IIA Open Day, 02 March 2025
In celebration of National Science Day 2025, IIA organized an Open Day for the general public, which saw more than 5000 visitors.
More about Open Day 2025
IIA SCOPE Seminar Series, 10 February 2025
A public talk on "The Moon, the Other Moon, and Riff-Raff" by Dr. Jayant Murthy at IIA, Koramangala, attended by more than 60 participants both offline and online.
Recorded Seminar
Night Sky Watch, January 2025
With more than 700 visitors over 3 different days, IIA successfully conducted 3 night sky watch programs, one in collaboration with BAS, to show Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter.
Night Sky Watch, 10 Dec 2024
With more than 400 visitors, IIA with BAS successfully conducted a night sky watch program to show Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter.
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India International Science Festival, 30 Nov - 3 Dec 2024
IIA conducted the Curtain Raiser program on 8 November 2024, and set up a stall at IIT Guwahati as part of IISF 2024.
IIA @ Sci560, 26-27 Oct 2024
A set of talks, a quiz and a workshop conducted at Science Gallery Bengaluru as part of the Sci560 Exhibition.
National Space Day, 23 Aug 2024
A celebration of the successful landing of Chandrayaan-3 on the Moon.
The talks of NSpD 2024
To the Moon, 17 Aug 2024
An IIA Public Talk by Dr. Shyama Narendranath (URSC/ISRO) about the Chandrayaan missions and their discoveries.
To the Moon!
Recent results from DESI (Dark Energy) & EHT (Polarisation images), 19 July 2024
A set of 2 public talks at IIA on the nature of Dark Energy, and the image of the black hole.
Talk about DESI and EHT
International Asteroid Day, 29 June 2024
The International Asteroid Day is celebrated annually to mark the anniversary of the Tunguska impact event in Siberia on 30 June 1908. Do they have water? or Diamonds?
Talk on Asteroids
Mysteries of the Sun, 24 May 2024
The solar storms that were generated at the Sun on 8 May, and which hit the Earth on 10-11 May 2024, were the strongest in more than 20 years. In this talk, we will learn how our Sun can generate explosive solar flares, how these can affect everything from satellite communications to power grids on Earth.
Mysteries of the Sun
International Day of Light, 16 May 2024
Take a virtual tour of our Optics Lab on the International Day of Light 2024!
Tour of our Optics Lab
Lunar Occultation of the star Antares, 27 April 2024
The gibbous Moon will pass in front of the bright star Antares just after midnight of 26/27 April.
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Zero Shadow Day, 22 April 2024
The day when vertical objects cast no shadow when the Sun is overhead at local noon.
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Lunar Occultation of Pleiades, 11 April 2024
The dark side of the thin crescent Moon begins moving in front of the stars of Pleiades around 7:00 PM on 11 April in southern India.
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Lunar Watch, 18 Mar 2024
More than 50 members of the public enjoyed looking at the Moon through telescopes, and participated in a lunar quiz. We also projected the Moon's image live on the wall with our camera and collectively identified craters and more.
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Astro-Tourism and Astro-Entrepreneurship in India, 11-12 March 2024
IIA organised a national hybrid conference on astronomy tourism and entrepreneurship in India, attended by more than 70 in-person and 60 remote participants.
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NSD Lecture, 28 Feb 2024
The IIA National Science Day Lecture by Prof. Ajith Parameswaran.
Watch the talk
IIA Open Day, 25 Feb 2024
National Science Day was celebrated as IIA Open Day, which attracted about than 4000 visitors who enjoyed almost 15 different activities across the campus.
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Night Sky Watch, 9 Feb 2024
More than 550 members of the public thronged our campus to look at the planet Jupiter through our telescopes. A quiz and a slideshow on Jupiter were also projected on the walls for everyone to enjoy.
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Night Sky Watch, 24 Jan 2024
More than 60 people came to our campus to enjoy the Moon through our telescopes.
IIA SCOPE Seminar Series, 11 Jan 2024
A talk on "Laghu Manasa Vyakhya: a 17th century commentary on eclipses in Kannada" on 11 Jan at the IIA Auditorium
Lunar Watch, 25 Oct 2023
Watch the moon with us and celebrate the International Observe the Moon Night!
Moon-Venus Occultation, 24 Mar 2023
On 24 March 2023, the Moon passes in front of Venus and will hide or 'occult' it briefly.