AstroTalk. 1986: la scoperta della spugna cosmica

21 March 2026
Pino Torinese
Culture & Tradition

Forty years ago, Margaret Geller and John Huchra, at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, discovered the largest structures ever seen by man: galaxies are not scattered randomly throughout the universe but form a cosmic sponge made up of walls and large voids measuring hundreds of millions of light years.

Even today, we are still trying to understand how and why these gigantic structures formed.

 

Guest: Antonaldo Diaferio, professor at the University of Turin and president of Infini.to.

In addition to participating in the meeting, during the event it will be possible to visit the interactive museum and attend a show inside the digital planetarium.

 

AstroTalk is free with a Museum+Planetarium admission ticket

Hubble ultra deep field - Crediti: NASA e ESA
Infini.to - Planetario di Torino
Via Osservatorio 30, Pino Torinese
Ttp Torino Piemonte Card

Torino+​Piemonte Card

Free

The venues

Infini.to - Planetario di Torino, Museo dell'Astronomia e dello Spazio "Attilio Ferrari"