Greater than a decade in the past, two creative minds teamed up and launched the Starmus Pageant, a world celebration of science and music. Its creators, astronomer Garik Israelian and astronomer/musician Brian Could, envisioned per week through which anybody might simply attend talks by among the biggest minds on the planet.
I need to share this video of the sixth Starmus Festival, just lately held in Yerevan, Armenia, to point out the unbelievable and distinctive contents of this magical science competition. Talks by astronaut-explorers, Nobel Prize winners, astronomers, chemists, biologists, and lots of extra highlighted an outstanding week like no different. We had greater than 50 audio system altogether.
We placed on a star celebration at a 1,900-year-old Greco-Roman Temple. We held an astroimaging workshop for individuals who need to seize their very own portraits of the evening sky. We shared the great thing about the cosmos with an area crowd of 5,000 and in addition throughout town, with many 1000’s of delighted residents. And we placed on a number of exhibits that turned up the warmth with some wonderful rock ‘n‘ roll.
On behalf of the Starmus Board — Garik Israelian, Brian Could, Richard Dawkins, Jill Tarter, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Peter Gabriel, Tony Fadell, Robert Williams, and me — I need to prolong a fantastic huge thanks for this Starmus expertise, and an invite to Starmus sooner or later.
I ask you to remain tuned for some thrilling developments to return.
—David J. Eicher
Editor of Astronomy and President of the Board of Starmus
