On the afternoon of Saturday, May 21 , 2022, an event focused on the theme of light pollution awaits you with the participation of several speakers and the presentation of the book "Cieli Neri - Come l'inquinamento luminoso ci stondo la notte" by Irene Borgna, winner of the Mario Rigoni Stern Prize 2021.

The program will begin at 16:00 at the Teatro Millepini in Asiago.

Free access with reservation required, press on the green buttons below to contact the Asiago IAT.

For access to the Theatre, the FFP2 mask is required.

THE PROGRAM:

We illuminate less, we illuminate better
Lina Tomasella, (INAF)

Presentation of the book "Cieli Neri"
by Irene Borgna, winner of the Mario Rigoni Stern Prize 2021

The physics of interstellar bubbles
Giovanni Benetti

Why is the sky dark (and must remain so)?
Round table with the participation of Patrizia Caraveo (INAF), Andrea Bertolo (ARPAV), Flavio Fusi Pecci (INAF), Sergio Ortolani (UNIPD), Roberto Ragazzoni (INAF)

BLACK SKIES

We are all able to understand what the word "night" means, even if perhaps we have never experienced it. Those who live in the Western world, especially in large cities, are rare to have immersed themselves in an authentic night where the stars have the strength to pierce the black blanket of the sky. Electric light, a great invention that opened the door to thousands of new experiences, has inexorably occupied all the darkness preventing us from living the other side of the day, with all its gifts: the stars, the Milky Way, the sleep/wake rhythm, the poetry of darkness. Irene Borgna, in her hands a map of the European black skies, set off in search of those places that still resist light pollution. From the Maritime Alps to the North Sea, aboard a camper, the author has made a journey to return to live those darkness that were divided by light at the beginning of the world, to understand what it means to pollute the night, to tell us about the economic, anthropological, social, poetic and symbolic aspects of what we could call "an endangered state of mind".

For more information and to book you can contact the IAT Office of Asiago by clicking on the appropriate green button below: