative public engagement activities” held at the University of Bologna in 2023. Short description of the activity: The galaxies which make up our Universe are of various types, each one with a different shape and features. The goals of this activity is discovering the main differences between two particular categories of galaxies: spiral galaxies and elliptical galaxies. Just like astronomers, we will find out which of the two containsLEGGI TUTTO

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Teaching Activity planned by Anita Zanella during the PhD course “Designing innovative public engagement activities”, held at the University of Bologna in 2023. Can we “play” galaxies? Can we listen to black holes? What kind of dances can take place under the stars? With this activity, you will be able to play the beautiful pictures of the Universe which we usually see, and perhaps – why not ? – we can dance, accompanied by the sound of nebulae and planets! Materials   • Edukoi Software (link) • Computer with webcamLEGGI TUTTO

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Teaching activity planned by Ettore Bronzini, Fabrizio Gentile, Greta Toni, and Massimiliano Matteuzzi during the PhD course “Designing innovative public engagement activities”, held at the University of Bologna in 2023. Brief description of the activity: Galaxies, such as many other celestial objects, appear different according to the instrument used to observe them. In this activity, we will fabrics of different texture, so as to represent the various components of one of them, thus making a personal galaxy-pin. Materials • Printouts of the Centaurus A Galaxy in different wavelenghts (if possibleLEGGI TUTTO