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 […]
STARMUS III
STARMUS III BEYOND THE HORIZON: A TRIBUTE TO STEPHEN HAWKING JUNE 27 TO JULY 2, 2016 CANARY ISLANDS, SPAIN The third STARMUS festival took place in 2016, on Tenerife and La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain. The theme of the third festival was: Beyond The Horizon: A Tribute To Stephen Hawking. As was the case with the […]
STARMUS IV
STARMUS IV LIFE AND THE UNIVERSE JUNE 18 – 23, 2017 TRONDHEIM, NORWAY The fourth STARMUS festival took place in 2017 in Trondheim, Norway. The theme of the fourth festival was: Life and the Universe, and the festival featured eleven Nobel Prize laureates and many astronomers, biologists, chemists, economists, astronauts and artists. Over 2300 delegates […]
STARMUS V
STARMUS V A Giant Leap JUNE 24 – 29, 2019 ZURICH, SWITZERLAND The fifth Starmus Festival took place in 2019, in Zurich, Switzerland. The festival opened with Hans Zimmer’s homage to the Apollo Missions, Once Upon a Time on the Moon. The musical component of the festival also featured Brian May, Rick Wakeman, Steve Vai […]
