Diana Franco
Diana Franco Music and Stars. Patience and care. Sincerity and enthusiasm. Heart and resonance. These are the words that come to my mind when I think of Garik Israelian, the mind behind Starmus. Starmus is a time of magic encounters and joy. A space where stars become music. An explosion of inspiration. An exchange of […]
Kathryn Gray
Kathryn Gray A Life-Time Influenced by Starmus. Since I was a child, I’ve always loved the night sky, the ever-dark silk with diamonds twinkling up above the world so high. Perhaps I have my father to thank for that as he is an amateur astronomer and a lover of deep space photography. I grew up […]
Richard Hargrave
Richard Hargrave Starmus changed my life. It really did! It started in February 2011 at an event in London called Astrofest. An announcement was made by Brian May & Garik Israelian about a new event bringing Stars and Music together. It sounded quite like something I should go to! I went straight away and put […]
Sonic Universe Concert
Science and art are two ways of exploring the world, and they are all the more powerful when they are combined. The Sonic Universe concerts feature artists who use music to talk about space and speak about science
Discover the Cosmos and change the world!
Discover the Cosmos and Change the World is a conference featuring high-impact researchers and scientists from different fields. Starmus was designed as a space for sharing and obtaining knowledge from top professionals in order to apply this knowledge in real life.
108 minutes Round Table
The very first Starmus (2011) was a tribute to the first manned space flight and the person who performed it, Yuri Gagarin. It lasted exactly 108 minutes, probably the most crucial 108 minutes in the history of mankind.
The Star Party
Star Parties are organised near observatories or high up in the mountains where the participants can connect with the stars and “listen to their voice”.
Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communication
Under the name of the greatest scientist of the 20th and early 21st centuries, Stephen Hawking, and sponsored by Starmus, the most ambitious Science festival of all time, the Stephen Hawking Science Medal is a prestigious award which recognizes the merit of popular science on an international level.
STARMUS I
STARMUS I 50 YEARS OF MAN IN SPACE JUNE 20–25, 2011 CANARY ISLANDS, SPAIN The first Starmus Festival took place in 2011, on Tenerife and La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. The primary site of the event was the Ritz-Carlton Abama Hotel in Tenerife. The theme was “50 Years of Man in Space,” and featured as […]
STARMUS II
STARMUS II BEGINNINGS: THE MAKING OF THE MODERN COSMOS SEPTEMBER 22–27, 2014 CANARY ISLANDS, SPAIN The second Starmus Festival took place in 2014, on Tenerife and La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. Talks at Starmus II included Nobel Prize winning astronomer Robert Wilson describing his joint discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation; Astronomy Magazine Editor […]